Kumar A
Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Manitoba, Canada.
South Med J. 1994 Jun;87(6):669-71. doi: 10.1097/00007611-199406000-00019.
Significant hemorrhage from esophageal candidiasis in patients without a major bleeding diathesis is extremely uncommon. A case of recurrent, severe upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to hemorrhagic candidal esophagitis in a man with renal failure is described. Dysphagia, odynophagia, and retrosternal chest discomfort were all absent. Oral thrush was present only at the outset. Standard therapy for massive bleeding with blood products alone was not successful. Intravenous amphotericin eventually resulted in resolution.
