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This article describes the findings of autopsy patients with postmortem candidaemia and it compares them with findings in autopsy patients with antemortem candidaemia.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Method<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      23 patients with\n                      <jats:italic>Candida<\/jats:italic>\n                      species isolated from heart blood at autopsy were identified over a 10-year period. These patients were compared with 10 autopsy patients found during the same time period with antemortem blood cultures isolating\n                      <jats:italic>Candida<\/jats:italic>\n                      species, but not positive postmortem heart blood cultures. Antemortem and postmortem records were reviewed.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      All 23 patients with\n                      <jats:italic>Candida<\/jats:italic>\n                      species isolated from postmortem blood culture had one or more antemortem risk factors for disseminated candidiasis, such as positive antemortem blood cultures, isolation of\n                      <jats:italic>Candida<\/jats:italic>\n                      from sterile internal sites, neutropenia, recent abdominal surgery, broad-spectrum antibiotic administration or the use of central venous catheters or other invasive devices. Eight patients showed histological proof of invasive candidiasis in addition to the positive heart blood cultures. This group did not differ with respect to risk factors from 10 autopsy patients with disseminated candidiasis and antemortem blood cultures with\n                      <jats:italic>Candida<\/jats:italic>\n                      species. However, all the patients with antemortem candidaemia had histological evidence of disseminated candidiasis at autopsy.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Candidaemia, when documented by heart blood culture performed at autopsy or by antemortem blood culture, is an insensitive, but highly specific, indicator of disseminated candidiasis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/jcp.2009.070607","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,11,25]],"date-time":"2009-11-25T23:50:32Z","timestamp":1259193032000},"page":"337-340","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["Postmortem candidaemia: marker of disseminated disease"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"63","author":[{"given":"Jennifer L","family":"Thorn","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kevin B","family":"Gilchrist","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Richard E","family":"Sobonya","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nand K","family":"Gaur","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Peter N","family":"Lipke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Stephen A","family":"Klotz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,11,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025112110110635000_63.4.337.1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/clinids\/14.1.340"},{"key":"2025112110110635000_63.4.337.2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1086\/380796"},{"key":"2025112110110635000_63.4.337.3","first-page":"20","article-title":"Systemic candidiasis in cancer patients","volume":"77","author":"Maksymiuk","year":"1984","journal-title":"Am J Med"},{"key":"2025112110110635000_63.4.337.4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1001\/archinte.1965.03870020106019"},{"key":"2025112110110635000_63.4.337.5","unstructured":"Edwards JEJ . 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