infectious diseases
Candidiasis
Symptoms and Signs of Invasive Candidiasis
Esophageal candidiasisis most often manifested by dysphagia. usually causes fever, but symptoms are nonspecific. Some patients develop a syndrome resembling Sepsis and Septic Shock , with a fulminating course that may include shock, oliguria, acute kidney injury, and Candidal endophthalmitisstarts as white retinal lesions that are initially asymptomatic but can progress, opacifying the vitreous and causing potentially irreversible scarring and blindness. In neutropenic patients, retinal hemorrhages occasionally occur, but actual infection of the eye is rare. Papulonodular skin lesions may also develop, especially in neutropenic patients, in whom they indicate widespread hematogenous dissemination to other organs. Symptoms of other focal or invasive infection depend on the organ involved. 