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Imaging Findings in a Case of Bacteremia Caused by Non-Typhoidal Salmonella Associated with a Congenital Venous Malformation

Takashi Tani^1,2, Erika (Senda) Miyake², Kenta Sugino^1,2, Kazumasa Hashimoto^1,2, Tetsuya Kashiwagi¹, Yukinao Sakai¹ and Masato Iwabu¹

¹Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
²Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Rinkai Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Non-typhoidal Salmonella infection is a typical food-poisoning disease, which rarely causes bacteremia, except in immunocompromised individuals. We report the case of a healthy adult in whom a varicose vein associated with a lower-leg venous malformation was considered the source of Salmonella bacteremia.

J Nippon Med Sch 2022; 89: 570-571

Keywords
non-typhoidal Salmonella, vein malformation, varicose vein, bacteremia

Correspondence to
Takashi Tani, Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8602, Japan
tani@nms.ac.jp

Received, July 10, 2022
Accepted, September 28, 2022