Hepatic failure with Providencia rettgeri infection: case report

Abstract Background Providencia rettgeri is an uncommon opportunistic pathogen of nosocomial infection in humans. It often occurs in urinary tract infection and skin damage.Few reports find providencia rettgeri infection in a hepatic failure patient. Case presentation: A 29 years old man admitted to us with crushing injury by a falling objects in construction site, which caused hepatorrhexis and hepatic failure .In the therapy period of infective intensive care unit (ICU), the patient got tracheal intubation to support breath and the rinse of fiber bronchoscopy cultured providencia rettgeri . Conclusions Providencia rettgeri is associated with the patients with totally terribble health conditionos, like post-enormous sugeries,large area skin burn and liver failure and so on. Few clincal cases also find the patients with assisted ventilation get infected with providencia rettgeri. And due to the pathogen’s character of antimicrobial resistance,it rasies mortality and prolongs recovery time. Thereafter,attention should be taken to those patients in their recovery period.