DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2022.v10i10.029

Pages: 1758-1760

Mycelial sepsis or fungal sepsis is a rare cause of acute renal failure. Candida albicans is the most frequently incriminated fungus. We report a case of acute renal failure and mycelial sepsis diagnosed in the nephrology department of the Point ''G'' university hospital center in Bamako, Mali, the purpose of this work of which is to describe the severity and the urgency of taking responsible for this rare pathology. It was a 30-year-old patient who was hospitalized for recently discovered kidney failure in a pregnancy of around seven months. The appearance of fever, headache and abdominal pain and the HELLP syndrome to motivate a caesarean section with a stillborn child. Faced with the persistence of fever, a blood culture was performed with evidence of candida parapsilosis, the germ responsible for mycelia sepsis. An antifungal treatment was initiated with a good clinical and biological evolution.