[Orointestinal candidiasis with special emphasis on esophageal candidiasis].

Orointestinal mycoses are localized mainly in the oral cavity and in the oesophagus. Candida oesophagitis is not only found in AIDS-patients, also in patients of risk admitted to intensive care units. Upper intestinoscopies were made in 124 patients. Oesophageal candidosis was found in 6 patients, two of them had also Candida plaques in the stomach. The patients of the intensive care unit had an Apache-II-score of 26.7, those with Candida oesophagitis were 29.5. A significant increase in Candida antibodies was observed with 59 of 124 patients (47.6%), including all patients with oesophageal candidosis. Obviously also Candida infections of other localisations must be suspected. There was a correlation between the severity of endoscopic aspects and the invasiveness observed microscopically.