Fatal fungemia resulting from an infected transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt stent

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 709-710

  Schiano, Thomas D ^a   Atillasoy, Evren ^a   Fiel, M Isabel ^a   Wolf, David C ^a   Jaffe, David ^a   Cooper, James M ^a   Jonas, Mark E ^a   Bodenheimer Jr , Henry C ^a   Min, Albert D ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FUNGEMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFECTION COMPLICATION; MALE; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT;

AGED; BACTEREMIA; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FATAL OUTCOME; FUNGEMIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0030995979     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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