Massive intravascular haemolysis in a patient with clostridium perfringens sepsis [3]

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 214-

  Jimenez, M ^a   Sanz, Cristina ^a   Alvarez, A ^a   Pereira, A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE; SIALIDASE; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEVER; GRAM STAINING; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR HEMOLYSIS; LETTER; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PANCREAS TUMOR; PEANUT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SIALYLATION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; URINALYSIS; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

AGED; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0036588975     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1423-0410.2002.00174.x     Document Type: Letter

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