Severe intra-abdominal infection due to Streptococcus Milleri following adjustable gastric banding

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 576-579

  Stelzmueller, Ingrid ^a   Hoeller, Elisabeth ^a   Wiesmayr, Silke ^a   Kafka, Reinhold ^a   Aigner, Franz ^a   Weiss, Helmut ^a   Bonatti, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adjustable gastric banding; Intra abdominal infection; Laparoscopy; Morbid obesity; Streptococcus Milleri

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERTAPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TETRAHYDROLIPSTATIN; TIGECYCLINE;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON PERFORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GASTRIC BANDING; HUMAN; MORBID OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MILLERI; WEIGHT GAIN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; BODY MASS INDEX; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRAINAGE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC BALLOON; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; PENICILLANIC ACID; PIPERACILLIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS MILLERI GROUP;

EID: 18044385157     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/0960892053723448     Document Type: Article

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