Lethal end of meningococcal sepsis - The Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome;Letaler verlauf einer meningokokkensepsis - Das Waterhouse-Friderichsen-syndrom

Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 243-247

  Koch, Mathias ^a   Blank, Ralf ^a   Hansen, Torsten ^b   Auerbach, Holger ^a   Von Mengden, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disseminated intravascular coagulation; Meningococcal sepsis; Septic shock; Waterhouse Friderichsen syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEVER; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LETHALITY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; SEPTIC SHOCK; SOMNOLENCE;

EID: 2942597747     PISSN: 01753851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00390-004-0474-8     Document Type: Article

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