Secondary hemophagocytic syndrome in a patient with methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia due to severe decubitus ulcer

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 303-307

  Ito, Shigenori ^a   Takada, Norio ^a   Ozasa, Atsushi ^a   Hanada, Mayumi ^a   Sugiyama, Masaya ^a   Suzuki, Kaoru ^a   Nagae, Yuji ^a   Inagaki, Toshiaki ^a   Suzuki, Yayoi ^a   Komatsu, Hirokazu ^b  

^a Moriyama Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Decubitus ulcer; Hemophagocytosis; Methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus; Pancytopenia; Poliomyelitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METICILLIN; NAFAMSTAT MESILATE; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DEBRIDEMENT; DECUBITUS; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HIP DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERALIMENTATION; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; MALNUTRITION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PANCYTOPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLIOMYELITIS; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; BONE MARROW; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATAL OUTCOME; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE ULCER; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33645658383     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1535     Document Type: Article

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