Fulminant meningococcal sepsis in a woman with previously unknown hyposplenism

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Shah, Anita ^a   Lettieri, Christopher J ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; BICARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HAPTOGLOBIN; INSULIN; LACTIC ACID; NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN; PROTHROMBIN; STEROID; THROMBOPLASTIN; VANCOMYCIN; VASOPRESSIN; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ACIDEMIA; ACROCYANOSIS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTALLOID; DEATH; DETERIORATION; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PATIENT CARE; PH; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RASH; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RESUSCITATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SOMNOLENCE; SPLEEN DISEASE; TACHYCARDIA; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; SPLENIC DISEASES; WATERHOUSE-FRIDERICHSEN SYNDROME;

EID: 41549130332     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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