Massive intravascular hemolysis: A fatal complication of clostridium perfringens septicemia in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2157-2159

  Vaiopoulos, George ^a   Calpadaki, Christin ^a   Sinifakoulis, Haris ^a   Konstantopoulos, Kostas ^a   Avlami, Athina ^a   Stefanou, Joanna ^a   Pangalis, Gerassimos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute leukemia; Clostridium; Hemolysis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; TIMENTIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANURIA; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BLOOD CYTOLOGY; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DESCENDING AORTA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTRAVASCULAR HEMOLYSIS; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SPHEROCYTOSIS;

AGED; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; SEPSIS;

EID: 4544298916     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10428190410001697331     Document Type: Article

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