Case report: Escherichia coli septic shock masquerading as ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 102-105

  Martinez, Juan D ^a   Babu, Rajesh V ^a   Sharma, Gulshan ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac enzymes; ECG; Myocardial infarction; Septic shock; ST segment elevation; Troponin

Indexed keywords

LEVOFLOXACIN; TROPONIN C; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TROPONIN I;

EID: 64849102279     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2009.03.1981     Document Type: Article

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