Lemierre's syndrome followed by acute respiratory distress syndrome successfully rescued by antibiotics and hemoperfusion with polymyxin b-immobilized fiber

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-136

  Takazono, Takahiro ^a,b   Izumikawa, Koichi ^b   Tsurutani, Junji ^a   Tanaka, Akitaka ^a   Kakugawa, Tomoyuki ^a   Fukuda, Yuichi ^a   Saito, Masataka ^a   Kurihara, Shintaro ^b   Imamura, Yoshifumi ^b   Seki, Masafumi ^b   Kakeya, Hiroshi ^b   Yamamoto, Yoshihiro ^b   Yanagihara, Katsunori ^b   Kohno, Shigeru ^b  

^a Kitakyushu City Yakata Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFMETAZOLE; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CLINDAMYCIN; HEPARIN; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; POLYMYXIN B; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS HEMODIAFILTRATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FEVER; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HEMOPERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTENSION; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LEMIERRE SYNDROME; LETHARGY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG NODULE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PULSE RATE; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SORE THROAT; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TONSILLITIS; BLOOD; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JUGULAR VEIN; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HEMOPERFUSION; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; POLYMYXIN B; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; THROMBOPHLEBITIS;

EID: 66849118889     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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