Fatal pneumococcal Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome in a vaccinated adult with congenital asplenia

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 751.e3-751.e5

  Vincentelli, Cristina ^a   Molina, Enrique G ^a   Robinson, Morton J ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; HYDROCORTISONE; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; ADRENAL NECROSIS; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASPLENIA; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING RATE; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHITIS; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNIZATION; INTESTINE SOUND; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUNG FIBROSIS; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MOUTH TEMPERATURE; NEPHROSCLEROSIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OXYGEN SATURATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SEPSIS; SHOCK; STEATOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SUDDEN DEATH; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VOMITING;

EID: 67649990596     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2008.09.042     Document Type: Article

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