Clostridium septicum aortitis causing aortic dissection in a 22-year-old man

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 334-336

  Yang, Zhaohai ^a   Reilly, Stephanie D ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic rupture microbiology; Aortitis complications diagnosis etiology microbiology; Clostridium infections complications mortality therapy; Fatal outcome; Rupture, spontaneous

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; HEPARIN; LACTIC ACID; MYOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA ROOT; AORTA THROMBOSIS; AORTITIS; ARTERIAL INSUFFICIENCY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM SEPTICUM; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FAMILY HISTORY; HEMOPERICARDIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; HYPERTENSION; ILIAC ARTERY; INFERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; KIDNEY INFARCTION; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LONG TERM CARE; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; RESUSCITATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANEURYSM, INFECTED; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTITIS; AORTOGRAPHY; AUTOPSY; CLOSTRIDIUM SEPTICUM; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69749100635     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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