A case of overwhelming postsplenectomy infection (OPSI) with chronic hepatitis type C during peginterferon/ribavirin combination therapy

Journal of Japanese Society of Gastroenterology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 411-417

  Okamura, Shusuke ^c   Sakai, Terufumi ^c   Yoshikai, Hiroshi ^c   Sumie, Hiroaki ^c   Narita, Kozaburou ^c   Karashima, Taku ^c   Maeyama, Yasuhiko ^a   Higaki, Koichi ^a   Ide, Tatsuya ^c   Sata, Michio ^b  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEGINTERFERON; RIBAVIRIN; ALPHA2A INTERFERON; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; PEGINTERFERON ALFA-2A; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2A; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; AUTOPSY; BLOOD CULTURE; CANCER THERAPY; CASE REPORT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUTROPENIA; SEPSIS; SPLENECTOMY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; FATALITY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INTERFERON ALFA-2A; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RIBAVIRIN; SEPSIS; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 71949093491     PISSN: 04466586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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