A case report of thrombocytopenia-associated multiple organ failure secondary to salmonella enterica serotype typhi infection in a pediatric patient: Successful treatment with plasma exchange

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 226-229

  Yildirim, Inci ^a   Ceyhan, Mehmet ^b   Bayrakci, Benan ^b   Uysal, Mutlu ^b   Kuskonmaz, Baris ^b   Ozaltin, Fatih ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Children; Plasma exchange; Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi; Thrombocytopenia associated multiple organ failure

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMIKACIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOPAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; ISOPRENALINE; MEROPENEM; TEICOPLANIN;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; ECHOGRAPHY; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETHARGY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; THORACOCENTESIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA ASSOCIATED MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TYPHOID FEVER;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PLASMA EXCHANGE; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 77950264390     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2009.00714.x     Document Type: Article

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