Case 25-2010: A 24-year-old woman with abdominal pain and shock

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 363, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 766-777

  Klempner, Mark S ^a,b   Talbot, Elizabeth A ^e,f   Lee, Susanna I ^c,d   Zaki, Sherif ^g   Ferraro, Mary Jane ^c,d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; CRYOGLOBULIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERTAPENEM; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; KETOROLAC TROMETAMOL; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; MICAFUNGIN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PERAMIVIR; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTHRAX; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS HEMOFILTRATION; COUGHING; CRYSTALLOID; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE NECROSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROTOMY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NAUSEA; PARACENTESIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; RESTLESSNESS; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANIMAL; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENTEROPATHY; HEMATOMA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MUSIC; SKIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANIMALS; ASCITES; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; INTESTINAL DISEASES; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; MUSIC; SHOCK; SKIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955872460     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1003887     Document Type: Article

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