Intrauterine fetal demise due to streptococcal toxic shock syndrome: A case report

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 226-228

  Ishiguro, T ^a   Matsushita, H ^a   Yanase, T ^a   Kurabayashi, T ^a   Yoshida, S ^a   Iinuma, Y ^a  

^a NIIGATA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pregnancy; Streptococcus pyogenes; Superantigen; Toxic shock syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; D DIMER; DANAPAROID; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROCORTISONE; MEROPENEM; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXIN 1;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CASE REPORT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; FEVER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PREGNANCY; PULSE RATE; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; STILLBIRTH; STREPTOCOCCAL TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 77958037830     PISSN: 03906663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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