A Case of fulminant peritonitis caused by Streptococcus mitis in a patient on peritoneal dialysis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 471-474

  Mizuno, Masashi ^a   Ito, Yasuhiko ^a   Masuda, Tomohiro ^a   Toda, Susumu ^a   Hiramatsu, Hideki ^a   Suzuki, Yasuhiro ^a   Ozaki, Takenori ^a   Yasuda, Yoshinari ^a   Ito, Isao ^a   Tsuboi, Naotake ^a   Sato, Waichi ^a   Maruyama, Shoichi ^a   Imai, Enyu ^a   Matsuo, Seiichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fulminant peritonitis; Peritoneal dialysis; Streptococcus mitis

Indexed keywords

AZTREONAM; CLINDAMYCIN; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; PREDNISOLONE; RNA 16S; STEROID; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BULLOUS PEMPHIGOID; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; DIALYSATE; DIARRHEA; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; FULMINANT PERITONITIS; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; OXYGEN MASK; OXYGEN SATURATION; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHOCK; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; TREATMENT DURATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS, CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY; PERITONITIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS;

EID: 79952329089     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.4122     Document Type: Article

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