Vibrio parahemolyticus septicaemia in a liver transplant patient: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Fernando, Rajeev R ^a   Krishnan, Sujatha ^a   Fairweather, Morgan G ^a   Ericsson, Charles D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CREATININE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEMOGLOBIN; INFUSION FLUID; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTIC ACID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLISTER; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CHILL; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; EMERGENCY WARD; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEVER; FOOT ULCER; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTUBATION; LEG PAIN; LEG SWELLING; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEXICO; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SKIN NECROSIS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VOMITING;

EID: 79955652320     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-5-171     Document Type: Article

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