Fulminant septic shock due to Clostridium perfringens skin and soft tissue infection eight years after liver transplantation

Annals of Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 143-146

  Juntermanns, Benjamin ^a   Radunz, Sonia ^a   Heuer, Matthias ^a   Vernadakis, Spiridon ^a   Henning, Reis ^a   Gallinat, Anja ^a   Treckmann, Jürgen ^a   Kaiser, Gernot M ^a   Paul, Andreas ^a   Saner, Fuat H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clostridium perfringens; Gas gangrene; Liver transplantation; Multiple organ failure; Skin and soft tissue infection

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; IMIPENEM; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS INFECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GAS GANGRENE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION;

EID: 80054865208     PISSN: 14259524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/AOT.882009     Document Type: Article

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