Asplenic fulminant sepsis secondary to a dog bite complicated by toxic epidermal necrolysis/Stevens-Johnson syndrome

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 125, Issue 1358, 2012, Pages 74-77

  Teo, Ken G ^a   Anavekar, Namrata S ^a   Yazdabadi, Anosha ^b   Ricketts, Sophie ^a  

^a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INOTROPIC AGENT; LINCOMYCIN; MEROPENEM; METARAMINOL; METRONIDAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPLENIC FULMINANT SEPSIS; BLISTER; BLOOD CULTURE; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA CANIMORSUS; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA CANIMORSUS INFECTION; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CASE REPORT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DOG BITE; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GANGRENE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; LEG AMPUTATION; MORTALITY; MOUTH ULCER; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OROPHARYNX; PUNCH BIOPSY; PURPURA; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEPTICEMIA; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TISSUE NECROSIS; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; DOGS; EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS, TOXIC; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GANGRENE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; SEPSIS; SPLENECTOMY; STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME;

EID: 84865009863     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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