Case of scrub typhus complicated by severe disseminated intravascular coagulation and death

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 577-580

  Ono, Yuko ^a   Ikegami, Yukihiro ^a   Tasaki, Kazuhiro ^a   Abe, Masahumi ^a   Tase, Choichiro ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute renal failure; Autopsy; Disseminated intravascular coagulation; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Scrub typhus

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN; CEFDINIR; CEFTRIAXONE; GABEXATE MESILATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; DEATH; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS; VASCULITIS;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 84867326940     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2012.01600.x     Document Type: Article

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