Acute Hemolysis in the Emergency Department: Think aboutClostridium perfringens!
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Acute Hemolysis in the Emergency Department: Think about Clostridium perfringens!
Clostridium perfringens (CP) gives several clinical settings, from an asymptomatic to a massive intravascular hemolysis. We report a case of fatal intravascular hemolysis due to CP septicemia having a hepatic supposed starting point in the emergency department. Like in many cases, the diagnosis was made when patient had already gone into shock and died. The CP septicemia often complicated the c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Emergency Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2090-648X,2090-6498
DOI: 10.1155/2013/948071