Diffuse cerebral petechial hemorrhage in an 8-year-old girl with MRSA pneumonia and sepsis
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Diffuse cerebral petechial hemorrhage in an 8-year-old girl with MRSA pneumonia and sepsis.
An 8-year-old girl in septic shock due to necrotizing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pneumonia developed signs of end-organ damage, new right hemiplegia, and left gaze preference. Susceptibility-weighted MRI demonstrated extensive multifocal petechial hemorrhage preferentially at the gray-white matter interface due to septic microemboli (figure). Mechanisms of hemorrhage inc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000000039