Intravascular coagulation in meningococcal septicaemia

Widespread bone infarction complicating meningococcal septicaemia and disseminated intravascular coagulation.

Disseminated intravascular coagulation in meningococcal infection.

Coagulation in Meningococcal Infection Sir, The description by Fox in the recent issue of the Archives (October 1971) of histological evidence of widespread intravascular coagulation in 13 patients dying of the Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (with proved meningococcal septicaemia in two) and his suggestion that heparin should be used in such patients, prompts us to report the following patient:-

Meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia.

Neisseria meningitidis accounted for over half the 2,360 notified cases of meningitis in England and Wales in 19971 and is the leading infectious cause of death in childhood2–4. There were twice as many notifications of meningococcal disease in 1997 as in 1994 and the mortality remained at around 10% (ca 240 deaths)1,2. This article focuses on the presentation and management of meningococcal di...

Heparin therapy in meningococcal septicaemia.

Hunter, J. (1973). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 48, 233. Heparin therapy in meningococcal septicaemia. Two cases of meningococcaemia with bad prognostic signs are presented. In one child a state of disseminated intravascular coagulation and defibrinogenation was established. Heparin therapy was used early and successfully in both cases, supporting the value of early anticoagulation in the ...

Subacute Inflammatory Arthritis Following Intravascular Coagulation Syndrome

Un nourisson de six mois a ete hospitalise dans le .,ervice de pediatrie du C.H.U. de Logmandolhe-Adham pour: deshydratation, etat septique, acidose metabolique, troubles circulatoires des membres avec gangrene de la main droite.  Le syndrome de la coagulation intra-vasculaire disse­minee (CID) a ete rapidernent confirme par l'etude de la erase sanguine. Soumis a un traitement par: solutes 6le...