Ischemic changes and blood coagulation abnormalities as complications of pneumococcal meningitis

Cerebrovascular Complications of Pediatric Pneumococcal Meningitis in the PCV13 Era.

A previously healthy, full-term 5-month-old girl presented to the emergency department with a 1-day history of fever to 103°F, emesis, poor feeding, and progressive lethargy. She had recently started day care. The patient had received her routine 2and 4-month childhood vaccines on schedule, including the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13). Initial examination revealed decreased re...

Clinical Implications of Acquired Blood Coagulation Abnormalities.

C OMPLEX ALTERATION of blood coagulation occurs in the course of a number of systemic disorders. In contrast to the congenital defects of hemnostasis which are usually characterized by a single clotting factor deficiency, the changes which may accompany acquired disease are characteristicallv multiple. These multiple defects tend to form typical patterns which reflect the physiologic abnormalit...

Changes in blood coagulation.

Blood coagulation abnormalities in multibacillary leprosy patients

BACKGROUND Leprosy is a chronic dermato-neurological disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae infection. In 2016, more than 200,000 new cases of leprosy were detected around the world, representing the most frequent cause of infectious irreversible deformities and disabilities. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS In the present work, we demonstrate a consistent procoagulant profile on 40 reactional and non-reac...

Observations on Pneumococcal Meningitis as a Complication of Kala-Azar