Toxic shock syndrome.

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  • R W Tofte
  • D N Williams
چکیده

Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is an exotoxin-mediated illness that occurs primarily in young menstruating women who use tampons. The syndrome ranges from a potentially fatal disease characterized by hypotension and failure in multiple organ systems to a less severe condition commonly misdiagnosed as a nonspecific viral illness or gastroenteritis. Physicians should recognize that an exanthematous, febrile illness that recurs during menstruation or that occurs primarily in the postoperative or postpartum period and in association with staphylococcal infections may be TSS even in the absence of requisite diagnostic criteria. Unless TSS can be excluded with reasonable certainty, appropriate cultures should be obtained, with treatment initiated presumptively. In all menstrual cases, women should be advised to avoid tampon use indefinitely.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Postgraduate medicine

دوره 73 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1981