نتایج جستجو برای: meningococcemia
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This study was conducted to elucidate the magnitude of problem and the clinical course of invasive meningococcal infection from 13 government hospitals in Thailand between 1994 and 1999. Thirty-six strains of Neisseria meningitidis were isolated from 16 blood and 24 cerebrospinal fluid specimens; 4 patients had positive culture in both blood and CSF. Of the 16 strains, 9 (56.3%) were serogroup ...
The case is described of an 18-year-old schoolboy who developed pericarditis during the course of meningococcal meningitis; he had evidence of a preceding chronic meningococcaemia. Good recovery followed on systemic antibiotics only. The pericarditis was probably a direct septic complication of meningococcal meningitis.
Septic adrenal hemorrhage is classically caused by meningococcemia. An autopsied case is presented of a 45-year-old man with adrenal hemorrhage due to Klebsiella oxytoca bacteremia following placement of a central venous catheter. He died 5 hours after developing disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). The bacterial entry site may have been the catheter. The cause of death was considered ...
A preliminary report of this case study was first published in April 2000 in the Nursing Times (Dunford, 2000). It had a huge impact and was immediately picked up by the media. The fact that such a natural agent as honey could be responsible for healing such devastating lesions in a young adult so badly affected by meningococcal septicaemia made it newsworthy. There followed numerous national a...
Invasive meningococcal infections show a broad clinical picture in sepsis and meningitis. The clinical reports of the disease do not include diarrhea as an initial clinical presentation, since it is only seldom reported. Here is a description of two cases of meningococcal infection with diarrhea as the main initial clinical manifestation and posterior emergence of the classical signs and symptoms.
We report a case of meningococcemia in a 49-year old woman, who was admitted to the Second Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care of the IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo of Pavia (Italy) because of an altered mental status and widespread petechiae. The day before she felt sleepy and dizzy; in the following hours she experienced a severe clinical deterioration with fever, general pain, confusio...
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