Septic Shock due to Vibrio alginolyticus in a Cirrhotic Patient: The First Case in Korea

We describe a case of septic shock due to Vibrio alginolyticus presenting with fever and bilateral leg pain. Despite intensive management with antibiotics and inotropic agents, the patient died from septic shock 1 day after hospitalization. V. alginolyticus was isolated from both leg wounds and a bl...

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Autores principales: Lee, Dong-Young, Moon, Soo-Youn, Lee, Sang-Oh, Yang, Hee-Young, Lee, Hee-Joo, Lee, Mi Suk
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Publicado: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2615326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18452273
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2008.49.2.329
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author Lee, Dong-Young
Moon, Soo-Youn
Lee, Sang-Oh
Yang, Hee-Young
Lee, Hee-Joo
Lee, Mi Suk
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Moon, Soo-Youn
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description We describe a case of septic shock due to Vibrio alginolyticus presenting with fever and bilateral leg pain. Despite intensive management with antibiotics and inotropic agents, the patient died from septic shock 1 day after hospitalization. V. alginolyticus was isolated from both leg wounds and a blood culture. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of V. alginolyticus bacteremia in Korea.
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spelling pubmed-26153262009-02-02 Septic Shock due to Vibrio alginolyticus in a Cirrhotic Patient: The First Case in Korea Lee, Dong-Young Moon, Soo-Youn Lee, Sang-Oh Yang, Hee-Young Lee, Hee-Joo Lee, Mi Suk Yonsei Med J Case Report We describe a case of septic shock due to Vibrio alginolyticus presenting with fever and bilateral leg pain. Despite intensive management with antibiotics and inotropic agents, the patient died from septic shock 1 day after hospitalization. V. alginolyticus was isolated from both leg wounds and a blood culture. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of V. alginolyticus bacteremia in Korea. Yonsei University College of Medicine 2008-04-30 2008-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2615326/ /pubmed/18452273 http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2008.49.2.329 Text en Copyright © 2008 The Yonsei University College of Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Lee, Dong-Young
Moon, Soo-Youn
Lee, Sang-Oh
Yang, Hee-Young
Lee, Hee-Joo
Lee, Mi Suk
Septic Shock due to Vibrio alginolyticus in a Cirrhotic Patient: The First Case in Korea
title Septic Shock due to Vibrio alginolyticus in a Cirrhotic Patient: The First Case in Korea
title_full Septic Shock due to Vibrio alginolyticus in a Cirrhotic Patient: The First Case in Korea
title_fullStr Septic Shock due to Vibrio alginolyticus in a Cirrhotic Patient: The First Case in Korea
title_full_unstemmed Septic Shock due to Vibrio alginolyticus in a Cirrhotic Patient: The First Case in Korea
title_short Septic Shock due to Vibrio alginolyticus in a Cirrhotic Patient: The First Case in Korea
title_sort septic shock due to vibrio alginolyticus in a cirrhotic patient: the first case in korea
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2615326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18452273
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2008.49.2.329
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