Pneumococcal sepsis presenting as acute compartment syndrome of the lower limbs: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Acute compartment syndrome is a surgical emergency requiring immediate fasciotomy. Spontaneous onset of acute compartment syndrome of the lower limbs is rare. We present a very rare case of pneumococcal sepsis leading to spontaneous acute compartment syndrome. CASE PRESENTATION: A 40-y...

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Autores principales: Doddi, Sudeendra, Singhal, Tarun, Sinha, Prakash
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2644321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19203372
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-55
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author Doddi, Sudeendra
Singhal, Tarun
Sinha, Prakash
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Sinha, Prakash
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description INTRODUCTION: Acute compartment syndrome is a surgical emergency requiring immediate fasciotomy. Spontaneous onset of acute compartment syndrome of the lower limbs is rare. We present a very rare case of pneumococcal sepsis leading to spontaneous acute compartment syndrome. CASE PRESENTATION: A 40-year-old Caucasian man presented as an emergency with spontaneous onset of pain in both legs and signs of compartment syndrome. This was confirmed on fasciotomy. Blood culture grew Streptococcus pneumoniae. CONCLUSION: Sepsis should be strongly suspected in bilateral acute compartment syndrome of spontaneous onset.
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spelling pubmed-26443212009-02-18 Pneumococcal sepsis presenting as acute compartment syndrome of the lower limbs: a case report Doddi, Sudeendra Singhal, Tarun Sinha, Prakash J Med Case Reports Case report INTRODUCTION: Acute compartment syndrome is a surgical emergency requiring immediate fasciotomy. Spontaneous onset of acute compartment syndrome of the lower limbs is rare. We present a very rare case of pneumococcal sepsis leading to spontaneous acute compartment syndrome. CASE PRESENTATION: A 40-year-old Caucasian man presented as an emergency with spontaneous onset of pain in both legs and signs of compartment syndrome. This was confirmed on fasciotomy. Blood culture grew Streptococcus pneumoniae. CONCLUSION: Sepsis should be strongly suspected in bilateral acute compartment syndrome of spontaneous onset. BioMed Central 2009-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC2644321/ /pubmed/19203372 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-55 Text en Copyright ©2009 Doddi et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Doddi, Sudeendra
Singhal, Tarun
Sinha, Prakash
Pneumococcal sepsis presenting as acute compartment syndrome of the lower limbs: a case report
title Pneumococcal sepsis presenting as acute compartment syndrome of the lower limbs: a case report
title_full Pneumococcal sepsis presenting as acute compartment syndrome of the lower limbs: a case report
title_fullStr Pneumococcal sepsis presenting as acute compartment syndrome of the lower limbs: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Pneumococcal sepsis presenting as acute compartment syndrome of the lower limbs: a case report
title_short Pneumococcal sepsis presenting as acute compartment syndrome of the lower limbs: a case report
title_sort pneumococcal sepsis presenting as acute compartment syndrome of the lower limbs: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2644321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19203372
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-55
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