Life-Threatening Clostridial Sepsis in a Postmenopausal Patient with Degenerating Uterine Leiomyoma

Clostridium perfringens is a fulminant infection that affects patients with a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Fortunately, C. perfringens-associated sepsis and death in the gynecologic patient is rarely encountered. We report a case of intrauterine C. perfringens presenting as life-threatening...

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Autores principales: Bryant, Christopher S., Perry, Latoya, Shah, Jay P., Kumar, Sanjeev, Deppe, Gunter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2878686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20585368
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/541959
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author Bryant, Christopher S.
Perry, Latoya
Shah, Jay P.
Kumar, Sanjeev
Deppe, Gunter
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description Clostridium perfringens is a fulminant infection that affects patients with a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Fortunately, C. perfringens-associated sepsis and death in the gynecologic patient is rarely encountered. We report a case of intrauterine C. perfringens presenting as life-threatening sepsis in a postmenopausal patient.
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spelling pubmed-28786862010-06-28 Life-Threatening Clostridial Sepsis in a Postmenopausal Patient with Degenerating Uterine Leiomyoma Bryant, Christopher S. Perry, Latoya Shah, Jay P. Kumar, Sanjeev Deppe, Gunter Case Rep Med Case Report Clostridium perfringens is a fulminant infection that affects patients with a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Fortunately, C. perfringens-associated sepsis and death in the gynecologic patient is rarely encountered. We report a case of intrauterine C. perfringens presenting as life-threatening sepsis in a postmenopausal patient. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2878686/ /pubmed/20585368 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/541959 Text en Copyright © 2010 Christopher S. Bryant et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Bryant, Christopher S.
Perry, Latoya
Shah, Jay P.
Kumar, Sanjeev
Deppe, Gunter
Life-Threatening Clostridial Sepsis in a Postmenopausal Patient with Degenerating Uterine Leiomyoma
title Life-Threatening Clostridial Sepsis in a Postmenopausal Patient with Degenerating Uterine Leiomyoma
title_full Life-Threatening Clostridial Sepsis in a Postmenopausal Patient with Degenerating Uterine Leiomyoma
title_fullStr Life-Threatening Clostridial Sepsis in a Postmenopausal Patient with Degenerating Uterine Leiomyoma
title_full_unstemmed Life-Threatening Clostridial Sepsis in a Postmenopausal Patient with Degenerating Uterine Leiomyoma
title_short Life-Threatening Clostridial Sepsis in a Postmenopausal Patient with Degenerating Uterine Leiomyoma
title_sort life-threatening clostridial sepsis in a postmenopausal patient with degenerating uterine leiomyoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2878686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20585368
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/541959
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