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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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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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