Fatal Septicaemia Following Suprapubic Cystostomy in a Paraplegic Patient: Never Do a Cystostomy without Prior Urine Culture and Appropriate Antibiogram!

Neuropathic urinary bladder is often colonised by multidrug-resistant bacteria. We report a 64-year-old male spinal cord injury patient with paraplegia, who received gentamicin on empirical basis before undergoing suprapubic cystostomy, as antibiotic sensitivity report of urine was not available. Th...

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Autores principales: Vaidyanathan, Subramanian, Soni, Bakul M., Oo, Tun, Hughes, Peter L., Singh, Gurpreet
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20589219
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/461514

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20589219
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/461514

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