Pregnancy Complicated by Ludwig's Angina Requiring Delivery

At 33 weeks of gestation, a 24-year-old developed Ludwig's angina that worsened despite aggressive therapy. This is the first reported case of Ludwig's Angina in pregnancy that required an emergent cesarean section for fetal indications. Delivery may have contributed to improvement in the...

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Autores principales: Moorhead, Kathleen, Guiahi, Maryam
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/PMC2901606/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20628589
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/158264
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description At 33 weeks of gestation, a 24-year-old developed Ludwig's angina that worsened despite aggressive therapy. This is the first reported case of Ludwig's Angina in pregnancy that required an emergent cesarean section for fetal indications. Delivery may have contributed to improvement in the mother's health status.
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spelling pubmed-29016062010-07-13 Pregnancy Complicated by Ludwig's Angina Requiring Delivery Moorhead, Kathleen Guiahi, Maryam Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol Case Report At 33 weeks of gestation, a 24-year-old developed Ludwig's angina that worsened despite aggressive therapy. This is the first reported case of Ludwig's Angina in pregnancy that required an emergent cesarean section for fetal indications. Delivery may have contributed to improvement in the mother's health status. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC2901606/ /pubmed/20628589 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/158264 Text en Copyright © 2010 K. Moorhead and M. Guiahi. 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.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2901606/
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