Overwhelming postsplenectomy infection due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae in an asplenic cirrhotic patient: Case report

BACKGROUND: Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection is usually self-limited, but some fulminant cases are fatal, even when occurring in previously healthy individuals. It can also be the cause of overwhelming postsplenectomy infection (OPSI). CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of OPSI in a 41-year-old woma...

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Autores principales: Xu, Feng, Dai, Chao-Liu, Wu, Xing-Mao, Chu, Peng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3118146/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21651767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-11-162

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3118146/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21651767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-11-162

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