Clostridium perfringens Bacteremia in an 85-Year-Old Diabetic Man

Emphysematous cholecystitis is an uncommon and dangerous complication of acute cholecystitis. Common risk factors for this disease include male gender, old age, presence of diabetes mellitus and cholelithiasis. The disease is best treated with emergent surgery and parenteral antibiotics. We present...

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Autores principales: Mirrakhimov, Aibek E., Chandra, Gopika, Voore, Prakruthi, Khan, Maliha, Halytskyy, Oleksandr, Elhassan, Ahmed, Ali, Alaa M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2014
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Published online: December, 2014
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4307004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25685130
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000371540
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author Mirrakhimov, Aibek E.
Chandra, Gopika
Voore, Prakruthi
Khan, Maliha
Halytskyy, Oleksandr
Elhassan, Ahmed
Ali, Alaa M.
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Chandra, Gopika
Voore, Prakruthi
Khan, Maliha
Halytskyy, Oleksandr
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description Emphysematous cholecystitis is an uncommon and dangerous complication of acute cholecystitis. Common risk factors for this disease include male gender, old age, presence of diabetes mellitus and cholelithiasis. The disease is best treated with emergent surgery and parenteral antibiotics. We present the case of an 85-year-old nursing home resident who presented to our institution with a 3-day history of gradually worsening abdominal discomfort.
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spelling pubmed-43070042015-02-13 Clostridium perfringens Bacteremia in an 85-Year-Old Diabetic Man Mirrakhimov, Aibek E. Chandra, Gopika Voore, Prakruthi Khan, Maliha Halytskyy, Oleksandr Elhassan, Ahmed Ali, Alaa M. Case Rep Gastroenterol Published online: December, 2014 Emphysematous cholecystitis is an uncommon and dangerous complication of acute cholecystitis. Common risk factors for this disease include male gender, old age, presence of diabetes mellitus and cholelithiasis. The disease is best treated with emergent surgery and parenteral antibiotics. We present the case of an 85-year-old nursing home resident who presented to our institution with a 3-day history of gradually worsening abdominal discomfort. S. Karger AG 2014-12-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4307004/ /pubmed/25685130 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000371540 Text en Copyright © 2014 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published online: December, 2014
Mirrakhimov, Aibek E.
Chandra, Gopika
Voore, Prakruthi
Khan, Maliha
Halytskyy, Oleksandr
Elhassan, Ahmed
Ali, Alaa M.
Clostridium perfringens Bacteremia in an 85-Year-Old Diabetic Man
title Clostridium perfringens Bacteremia in an 85-Year-Old Diabetic Man
title_full Clostridium perfringens Bacteremia in an 85-Year-Old Diabetic Man
title_fullStr Clostridium perfringens Bacteremia in an 85-Year-Old Diabetic Man
title_full_unstemmed Clostridium perfringens Bacteremia in an 85-Year-Old Diabetic Man
title_short Clostridium perfringens Bacteremia in an 85-Year-Old Diabetic Man
title_sort clostridium perfringens bacteremia in an 85-year-old diabetic man
topic Published online: December, 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4307004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25685130
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000371540
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