Staphylococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome Caused by Tampon Use

The authors report a case of near-fatal sepsis with multiorgan failure resulting from a Staphylococcal tampon-associated toxic shock syndrome, requiring a lengthy critical care admission. Successful treatment of this condition focuses on early identification, source control, and administration of an...

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Autores principales: McDermott, Cian, Sheridan, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4321081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25692047
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/640373
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description The authors report a case of near-fatal sepsis with multiorgan failure resulting from a Staphylococcal tampon-associated toxic shock syndrome, requiring a lengthy critical care admission. Successful treatment of this condition focuses on early identification, source control, and administration of antimicrobial agents. Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy used early may prevent widespread tissue necrosis.
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spelling pubmed-43210812015-02-17 Staphylococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome Caused by Tampon Use McDermott, Cian Sheridan, Michael Case Rep Crit Care Case Report The authors report a case of near-fatal sepsis with multiorgan failure resulting from a Staphylococcal tampon-associated toxic shock syndrome, requiring a lengthy critical care admission. Successful treatment of this condition focuses on early identification, source control, and administration of antimicrobial agents. Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy used early may prevent widespread tissue necrosis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4321081/ /pubmed/25692047 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/640373 Text en Copyright © 2015 C. McDermott and M. Sheridan. 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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