Life-threatening necrotizing myometritis, due to Group A streptococcus – still a life-threatening condition

Puerperal infection with Group A streptococcus (GAS) can present with few symptoms and rapidly progress to a life-threatening condition. Often, the infection can be treated with antibiotics. Delay in diagnosis increases risk of sepsis, multiorgan failure, and death. GAS infection is a differential d...

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Autores principales: Boie, Sidsel, Krog, Jan, Tørring, Sofus, Bor, Isil Pinar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4427370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25984307
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.217
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author Boie, Sidsel
Krog, Jan
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description Puerperal infection with Group A streptococcus (GAS) can present with few symptoms and rapidly progress to a life-threatening condition. Often, the infection can be treated with antibiotics. Delay in diagnosis increases risk of sepsis, multiorgan failure, and death. GAS infection is a differential diagnose for all postpartum women with unexplained symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-44273702015-05-15 Life-threatening necrotizing myometritis, due to Group A streptococcus – still a life-threatening condition Boie, Sidsel Krog, Jan Tørring, Sofus Bor, Isil Pinar Clin Case Rep Case Reports Puerperal infection with Group A streptococcus (GAS) can present with few symptoms and rapidly progress to a life-threatening condition. Often, the infection can be treated with antibiotics. Delay in diagnosis increases risk of sepsis, multiorgan failure, and death. GAS infection is a differential diagnose for all postpartum women with unexplained symptoms. BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2015-05 2015-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4427370/ /pubmed/25984307 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.217 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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title Life-threatening necrotizing myometritis, due to Group A streptococcus – still a life-threatening condition
title_full Life-threatening necrotizing myometritis, due to Group A streptococcus – still a life-threatening condition
title_fullStr Life-threatening necrotizing myometritis, due to Group A streptococcus – still a life-threatening condition
title_full_unstemmed Life-threatening necrotizing myometritis, due to Group A streptococcus – still a life-threatening condition
title_short Life-threatening necrotizing myometritis, due to Group A streptococcus – still a life-threatening condition
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4427370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25984307
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.217
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