Contralateral compartment syndrome inoculated by invasive group A streptococcus

Compartment syndrome is a rare but a well-documented complication in patients with trauma-induced group A streptococcus infection. Here, we present a case of a male who developed compartment syndrome on the left lower extremity after an injury inoculated by group A streptococcus on the right lower e...

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Autores principales: Chen, Huiwen, Mcphillips, Sean Thomas, Chundi, Vishnu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5089155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27802865
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v6.33007
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author Chen, Huiwen
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description Compartment syndrome is a rare but a well-documented complication in patients with trauma-induced group A streptococcus infection. Here, we present a case of a male who developed compartment syndrome on the left lower extremity after an injury inoculated by group A streptococcus on the right lower extremity. The patient was resuscitated with antibiotics, urgent fasciotomy, and immunoglobulin. The patient was eventually transferred to a burn center for further care.
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spelling pubmed-50891552016-11-17 Contralateral compartment syndrome inoculated by invasive group A streptococcus Chen, Huiwen Mcphillips, Sean Thomas Chundi, Vishnu J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Case Report Compartment syndrome is a rare but a well-documented complication in patients with trauma-induced group A streptococcus infection. Here, we present a case of a male who developed compartment syndrome on the left lower extremity after an injury inoculated by group A streptococcus on the right lower extremity. The patient was resuscitated with antibiotics, urgent fasciotomy, and immunoglobulin. The patient was eventually transferred to a burn center for further care. Co-Action Publishing 2016-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5089155/ /pubmed/27802865 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v6.33007 Text en © 2016 Huiwen Chen et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Contralateral compartment syndrome inoculated by invasive group A streptococcus
title Contralateral compartment syndrome inoculated by invasive group A streptococcus
title_full Contralateral compartment syndrome inoculated by invasive group A streptococcus
title_fullStr Contralateral compartment syndrome inoculated by invasive group A streptococcus
title_full_unstemmed Contralateral compartment syndrome inoculated by invasive group A streptococcus
title_short Contralateral compartment syndrome inoculated by invasive group A streptococcus
title_sort contralateral compartment syndrome inoculated by invasive group a streptococcus
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5089155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27802865
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v6.33007
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