Prenatal sonography of placental abscess and prolonged antibiotic treatment for Serratia marcescens bacteremia

Termination of pregnancy is indicated for Serratia marcescens bacteremia, a major cause of mortality. Our present case was highly challenging because the patient wished to continue with her pregnancy, and the ultrasonography showed features of a placental abscess. Although the outcomes were good aft...

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Autores principales: Mak, Annisa Shui Lam, Tang, Tommy Hing Cheung, Lam, Kwok Wai, Kwok, Angie Lok Ming, Cheuk, Wah, Wu, Tak Chiu, Leung, Kwok Yin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5838271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29531736
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1406
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author Mak, Annisa Shui Lam
Tang, Tommy Hing Cheung
Lam, Kwok Wai
Kwok, Angie Lok Ming
Cheuk, Wah
Wu, Tak Chiu
Leung, Kwok Yin
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description Termination of pregnancy is indicated for Serratia marcescens bacteremia, a major cause of mortality. Our present case was highly challenging because the patient wished to continue with her pregnancy, and the ultrasonography showed features of a placental abscess. Although the outcomes were good after prolonged antibiotic treatment, this was an exceptional case.
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spelling pubmed-58382712018-03-12 Prenatal sonography of placental abscess and prolonged antibiotic treatment for Serratia marcescens bacteremia Mak, Annisa Shui Lam Tang, Tommy Hing Cheung Lam, Kwok Wai Kwok, Angie Lok Ming Cheuk, Wah Wu, Tak Chiu Leung, Kwok Yin Clin Case Rep Case Reports Termination of pregnancy is indicated for Serratia marcescens bacteremia, a major cause of mortality. Our present case was highly challenging because the patient wished to continue with her pregnancy, and the ultrasonography showed features of a placental abscess. Although the outcomes were good after prolonged antibiotic treatment, this was an exceptional case. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5838271/ /pubmed/29531736 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1406 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
spellingShingle Case Reports
Mak, Annisa Shui Lam
Tang, Tommy Hing Cheung
Lam, Kwok Wai
Kwok, Angie Lok Ming
Cheuk, Wah
Wu, Tak Chiu
Leung, Kwok Yin
Prenatal sonography of placental abscess and prolonged antibiotic treatment for Serratia marcescens bacteremia
title Prenatal sonography of placental abscess and prolonged antibiotic treatment for Serratia marcescens bacteremia
title_full Prenatal sonography of placental abscess and prolonged antibiotic treatment for Serratia marcescens bacteremia
title_fullStr Prenatal sonography of placental abscess and prolonged antibiotic treatment for Serratia marcescens bacteremia
title_full_unstemmed Prenatal sonography of placental abscess and prolonged antibiotic treatment for Serratia marcescens bacteremia
title_short Prenatal sonography of placental abscess and prolonged antibiotic treatment for Serratia marcescens bacteremia
title_sort prenatal sonography of placental abscess and prolonged antibiotic treatment for serratia marcescens bacteremia
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5838271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29531736
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1406
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