Fatal Vibrio vulnificus Bacteremia in Two Cirrhotic Patients with Abdominal Pain and Misty Mesentery

Two cirrhotic patients with unexplained abdominal pain deteriorated rapidly and fatally after presenting to our emergency department. Abdominal computed tomography in both patients showed “misty mesentery”, which could not be explained by other etiologies. Both blood cultures revealed Vibrio vulnifi...

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Autores principales: Lim, Ket-Cheong, Tan, Yin-Ling, Wu, Chin-Chu, Lin, Li-Wei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5965206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29849345
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2017.5.33420
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author Lim, Ket-Cheong
Tan, Yin-Ling
Wu, Chin-Chu
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description Two cirrhotic patients with unexplained abdominal pain deteriorated rapidly and fatally after presenting to our emergency department. Abdominal computed tomography in both patients showed “misty mesentery”, which could not be explained by other etiologies. Both blood cultures revealed Vibrio vulnificus, which suggested the possible correlation of CT-finding and bacteremia.
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spelling pubmed-59652062018-05-30 Fatal Vibrio vulnificus Bacteremia in Two Cirrhotic Patients with Abdominal Pain and Misty Mesentery Lim, Ket-Cheong Tan, Yin-Ling Wu, Chin-Chu Lin, Li-Wei Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Case Report Two cirrhotic patients with unexplained abdominal pain deteriorated rapidly and fatally after presenting to our emergency department. Abdominal computed tomography in both patients showed “misty mesentery”, which could not be explained by other etiologies. Both blood cultures revealed Vibrio vulnificus, which suggested the possible correlation of CT-finding and bacteremia. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5965206/ /pubmed/29849345 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2017.5.33420 Text en © 2017 Lim et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Fatal Vibrio vulnificus Bacteremia in Two Cirrhotic Patients with Abdominal Pain and Misty Mesentery
title Fatal Vibrio vulnificus Bacteremia in Two Cirrhotic Patients with Abdominal Pain and Misty Mesentery
title_full Fatal Vibrio vulnificus Bacteremia in Two Cirrhotic Patients with Abdominal Pain and Misty Mesentery
title_fullStr Fatal Vibrio vulnificus Bacteremia in Two Cirrhotic Patients with Abdominal Pain and Misty Mesentery
title_full_unstemmed Fatal Vibrio vulnificus Bacteremia in Two Cirrhotic Patients with Abdominal Pain and Misty Mesentery
title_short Fatal Vibrio vulnificus Bacteremia in Two Cirrhotic Patients with Abdominal Pain and Misty Mesentery
title_sort fatal vibrio vulnificus bacteremia in two cirrhotic patients with abdominal pain and misty mesentery
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5965206/
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