Gangrenous gas necrosis of the spleen: a case report

BACKGROUND: Splenic abscess usually arises from hematogenous spread. Causative pathogens are various and anaerobic pathogens are rarely reported. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 50-year-old male patient who was admitted for sepsis due to gangrenous necrosis of the spleen associated with b...

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Autores principales: Meyer, Jeremy, Dupuis, Arnaud, Huttner, Benedikt D., Tihy, Matthieu, Bühler, Léo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6727493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31488072
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4406-4
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author Meyer, Jeremy
Dupuis, Arnaud
Huttner, Benedikt D.
Tihy, Matthieu
Bühler, Léo
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description BACKGROUND: Splenic abscess usually arises from hematogenous spread. Causative pathogens are various and anaerobic pathogens are rarely reported. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 50-year-old male patient who was admitted for sepsis due to gangrenous necrosis of the spleen associated with bacteremia. Causative pathogens were Clostridium perfringens and Streptococcus gallolyticus. The patient was successfully treated by splenectomy and targeted intravenous antibiotics. No underlying or predisposing disease was found. CONCLUSION: Gangrenous necrosis of the spleen is a rare entity that can be successfully treated by splenectomy and antibiotics.
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spelling pubmed-67274932019-09-12 Gangrenous gas necrosis of the spleen: a case report Meyer, Jeremy Dupuis, Arnaud Huttner, Benedikt D. Tihy, Matthieu Bühler, Léo BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Splenic abscess usually arises from hematogenous spread. Causative pathogens are various and anaerobic pathogens are rarely reported. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 50-year-old male patient who was admitted for sepsis due to gangrenous necrosis of the spleen associated with bacteremia. Causative pathogens were Clostridium perfringens and Streptococcus gallolyticus. The patient was successfully treated by splenectomy and targeted intravenous antibiotics. No underlying or predisposing disease was found. CONCLUSION: Gangrenous necrosis of the spleen is a rare entity that can be successfully treated by splenectomy and antibiotics. BioMed Central 2019-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6727493/ /pubmed/31488072 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4406-4 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_short Gangrenous gas necrosis of the spleen: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6727493/
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