Lemierre's syndrome caused by Streptococcus pyogenes in an elderly woman

Lemierre's syndrome is characterized by septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein. It typically presents in healthy adolescents or young adults, usually preceded by an oropharyngeal infection, with the most common offending pathogen being Fusobacterium necrophorum. We present a case...

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Autores principales: Siddique, Mustafa Khaleel, Chang, Grace, Lagmay, Victor, Shih, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7005475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32055760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvscit.2019.11.007
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description Lemierre's syndrome is characterized by septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein. It typically presents in healthy adolescents or young adults, usually preceded by an oropharyngeal infection, with the most common offending pathogen being Fusobacterium necrophorum. We present a case of Lemierre's syndrome in an elderly woman without antecedent oropharyngeal infection, caused by Streptococcus pyogenes. She was successfully treated with combined surgical and medical management.
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spelling pubmed-70054752020-02-13 Lemierre's syndrome caused by Streptococcus pyogenes in an elderly woman Siddique, Mustafa Khaleel Chang, Grace Lagmay, Victor Shih, Michael J Vasc Surg Cases Innov Tech Case report Lemierre's syndrome is characterized by septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein. It typically presents in healthy adolescents or young adults, usually preceded by an oropharyngeal infection, with the most common offending pathogen being Fusobacterium necrophorum. We present a case of Lemierre's syndrome in an elderly woman without antecedent oropharyngeal infection, caused by Streptococcus pyogenes. She was successfully treated with combined surgical and medical management. Elsevier 2020-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7005475/ /pubmed/32055760 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvscit.2019.11.007 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Lemierre's syndrome caused by Streptococcus pyogenes in an elderly woman
title Lemierre's syndrome caused by Streptococcus pyogenes in an elderly woman
title_full Lemierre's syndrome caused by Streptococcus pyogenes in an elderly woman
title_fullStr Lemierre's syndrome caused by Streptococcus pyogenes in an elderly woman
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title_short Lemierre's syndrome caused by Streptococcus pyogenes in an elderly woman
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7005475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32055760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvscit.2019.11.007
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