Risk of Clostridium tetani infection in an elderly patient following hemorrhoid ligation

Tetanus after gastrointestinal surgery is an extremely rare but very dangerous disease caused by infection with Clostridium tetani. Tetanus can occur due to bacterial infection during surgery or dressing change, or the bacteria may exist in the patient’s intestines and be discharged with feces. This...

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Autores principales: Lai, Xiaofei, Hosyanto, Felycia Fernanda, Xu, Lei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7604989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33107774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060520963983
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description Tetanus after gastrointestinal surgery is an extremely rare but very dangerous disease caused by infection with Clostridium tetani. Tetanus can occur due to bacterial infection during surgery or dressing change, or the bacteria may exist in the patient’s intestines and be discharged with feces. This report describes a 71-year-old woman who developed tetanus 3 days after a hemorrhoidal ligation. Clinicians need to be aware of symptoms of C. tetani infection that might present in patients who have undergone gastrointestinal procedures.
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spelling pubmed-76049892020-11-12 Risk of Clostridium tetani infection in an elderly patient following hemorrhoid ligation Lai, Xiaofei Hosyanto, Felycia Fernanda Xu, Lei J Int Med Res Case Report Tetanus after gastrointestinal surgery is an extremely rare but very dangerous disease caused by infection with Clostridium tetani. Tetanus can occur due to bacterial infection during surgery or dressing change, or the bacteria may exist in the patient’s intestines and be discharged with feces. This report describes a 71-year-old woman who developed tetanus 3 days after a hemorrhoidal ligation. Clinicians need to be aware of symptoms of C. tetani infection that might present in patients who have undergone gastrointestinal procedures. SAGE Publications 2020-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7604989/ /pubmed/33107774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060520963983 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_short Risk of Clostridium tetani infection in an elderly patient following hemorrhoid ligation
title_sort risk of clostridium tetani infection in an elderly patient following hemorrhoid ligation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7604989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33107774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060520963983
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