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Clostridium ramosum Bacteremia With Mesenteric Ischemia Secondary to Superior and Inferior Mesenteric Arteries Occlusion

Clostridium ramosum, despite being a common enteric bacterium, is not commonly identified as the cause of pathologic infections in humans. It was first identified by Veillion and Zuber in 1898 from a patient with pulmonary gangrene and appendicitis. After performing an extensive literature search of...

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Autores principales: Padron, Christina, Valdez Imbert, Mario, Akanmode, Abiodun M, Jameel, Ihab
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9950000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36843680
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34170
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Sumario:Clostridium ramosum, despite being a common enteric bacterium, is not commonly identified as the cause of pathologic infections in humans. It was first identified by Veillion and Zuber in 1898 from a patient with pulmonary gangrene and appendicitis. After performing an extensive literature search of major databases, only a few cases of pathologic C. ramosum infection were found in the medical literature. In this piece of work, we add to existing research by presenting a case report of an 83-year-old female who presented with abdominal pain, fever, and shortness of breath, requiring ICU admission due to mesenteric ischemia and C. ramosum bacteremia.