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Fatal Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome due toEwingella americanaInfection

 

作者: Michael Tsokos,  

 

期刊: The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology  (OVID Available online 2003)
卷期: Volume 24, issue 1  

页码: 41-44

 

ISSN:0195-7910

 

年代: 2003

 

出版商: OVID

 

关键词: Ewingella americanainfection;Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome;Bilateral adrenal hemorrhage;Procalcitonin;Sudden death

 

数据来源: OVID

 

摘要:

A fatal case of Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome resulting fromEwingella americanainfection in a previously healthy 74-year-old woman is reported. The patient died suddenly within 14 hours after presentation. The diagnosis of Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome as the cause of death was established post mortem based on autopsy findings, microscopic examination, measurement of serum procalcitonin concentration (113 ng/ml), and outcome of postmortem bacteriologic cultures that grewE. americanain heart and spleen blood samples. Since the introduction ofE. americanaas a new group in the familyEnterobacteriaceaein 1983, more recent case studies have established its clinical significance and pathogenic potential to cause severe, life-threatening bacteremia and sepsis.E. americanais a rare pathogen that should be added to the list of unusual bacteria causing Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome.

 

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