A case report of bacteremia manifesting as an overwhelming postsplenectomy infection due to Streptococcus pneumoniae post vaccination

A 62-year-old woman was admitted for acute epigastralgia and high-grade fever of over 39 °C. The patient had undergone splenectomy for idiopathic portal hypertension 1 year ago and vaccination against Streptococcus pneumoniae immediately post operation. She developed localized peritoneal irritation...

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Gepubliceerd in:Surg Case Rep
Hoofdauteurs: Hirose, Kosuke, Okabe, Hirohisa, Yoshizumi, Tomoharu, Uchiyama, Hideaki, Ikegami, Toru, Harimoto, Norifumi, Itoh, Shinji, Kimura, Koichi, Baba, Hideo, Maehara, Yoshihiko
Formaat: Artigo
Taal:Inglês
Gepubliceerd in: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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Case Report
Online toegang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4879078/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27221131
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-016-0173-2
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