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Edema agudo hemorrágico da infância Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy
Revista Brasileira de Reumatologia, 2004 Relatamos o caso de uma criança de oito meses de idade com infecção das vias aéreas superiores, seguida de irritabilidade e pelo aparecimento de lesões purpúricas na face, extremidades e pavilhões auriculares e edema de dorso dos pés e das mãos ...
Fabiana Britto Goulart +3 more
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Protein C Replacement in Severe Meningococcemia: Rationale and Clinical Experience [PDF]
, 2017 Severe meningococcemia, which is associated with hemodynamic instability, purpura fulminans and disseminated intravascular coagulation, still has a high mortality rate, and patients who survive are often left invalids because of amputations and organ ...
Esmon, Charles T. +2 more
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Invasive Meningococcal Disease in North Batina, Oman in 2023. A Case Study [PDF]
Invasive Meningococcal Disease is a severe bacterial infection with a high fatality rate particularly in young children. It is caused by Neisseria meningitidis bacteria which colonizes the nasopharynx.
Al Hashmi, Fatima +7 more
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Meningococcemia complicada por miocardite
, 2017 We report a case of a 26-year old man with meningococcemia complicated with myocarditis (ventricular dysfunction and myocardial ischemia), that required treatment for heart failure.
Barros, Rui Alves +2 more
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, 2012 International audienceChronic meningococcemia is a form of sepsis with frequent polymorphous skin lesions. Both in vivo and in vitro data suggest that, in these lesions, meningococci gain access from the capillary lumen to the peripheral extravascular ...
Poyart, Claire +10 more
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Rifampin-resistant Meningococcal Disease
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005 Rifampin-resistant meningococcal disease occurred in a child who had completed rifampin chemoprophylaxis for exposure to a sibling with meningococcemia. Susceptibility testing of 331 case isolates found only 1 other case of rifampin-resistant disease in ...
Jean Rainbow +5 more
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African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2011 The first cases of meningococcal meningitis were described in Geneva in 1805 and in New England in 1806, the causative agent finally being identified by Anton Weichselbaum in 1887.
Alex Koyfman, James Kimo Takayesu
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Revista Médica del Hospital General de México, 2016 Dermatologic emergencies represent about 8–20% of the diseases seen in the Emergency Department of hospitals. It is often a challenge for primary care physicians to differentiate mundane skin ailments from more serious, life threatening conditions that ...
M.P. Simón Díaz +2 more
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Meningococcemia without Meningitis Complicated by Purpura Fulminans and Hearing Impairment: A Rare Case Report and Review of Literature / Meningococcemia sem Meningite Complicada por Purpura Fulminante e Deficiência Auditiva: Um Relato de Caso Raro e Revisão de Literatura [PDF]
, 2020 Considered a rare disorder, meningococcemia without meningitis can affect previously healthy individuals and cause serious clinical impact. We describe a case of a 24 years-old previously health male patient with life-threatening meningococcemia ...
Alves, Lívia Gabriela Campos +6 more
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Meningococcal Disease (Infectio Meningococciea). Part 2
Aktualʹnaâ Infektologiâ, 2014 The lecture deals with the diagnosis and treatment of meningococcal disease. Attention is given to laboratory diagnosis, differential diagnosis. There are provided the algorithms of medical care for children with meningococcemia in the prehospital and ...
O.K. Koloskova +3 more
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