301. Necrotizing soft tissue infection caused by Serratia marcescens: A case report and literature review.
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Hagiya H, Ojima M, Yoshida T, Matsui T, Morii E, Sato K, Tahara S, Yoshida H, and Tomono K
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- Fatal Outcome, Humans, Leg microbiology, Leg pathology, Leg surgery, Liver Cirrhosis complications, Male, Middle Aged, Fasciitis, Necrotizing, Serratia Infections, Serratia marcescens, Soft Tissue Infections
- Abstract
A 64-year-old man with advanced liver cirrhosis was transferred to an emergency center due to septic shock and markedly inflamed left leg. Under a clinical diagnosis of necrotizing soft tissue infection (NSTI), the patient undertook intensive therapy but died 25 h after arrival. The pathogenic organism, Serratia marcescens, was later isolated from blood and soft tissue cultures. NSTI is very rarely associated with S. marcescens. A literature review showed that only 16 such cases, including our case, have been reported to date. Our case is the first evidence of an S. marcescens NSTI in a patient with liver cirrhosis. S. marcescens NSTI has an extremely high mortality rate; total mortality and mortality in cases involving the extremities were 75% (12 of 16 cases) and 83.3% (10 of 12 cases), respectively. Physicians need to be aware that S. marcescens can induce fatal infections in community patients., (Copyright © 2015 Japanese Society of Chemotherapy and The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
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- 2016
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