Related Experiment Videos
Streptococcal toxic shock-like syndrome in a post-myomectomy patient
1Department of Anaesthesia, Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children's Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 229899.
Hong Kong Medical Journal = Xianggang Yi Xue Za Zhi
|February 8, 2002
Abstract:
We report on a healthy 34-year-old woman who received an elective myomectomy for uterine fibroid, and postoperatively developed fatal streptococcal toxic shock-like syndrome. We discuss the series of events that led to this life-threatening disease and its pathophysiology, and suggest areas in which management might have been improved.