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Spontaneous empyema and overwhelming septic shock due to Pasteurella multocida
Kevin B Laupland1, Karen P Rimmer, Daniel B Gregson
1Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary and Calgary Laboratory Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|April 16, 2003
Abstract:
Invasive Pasteurella multocida infection, although uncommon, has been recognized to occur more frequently among patients with hepatic cirrhosis. This study reports a fatal case of bacteremic P. multocida empyema without pneumonia associated with refractory septic shock in a patient with both cirrhosis and asplenia.