COVID-19:

Carlos Espiche1, Manuel Beltran2, Yadanar Win Lei1

  • 1Internal Medicine, St. Barnabas Hospital (SBH) Health System and The City University of New York (CUNY) School of Medicine, Bronx, USA.

Cureus
|July 3, 2023
PubMed
概括

这份病例报告强调了一名COVID-19患者,该患者患有脑膜炎球菌病,导致ARDS和败血症休克. 早期识别败血症对于区分感染和预防致命结果至关重要.

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