RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Overwhelming pneumococcal infection in a hyposplenic adult
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 851
OP 854
VO 129
IS 8
A1 J. P. Hatch
A1 W. J. Sibbald
A1 T. W. Austin
YR 1983
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/129/8/851.abstract
AB In a woman with an atrophic, apparently nonfunctioning spleen pneumococcal septicemia led to death within 72 hours of admission. As in five previously described adults, the patient's presentation and subsequent clinical course were identical to those of the syndrome of overwhelming postsplenectomy infection, except that there was no history of splenectomy. Patients without spleens may be given penicillin prophylaxis for an indefinite period, vaccinated against pneumococci or both.