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Uccella S, Dottermusch M, Erickson L, Warmbier J, Montone K, Saeger W. Inflammatory and Infectious Disorders in Endocrine Pathology. Endocr Pathol 2023; 34:406-436. [PMID: 37209390 PMCID: PMC10199304 DOI: 10.1007/s12022-023-09771-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
Abstract
A variety of inflammatory conditions may directly involve the endocrine glands, leading to endocrine dysfunction that can cause severe consequences on patients' health, if left untreated. Inflammation of the endocrine system may be caused by either infectious agents or other mechanisms, including autoimmune and other immune-mediated processes. Not infrequently, inflammatory and infectious diseases may appear as tumor-like lesions of endocrine organs and simulate neoplastic processes. These diseases may be clinically under-recognized and not infrequently the diagnosis is suggested on pathological samples. Thus, the pathologist should be aware of the basic principles of their pathogenesis, as well as of their morphological features, clinicopathological correlates, and differential diagnosis. Interestingly, several systemic inflammatory conditions show a peculiar tropism to the endocrine system as a whole. In turn, organ-specific inflammatory disorders are observed in endocrine glands. This review will focus on the morphological aspects and clinicopathological features of infectious diseases, autoimmune disorders, drug-induced inflammatory reactions, IgG4-related disease, and other inflammatory disorders involving the endocrine system. A mixed entity-based and organ-based approach will be used, with the aim to provide the practicing pathologist with a comprehensive and practical guide to the diagnosis of infectious and inflammatory disorders of the endocrine system.
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Affiliation(s)
- Silvia Uccella
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Via Rita Levi Montalcini 4, 20072 Pieve Emanule, Milan, Italy
- Pathology Service IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Via Manzoni 56, 20089 Rozzano, Milan, Italy
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- Institute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN USA
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- Institute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Institute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
- Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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Tew ZY, Johnson D, Louis G, Bhowmick K. Purpura fulminans in a hyposplenic patient arising from pneumococcal sinusitis. BMJ Case Rep 2023; 16:e253043. [PMID: 37460246 PMCID: PMC10357718 DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2022-253043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/20/2023] Open
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We report a previously healthy woman in her 50s who presented with sepsis, rapidly progressive purpuric rash and disseminated intravascular coagulation. She was diagnosed with acute infective purpura fulminans due to invasive pneumococcal infection likely secondary to sinusitis. Our case report discusses our initial diagnostic uncertainty and approach in investigating and treating such a critically unwell patient.
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- Zi Yi Tew
- Department of Anaesthesia, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Bury Saint Edmunds, UK
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- Department of General Medicine, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Bury Saint Edmunds, UK
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
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- Department of Anaesthesia, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Bury Saint Edmunds, UK
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Hale AJ, Depo B, Khan S, Whitman TJ, Bullis S, Singh D, Peterson K, Hyson P, Catoe L, Tompkins BJ, Kemper Alston W, Dejace J. The Impact of Standardized Infectious Diseases Consultation on Post-Splenectomy Care and Outcomes. Open Forum Infect Dis 2022; 9:ofac380. [PMID: 35983262 PMCID: PMC9379811 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2022] [Accepted: 07/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background
Patients who receive splenectomy are at risk for overwhelming postsplenectomy infection (OPSI). Guidelines recommend that adult asplenic patients receive a complement of vaccinations, education on the risks of OPSI, and on-demand antibiotics. However, prior literature suggests a majority of patients who have had a splenectomy receive incomplete asplenic patient care and thus remain at increased risk. This study assessed the impact of standardized involvement of infectious diseases (ID) providers on asplenic patient care outcomes in patients undergoing splenectomy.
Methods
A quasi-experimental study design compared a prospective cohort of patients undergoing splenectomy from August 2017 to June 2021 who received standardized ID involvement in care of the asplenic patient with a historic control cohort of patients undergoing splenectomy at the same institution from January 2010 through July 2017 who did not. There were 11 components of asplenic patient care defined as primary outcomes. Secondary outcomes included the occurrence of OPSI, death, and death from OPSI.
Results
50 patients were included in the prospective intervention cohort and 128 in the historic control cohort. There were significant improvements in 9 of the 11 primary outcomes in the intervention arm as compared to the historic controls. Survival analysis showed no statistically significant difference in the incidence of OPSI-free survival between the groups (p = 0.056), though there was a trend towards improvement in the prospective intervention arm.
Conclusions
Standardized involvement of an ID provider in the care of patients undergoing splenectomy improves asplenic patient care outcomes. Routine involvement of ID in this setting may be warranted.
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- Andrew J Hale
- Infectious diseases physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont , Burlington, VT , USA
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- Internal medicine physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont , Burlington, VT , USA
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- Hematology-Oncology fellow at Lankenau Medical Center , Wynnewood, PA , USA
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- Infectious diseases physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont , Burlington, VT , USA
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- Infectious diseases physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont , Burlington, VT , USA
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- Infectious diseases physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont , Burlington, VT , USA
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- Infectious diseases physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont , Burlington, VT , USA
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- Infectious diseases fellow at the University of Vermont Medical Center , Burlington, VT , USA
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- Infectious diseases nurse practitioner at the University of Vermont Medical Center , Burlington, VT , USA
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- Quality analyst for the Quality Program in the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont , Burlington, VT , USA
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- Infectious diseases physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center and Professor of Medicine at Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont , Burlington, VT , USA
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- Infectious diseases physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont , Burlington, VT , USA
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Horita T, Kosaka N, Takaoka S, Fujii G, Fujimoto K, Koshimizu Y, Kakuda T, Shojo H, Adachi N. Three Autopsy Cases of Non-Meningococcal Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome with Hypoplastic Spleen or Post-Splenectomy Status. TOHOKU J EXP MED 2022; 258:287-301. [DOI: 10.1620/tjem.2022.j085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- Tetsuya Horita
- Department of Legal Medicine, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Yamanashi Hospital
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- Laboratory of Systems Genomics, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi
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Williamson SJ, Ruiz-Gaviria R. Pneumococcal purpura fulminans in a 25-year-old patient with liver cirrhosis due to autoimmune hepatitis. IDCases 2022; 30:e01610. [PMID: 36061139 PMCID: PMC9429787 DOI: 10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2022] [Accepted: 08/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Purpura fulminans (PF) is a skin disorder with high morbidity and mortality which is characterized by microvascular thrombosis and development of hemorrhagic necrosis. PF can be caused by acute infection, most commonly due to Neisseria meningitidis, followed by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Prior reports describe cases of pneumococcal PF occurring in patients with asplenia or hyposplenia, though cases have also been reported in otherwise healthy adults without known splenic disease. Herein, we report a young adult patient with cirrhosis due to autoimmune hepatitis who had not received pneumococcal vaccination and developed rapidly progressive fatal S. pneumoniae sepsis with PF.
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Badawy M, Gaballah AH, Ganeshan D, Abdelalziz A, Remer EM, Alsabbagh M, Westphalen A, Siddiqui MA, Taffel MT, Itani M, Shaaban AM, Elsayes KM. Adrenal hemorrhage and hemorrhagic masses; diagnostic workup and imaging findings. Br J Radiol 2021; 94:20210753. [PMID: 34464549 DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20210753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Adrenal hemorrhage (AH) is a rare condition. It can be traumatic or non-traumatic. Most common causes are septicemia, coagulopathy or bleeding diathesis, and underlying neoplasms. Other reported less common causes of AH are COVID-19 and neonatal stress. Clinical diagnosis of AH is challenging due to its non-specific presentation and occurrence in the setting of acute medical illness. Therefore, most cases are diagnosed incidentally on imaging. Having high clinical suspicion in the proper clinical setting for AH is crucial to avoid life-threatening adrenal insufficiency that occurs in 16-50% of patients with bilateral AH. We discuss the clinical situations that predispose to AH, review the imaging features on different imaging modalities, highlight a variety of clinical cases, imaging features that should be concerning for an underlying neoplasm, and outline the potential role of interventional radiology in management of AH.
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- Mohamed Badawy
- Department of Radiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Radiology, University of Missouri Health care, Columbia, MO, United States
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- Department of Radiology, University of Missouri Health care, Columbia, MO, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, United States
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- Department of Radiology, University of Missouri Health care, Columbia, MO, United States
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- Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, University of Missouri Health care, Columbia, MO, United States
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- Department of Radiology, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
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- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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- Department of Radiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States
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Carvalho R, Henriques F, Teixeira S, Coimbra P. Fatal Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome in an adult due to serogroup Y Neisseria meningitidis. BMJ Case Rep 2021; 14:14/2/e238670. [PMID: 33541984 PMCID: PMC7868193 DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2020-238670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (WFS), defined as severe adrenal insufficiency due to bilateral adrenal gland haemorrhagic necrosis, occurred in a 59-year-old woman. An underlying serogroup Y Neisseria meningitidis (NM) infection was diagnosed, with a rapid progression to purpura fulminans, disseminated intravascular coagulation and WFS. Intensive treatment including fluid resuscitation, broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy, ventilatory support, platelet and factor replacement were administered. The meningococcaemia in the presence of WFS had a fulminant progression, leading to a fatal outcome within 24 hours of symptom onset. This case details the diagnosis and management challenges of the WFS, a rare complication of NM septicaemia, and describes the identification of a NM serogroup that is rare in Portugal in middle-aged patients.
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- Rúben Carvalho
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Department of Intensive Care, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Department of Intensive Care, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Department of Intensive Care, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Coimbra, Portugal
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Djurdjevic N, Taweesedt PT, Paulson M, LaNou A, Radovanovic M, Patel JN, Veselinovic M, McDermott WR, Dumic I. Septic Shock and Purpura Fulminans Due to Streptococcus pneumoniae Bacteremia in an Unvaccinated Immunocompetent Adult: Case Report and Review. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CASE REPORTS 2020; 21:e923266. [PMID: 32513908 PMCID: PMC7304654 DOI: 10.12659/ajcr.923266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2020] [Revised: 05/12/2020] [Accepted: 04/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Despite proven efficacy of vaccinations against Streptococcus pneumoniae in preventing infection, only 70% of eligible individuals receive the vaccine in the United States. Pneumococcal bacteremia represents a form of invasive pneumococcal disease and is associated with high mortality, especially in immunocompromised patients and the elderly. Purpura fulminans is a rare complication and manifestation of disseminated intravascular coagulation and sepsis. It is exceedingly rare in the setting of pneumococcal bacteremia, particularly in immunocompetent individuals. CASE REPORT We report a generally healthy 67-year-old male with schizophrenia who refused pneumococcal vaccination. He had an intact and functional spleen with a functional immune system. The patient presented with fever and diarrhea. He subsequently progressed to develop purpura fulminans and septic shock due to S. pneumoniae bacteremia. Despite an extensive search for the primary source of infection, none could not be identified. Due to timely initiation of appropriate antibiotic therapy and aggressive supportive care in an intensive care unit, he recovered despite multi-organ failure that developed throughout his hospitalization. CONCLUSIONS We present a rare manifestation of a potentially preventable disease and emphasize the importance of pneumococcal vaccination in order to decrease the risk of developing invasive pneumococcal disease. Furthermore, we discuss etiology, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and evidence-based management of purpura fulminans and invasive pneumococcal disease with a literature review. Purpura fulminans due to S. pneumoniae is exceedingly rare in immunocompetent patients and an unusual clinical manifestation of pneumococcal bacteremia.
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- Mayo Clinic, Alix School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, U.S.A
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- Mayo Clinic, Alix School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, U.S.A
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- Mayo Clinic, Alix School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, U.S.A
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Ou S, Wang X, Huang Y, Zhu YT, Wu ML, Zheng XR, Liu CT. [Acute fever with rash, necrosis, and bullae in both lower extremities in a 12-year-old girl]. ZHONGGUO DANG DAI ER KE ZA ZHI = CHINESE JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY PEDIATRICS 2020; 22:651-655. [PMID: 32571467 PMCID: PMC7390209 DOI: 10.7499/j.issn.1008-8830.2002079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2020] [Accepted: 05/07/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A girl, aged 12 years, was admitted due to fever and rash for 3 days. The child developed recurrent high fever and rash on both lower extremities 3 days before, and the rash on left lower extremity quickly merged into a patch within 24 hours, with hemorrhage and necrosis in black and purple, large vesicles, and blisters in the center. Laboratory examination showed a reduction in platelet count and significant increases in fibrinogen and D-dimer during the course of the disease. The child was diagnosed with purpura flulminans. She was given meropenem combined with linezolid for anti-infection, injection of gamma globulin for immunoregulation, and low-molecular-weight heparin for anticoagulation. The fluid in the rash blisters was drawn and the wound was treated to prevent infection. The child's temperature returned to normal, with improvement in gangrene. She was discharged after platelet count, fibrinogen, and D-dimer had returned to normal. Purpura fulminans is a rare thrombotic hemorrhagic disease with rapid progression and is commonly seen in children. Without timely treatment, it may cause severe sequelae with high disability and mortality rates. Anti-infection, correction of coagulation function, and local management of gangrene skin are of great importance during treatment.
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- Shuang Ou
- Department of Pediatrics, Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha 410008, China.
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Long B, Koyfman A, Gottlieb M. Complications in the adult asplenic patient: A review for the emergency clinician. Am J Emerg Med 2020; 44:452-457. [PMID: 32247651 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.03.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2020] [Revised: 03/23/2020] [Accepted: 03/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The spleen performs several important physiologic functions. However, patients can have functional asplenia or have their spleen removed for a number of reasons, which can put them at risk for several dangerous complications. OBJECTIVE This narrative review provides a focused evaluation of adult asplenic patients and complications in the emergency departing setting. DISCUSSION The spleen plays integral roles in the immune and reticuloendothelial systems and also modulates the inflammatory and coagulation cascades. Asplenia refers to the anatomic or physiologic loss of splenic function, which may be due to trauma, immunological, hematological, or oncological etiologies. Asplenic patients are at risk for several complications including infection, arterial and venous thrombosis, and pulmonary hypertension. Fever in an asplenic patient and overwhelming post-splenectomy infection (OPSI) are medical emergencies with a high mortality and require rapid evaluation and management with broad-spectrum antibiotics. Asplenic patients are at increased risk of arterial thrombosis, such as coronary artery disease, and venous thrombosis including deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and splenic and portal vein thrombosis. Management of venous thrombosis includes anticoagulation. Pulmonary hypertension with associated right ventricular dysfunction may also occur in asplenia. These patients require hemodynamic stabilization with an emphasis on inciting causes and treatment of the pulmonary hypertension. CONCLUSIONS The spleen is an integral organ involved in several physiologic functions. Asplenia, or absence of spleen function, is associated with severe complications. Knowledge of these complications can improve the care of these patients.
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- Brit Long
- Brooke Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, 3841 Roger Brooke Dr, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234, United States.
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- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390, United States
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, United States
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Chang JC. Sepsis and septic shock: endothelial molecular pathogenesis associated with vascular microthrombotic disease. Thromb J 2019; 17:10. [PMID: 31160889 PMCID: PMC6542012 DOI: 10.1186/s12959-019-0198-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 04/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
In addition to protective “immune response”, sepsis is characterized by destructive “endothelial response” of the host, leading to endotheliopathy and its molecular dysfunction. Complement activation generates membrane attack complex (MAC). MAC causes channel formation to the cell membrane of pathogen, leading to death of microorganisms. In the host, MAC also may induce channel formation to innocent bystander endothelial cells (ECs) and ECs cannot be protected. This provokes endotheliopathy, which activates two independent molecular pathways: inflammatory and microthrombotic. Activated inflammatory pathway promotes the release of inflammatory cytokines and triggers inflammation. Activated microthrombotic pathway mediates platelet activation and exocytosis of unusually large von Willebrand factor multimers (ULVWF) from ECs and initiates microthrombogenesis. Excessively released ULVWF become anchored to ECs as long elongated strings and recruit activated platelets to assemble platelet-ULVWF complexes and form “microthrombi”. These microthrombi strings trigger disseminated intravascular microthrombosis (DIT), which is the underlying pathology of endotheliopathy-associated vascular microthrombotic disease (EA-VMTD). Sepsis-induced endotheliopathy promotes inflammation and DIT. Inflammation produces inflammatory response and DIT orchestrates consumptive thrombocytopenia, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, and multiorgan dysfunction syndrome (MODS). Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is a combined phenotype of inflammation and endotheliopathy-associated (EA)-VMTD. Successful therapeutic design for sepsis can be achieved by counteracting the pathologic microthrombogenesis.
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- Jae C Chang
- Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA USA
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Valerio M, López-Medrano F, Regalado-Artamendi I, Muñoz P, Aguado JM, Bouza E. A patient with a rapidly lethal pneumonia after a visit to a touristic area in rural Leon (Spain). REVISTA ESPANOLA DE QUIMIOTERAPIA : PUBLICACION OFICIAL DE LA SOCIEDAD ESPANOLA DE QUIMIOTERAPIA 2018; 31:367-373. [PMID: 29953175 PMCID: PMC6172680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- Maricela Valerio
- Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain,Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital 12 de Octubre. Madrid, Spain. Instituto de Investigación Biomédica i+12, Madrid, Spain,Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain,Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain,CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital 12 de Octubre. Madrid, Spain. Instituto de Investigación Biomédica i+12, Madrid, Spain,Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain,Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain,CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain
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