Pneumococcal-associated purpura fulminans in a healthy infant

Pediatr Emerg Care. 2004 Aug;20(8):528-30. doi: 10.1097/01.pec.0000136070.52822.cc.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cefotaxime / therapeutic use
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Debridement
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Fever / etiology
  • Foot / blood supply
  • Gangrene
  • Hand / blood supply
  • Humans
  • IgA Vasculitis / drug therapy
  • IgA Vasculitis / etiology*
  • IgA Vasculitis / surgery
  • Immunocompetence
  • Infant
  • Ischemia / etiology
  • Male
  • Physical Therapy Modalities
  • Plasma
  • Plastic Surgery Procedures
  • Pneumococcal Infections / complications*
  • Pneumococcal Infections / drug therapy
  • Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / complications
  • Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / drug therapy
  • Sepsis / complications*
  • Sepsis / drug therapy
  • Skin Transplantation
  • Vancomycin / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Vancomycin
  • Cefotaxime