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Shen A, Ologun GO, Behm R. Fulminant Hepatic Failure and Fatal Cerebral Edema Following Clostridium perfringens Bacteremia: Case Report and Review of Literature. Cureus. 2017;9(9):e1714doi: 10.7759/cureus.1714.
Shen, A., Ologun, G. O., & Behm, R. (2017). Fulminant Hepatic Failure and Fatal Cerebral Edema Following Clostridium perfringens Bacteremia: Case Report and Review of Literature. Cureus, 9(9), e1714. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1714
Shen, Alice, et al. "Fulminant Hepatic Failure and Fatal Cerebral Edema Following Clostridium perfringens Bacteremia: Case Report and Review of Literature." Cureus vol. 9,9 (2017): e1714. doi: https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1714
Shen A, Ologun GO, Behm R. Fulminant Hepatic Failure and Fatal Cerebral Edema Following Clostridium perfringens Bacteremia: Case Report and Review of Literature. Cureus. 2017 Sep 26;9(9):e1714. doi: 10.7759/cureus.1714. PMID: 29188158; PMCID: PMC5703590.
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Cureus. 2017 Sep 26;9(9):e1714. doi: 10.7759/cureus.1714.

Fulminant Hepatic Failure and Fatal Cerebral Edema Following Clostridium perfringens Bacteremia: Case Report and Review of Literature.

Cureus

Alice Shen, Gabriel O Ologun, Robert Behm

Affiliations

  1. General Surgery, Guthrie Clinic/Robert Packer Hospital.
  2. Trauma/Critical Care, Guthrie Clinic/Robert Packer Hospital.

PMID: 29188158 PMCID: PMC5703590 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.1714

Abstract

Clostridium perfringens (CP) bacteremia is a rare but rapidly fatal infection. Only 36 cases of CP bacteremia with gas containing liver abscesses on image studies have been reported in the literature since 1990. In this report, we describe a 65-year-old diabetic male with CP bacteremia which progressed into fulminant hepatic failure with subsequent fatal cerebral edema.

Keywords: clostridium perfringens; diabetes mellitus; fatal cerebral edema; fulminant liver failure; hepatic abscesses

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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