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Massive Intravascular Hemolysis: A Fatal Complication of Clostridium Perfringens Septicemia in a Patient with Acute Myeloid Leukemia

George Vaiopoulos First Department of Internal Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Laikon General Hospital, Athens, GreeceCorrespondence[email protected]
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Christin Calpadaki First Department of Internal Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Laikon General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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Haris Sinifakoulis First Department of Internal Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Laikon General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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Kostas Konstantopoulos First Department of Internal Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Laikon General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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Athina Avlami First Department of Internal Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Laikon General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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Joanna Stefanou First Department of Internal Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Laikon General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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Gerassimos A Pangalis First Department of Internal Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Laikon General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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Pages 2157-2159 | Received 16 Mar 2003, Published online: 03 Aug 2009

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Maria Teresa Pirrotta, Alessandro Bucalossi, Francesco Forconi, Alessandro Gozzetti, Monica Bocchia, Serena Mazzotta, Simona Sammassimo & Francesco Lauria. (2005) Massive intravascular hemolysis: a fatal complication of septicemia in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Leukemia & Lymphoma 46:5, pages 793-793.
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Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Yukihiro Wada, Mamiko Uchida, Koju Kamata & Yasuo Takeuchi. (2023) Emphysematous cholecystitis and infective pseudoaneurysm caused by <i>clostridium perfringens</i> in an elderly hemodialysis patient under immunosuppressive therapy, against which PMX-DHP and endovascular stent grafting were effective<i>Clostridium perfringens</i>による気腫性胆囊炎と仮性大動脈瘤を伴う感染性大動脈炎を発症し，PMX-DHPと血管内ステントグラフト挿入で救命し得た免疫抑制下高齢維持透析患者の1例. Nihon Toseki Igakkai Zasshi 56:1, pages 11-17.
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Fuhong Liu, Song Xue, Yongping Zhang, Jingxian Yang, Jiajun Hu, Di Li, Xiaojun Ma & Jingbo Wang. (2021) Clostridium perfringens sepsis in three patients with acute leukemia and review of the literature. International Journal of Hematology 113:4, pages 508-517.
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Toru Hifumi. (2020) Spontaneous Non-Traumatic <i>Clostridium perfringens</i> Sepsis. Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases 73:3, pages 177-180.
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M.ª Fátima Lopez-Fabal, Nuria Sanz, Mario Ruiz-Bastian, Carlos Barros & Jose-Luis Gomez-Garces. (2018) Clostridium perfringens bacteraemia, an analysis of 28 cases over 10 years in a university hospital of Madrid. Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica (English ed.) 36:4, pages 225-228.
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Hiroshi Fujita, Shigeko Nishimura, Saiko Kurosawa, Itsuo Akiya, Fukumi Nakamura-Uchiyama & Kenji Ohnishi. (2010) Clinical and Epidemiological Features of Clostridium perfringens Bacteremia: A Review of 18 Cases over 8 Year-Period in a Tertiary Care Center in Metropolitan Tokyo Area in Japan. Internal Medicine 49:22, pages 2433-2437.
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Amit Uppal, Kenneth Hymes & David R. Schwartz. (2009) A 61-Year-Old-Man With Massive Intravascular Hemolysis. Chest 136:5, pages 1424-1427.
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S. D. BOYD, B. C. MOBLEY, D. P. REGULA & D. A. ARBER. (2009) Features of hemolysis due to Clostridium perfringens infection . International Journal of Laboratory Hematology 31:3, pages 364-367.
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