2 results for “overwhelming post-splenectomy infection (opsi)”
6y · Female·Brain stem herniation due to pneumococcal meningitis
Lilli Sweet, a 6-year-old asplenic child with hereditary spherocytosis, died from pneumococcal meningitis with brain stem herniation. She presented to Nambour Hospital ED with vomiting, diarrhea, and headache on 25 Augus…
78y · Male·Complications of bowel surgery; specifically post-operative chest infection and …
…ng. Surgical repair proceeded on 9 August with right hemicolectomy. Post-operatively, he developed chest infection on day 4, progressing to sepsis and multi-organ failure. Death resulted from post-operative complication…
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