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ArticleBMJ case reports2018

Teenage boy with high fever and rash: what could we be missing?

Gracinda Nogueira Oliveira, Sofia Costa, Filipa Dias Costa, Teresa Dionísio, Leonor Carvalho

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gracinda Nogueira OliveiraDepartment of Paediatrics, Hospital Pediátrico de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2072-8491
Sofia CostaDepartment of Paediatrics, Hospital Pediátrico de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Filipa Dias CostaPaediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Pediátrico de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Teresa DionísioPaediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Pediátrico de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Leonor CarvalhoPaediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Pediátrico de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 15-year-old boy was admitted to a local hospital with high fever, generalised rash and a mild sore throat. He was started on intravenous flucloxacillin and 12 hours later develops a sustained low diastolic blood pressure (DBP), unresponsive to fluid volume expansion and cardiovascular support with dopamine. Intravenous clindamycin was added and transportation to paediatric intensive care unit arranged. Dopamine dosing was increased and norepinephrine infusion was added subsequently with immediate stabilisation of DBP. A sacrococcygeal pilonidal abscess was identified, requiring prompt surgical drainage. The microbiological culture of abscess material was positive for an enterotoxin-producing

Indexed as

AdolescentAnti-Bacterial AgentsDrainageExanthemaFever of Unknown OriginFloxacillinHumansMalePilonidal SinusShock, SepticStaphylococcal InfectionsStaphylococcus aureusTreatment OutcomeAnti-Bacterial AgentsFloxacillininfectious diseasespaediatric intensive carepaediatric surgery

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PMID29437816
PMCPMC5836690
OpenAlexW2786419772

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