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ArticleCureus2025

Fulminant Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus Pneumonia in a Steroid-Treated Patient With End-Stage Renal Disease: A Rapidly Fatal Case.

Satoshi Yoshizaki, Keiki Shimizu

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Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. CutaneousInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Satoshi YoshizakiDepartment of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Tokyo, JPN.
Keiki ShimizuDepartment of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, ECMO Center, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Tokyo, JPN.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A man in his 50s with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) secondary to gouty nephropathy and on chronic methylprednisolone therapy presented with acute-onset weakness, severe hyperkalemia, metabolic acidosis, and lactic acidemia. Emergency hemodialysis was initiated; however, within hours, he developed respiratory failure and progressive shock. Imaging revealed rapidly evolving right-dominant pneumonia. Despite escalation to broad-spectrum antibiotics, mechanical ventilation, and veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO), the patient died within 28 hours of admission. An autopsy revealed fulminant necrotizing pneumonia due to methicillin-sensitive

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antibiotic administration in management of severe sepsiscardiac pulmonary arrest (cpa)chronic methylprednisolone therapycontinuous hemodialysis and filtrationfulminant methicillin-sensitive staphylococcus aureus pneumoniagouty nephropathyhemodialysisorgan failure from sepsispanton–valentine leukocidin (pvl)-associated s. aureus infectionvenoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (va-ecmo)

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PMID40525013
PMCPMC12168823

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