Toxic shock syndrome complicated by laryngeal oedema.
A 50-year-old woman was admitted as an acute medical emergency and was diagnosed as having toxic shock syndrome. Thirty-six hours after admission she went into hepato-renal failure and had disseminated intravascular coagulation. She developed severe laryngeal oedema, a complication which has not been reported previously, and was intubated with great difficulty. She recovered from this, but died 5 weeks after the presentation of a pulmonary embolus.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007819:Laryngeal Edema / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000150:complications*; D013577:Syndrome