title: [Multiorgan failure due to chronic granulomatous disease].
abstract: A 21-year-old male patient developed an acute septic clinical picture with intra-abdominal abscesses and multiorgan failure. The underlying disease was chronic granulomatous disease, an inherited disorder of granulocyte function caused by failure of intracellular superoxide production. In spite of surgical procedures and a calculated antibiotic and antimycotic therapy, the patient died within a few days from septic shock. This case report describes the typical problems of patients with a congenital immunodeficiency who grow out of the care of highly specialised pediatric-immunological departments.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Anästhesiologie und operative Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Charité, Campus Virchow-Klinikum Berlin, Germany. anne.rueggeberg@charite.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rüggeberg
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Deja
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Kaisers
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Steinmüller
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Keske
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Falke
mesh_terms: D018784:Abdominal Abscess / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008230:Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D013481:Superoxides / Q000378:metabolism; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D013481:Superoxides