Life-threatening septic shock in a pregnant woman with ileus.
Septic shock during pregnancy is very rare but has high mortality. We report a case of septic shock in a pregnant woman with ileus, showing that severe ileus in a pregnant woman could be attributed to life-threatening septic shock and that we should give special attention to a nosocomial infection.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.
Katsuhiko
K
Hiromura
Madoka
M
Furuhashi
Kojiro
K
Minami
Ken
K
Miyazaki
Kana
K
Yoshida
Naohiko
N
Kuno
Kaoru
K
Ishikawa
D000328:Adult; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000382:microbiology; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000175:diagnosis; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D045823:Ileus / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007710:Klebsiella Infections / Q000188:drug therapy; D007711:Klebsiella pneumoniae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology; D020615:Stenotrophomonas maltophilia / Q000302:isolation & purification