title: A Case of Clostridium perfringens Septicemia with Fatal Hemolytic Complication.
abstract: Massive intravascular hemolysis secondary to Clostridium perfringens septicemia is rare but often fatal. We report a case of a fatal clostridial hemolytic complication in a 71-year-old woman with probable refractory anemia. The patient was admitted to the emergency room due to a comatose mental state and a high fever. Laboratory analysis showed massive hemolysis. She died from severe anemia two hours after admission. The next day, blood cultures grew gram positive cocci and boxcarshaped gram positive rods, which were identified as coagulase-negative staphylococci and C. perfringens, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea. oogonia@edunet4u.net.
authors.forename: Ohgun
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kwon
authors.forename: Ho Young
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Young
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Uh
authors.forename: Gyu Yel
authors.initials: GY
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: Hyo Youl
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Kap Jun
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Yoon