title: Fulminant meningococcal sepsis in a woman with previously unknown hyposplenism.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA. Anita.Shah@NA.AMEDD.ARMY.MIL
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Lettieri
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013158:Splenic Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014884:Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*