title: Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation in a patient with Fusobacterium sepsis: a case report and review of literature.
abstract: An adolescent female was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit in septic shock. She developed multisystem organ dysfunction including pancreatitis with myocardial dysfunction and hemodynamic instability unresponsive to medical management necessitating veno-arterial extracorporeal support. Streptococcus Constellata and Fusobacterium necrophorum were isolated from blood cultures. This is the first report of extra-corporeal cardiac support in fusobacterium sepsis.
authors: Children's Hospital of Iowa, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. sameer-kamath@uiowa.edu
authors: Sameer S
authors: SS
authors: Kamath
authors: Katherine
authors: K
authors: Mason
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; D005260:Female; D005674:Fusobacterium Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D005675:Fusobacterium necrophorum / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000382:microbiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D057831:Lemierre Syndrome / Q000382:microbiology; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000382:microbiology; D018805:Sepsis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D034365:Streptococcus constellatus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016896:Treatment Outcome