IPLab:Lab 4:Septic Emboli: Difference between revisions
Seung Park (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
|||
| (3 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
== Clinical Summary == | == Clinical Summary == | ||
This 4-year-old female sustained second and third degree burns involving approximately forty percent of the body surface. Subsequently, she developed septicemia secondary to skin infection and died in septic shock on the 10th hospital day. Antemortem blood cultures were positive for Enterobacter aerogenes and Staphylococcus aureus. | This 4-year-old female sustained second and third degree burns involving approximately forty percent of the body surface. Subsequently, she developed septicemia secondary to skin infection and died in septic shock on the 10th hospital day. Antemortem blood cultures were positive for Enterobacter aerogenes and Staphylococcus aureus. | ||
Postmortem findings included (1) multiple abscesses diffusely distributed throughout the parenchyma of the lung and heart, (2) lobular pneumonia, and (3) visceral congestion. | |||
Postmortem findings included (1) multiple abscesses diffusely distributed throughout the parenchyma of the lung and heart, (2) lobular pneumonia, and (3) visceral congestion. | |||
== Images == | == Images == | ||
| Line 18: | Line 16: | ||
File:IPLab4SepticEmboli8.jpg|This is a high-powered photomicrograph of a myocardial abscess stained with a special tissue Gram stain (Brown & Brenn) to illustrate the colonies of bacteria in this myocardial tissue (arrows). | File:IPLab4SepticEmboli8.jpg|This is a high-powered photomicrograph of a myocardial abscess stained with a special tissue Gram stain (Brown & Brenn) to illustrate the colonies of bacteria in this myocardial tissue (arrows). | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
== Virtual Microscopy == | |||
<peir-vm>IPLab4SepticEmboli</peir-vm> | |||
== Study Questions == | == Study Questions == | ||
| Line 35: | Line 36: | ||
=== Images === | === Images === | ||
* [ | * [{{SERVER}}/library/index.php?/tags/732-vasculitis_due_to_septic_embolus PEIR Digital Library: Vasculitis Due to Septic Embolus Images] | ||
* [http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/LUNGHTML/LUNGIDX.html#7 WebPath: Pulmonary Thromboembolus] | * [http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/LUNGHTML/LUNGIDX.html#7 WebPath: Pulmonary Thromboembolus] | ||
* [http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/ATHHTML/ATHIDX.html WebPath: Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis] | * [http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/ATHHTML/ATHIDX.html WebPath: Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis] | ||