Multiple Coagulative Defects in a Patient with the Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome
- 1 April 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 56 (4) , 627-632
- https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-56-4-627
Abstract
Afibrino-genemia and other coagulation defects were detected in a fatal case of Waterhouse-Friderischsen syndrome caused by pneumococcus type Xa. The patient, a 17-year-old girl, had had a splenectomy previously for hereditary spherocytosis. The pathogenesis of the abnormalities was unexplained.Keywords
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