Case - A 72-Year-Old Man with a Rapidly Progressive Sepsis Caused by a Rare But Life-Threatening Infection

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A 72-Year-Old Man with a Rapidly Progressive Sepsis Caused by a Rare But Life-Threatening Infection

Presented by:	Netherlands Journal of Medicine / A.P. Bech and R. Komdeur
Summary points:	A 72-year-old man with a history of colon cancer presents to the emergency department with fever and abdominal pain. Physical examination, laboratory data, and treatment are described. The authors discuss a rapidly progressive sepsis caused by clostridial gas gangrene, a rare but serious disorder which requires timely recognition in order to initiate an early and specific therapy to prevent death.
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