PRAGUE MEDICAL REPORT
PRAGUE MEDICAL REPORT
Prague Medical Report is an English quarterly published multidisciplinary biomedical journal. Prague Medical Report was founded as Sborník lékařský in May 1885. The journal presents public primary scientific publications, short communications, casuistry, and reviews. It contains articles based on important specialised lectures and symposia.

PRAGUE MEDICAL REPORT, Vol 122 No 3 (2021), 212–215

Fatal Neutropenic Colitis and Clostridium Septicum Bacteremia in a Breast Cancer Patient

Michal Holub, David Řezáč, Martina Čurdová

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23362936.2021.18
published online: 01. 10. 2021

abstract

A fatal case of 67-year-old female with metastatic breast cancer on chemotherapy complicated with febrile neutropenia, colitis and sepsis due to Clostridium septicum is presented. Important clinical symptoms, laboratory and radiology findings together with therapy and outcome of neuropenic colitis are also discussed.

keywords: febrile neutropenia; colitis; sepsis; clostridium septicum

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