著者
Toshio Naito Keiko Kume Kazunori Mitsuhashi Tetsu Okumura Hiroshi Isonuma Takashi Dambara Koichi Suda Yasuo Hayashida
出版者
日本プライマリ・ケア連合学会
雑誌
General Medicine (ISSN:13460072)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.7, no.1, pp.21-24, 2006 (Released:2010-06-08)
参考文献数
16
被引用文献数
1

We recently encountered a case of fatal pneumococcal infection in a previously healthy 19-year-old female. She had no history of splenectomy, but on autopsy she was found to have hyposplenism. It has been widely reported that life-threatening pneumococcal infection can occur after splenectomy, though cases of hyposplenic or asplenic adults, without a history of splenectomy, are very rare. We report this case and review the literature dealing with 6 similar cases.