- 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.