Hsia Renee Yuen-Jan, Wang Ewen, Thanassi Wendy T
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, USA.
J Emerg Med. 2009 Jul;37(1):21-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2007.11.083. Epub 2008 Jul 26.
The presenting symptoms of meningococcemia are protean, and the illness is rapidly progressive and often fatal, making it simultaneously one of the most dangerous and most important illnesses the Emergency Physician can encounter. It attacks the young and it is highly contagious. This report uses one of the many unusual presentations of meningococcemia as a framework for discussing the epidemiology, presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of meningococcal disease.
脑膜炎球菌血症的临床表现多种多样，病情进展迅速且往往致命，这使其成为急诊医生可能遇到的最危险且最重要的疾病之一。它侵袭年轻人，且具有高度传染性。本报告以脑膜炎球菌血症众多不寻常的表现之一为框架，来讨论脑膜炎球菌病的流行病学、临床表现、诊断和治疗。
