Pendyala Manogna, Kaur Purnoor, Jain Mansi, Tahir Ayesha, Khatri Vinod
Department of Internal Medicine, Mercy Health - St. Vincent Medical Center, Toledo, USA.
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mercy Health - St. Vincent Medical Center, Toledo, USA.
Cureus. 2025 Mar 28;17(3):e81365. doi: 10.7759/cureus.81365. eCollection 2025 Mar.
is commonly associated with skin and soft tissue infections after animal bites and is rarely associated with epiglottitis, which is a life-threatening condition. Here, we describe a patient with epiglottitis secondary to infection and bacteremia who required transnasal fiberoptic intubation and was treated with intravenous (IV) ampicillin-sulbactam, who responded well to the treatment with complete resolution of symptoms.
通常与动物咬伤后的皮肤和软组织感染有关,很少与会厌炎相关,会厌炎是一种危及生命的疾病。在此,我们描述了一名继发于感染和菌血症的会厌炎患者,该患者需要经鼻纤维支气管镜插管,并接受静脉注射氨苄西林-舒巴坦治疗,患者对治疗反应良好,症状完全缓解。