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Severe Course of Morbus Lemierre Necessitating Extracorporeal Life Support

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Received: 02-Nov-2017

Accepted: 30-Nov-2017

Published: 04-Dec-2017

Case Report | Volume 3 - Issue 7 | Article DOI :

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Stephanie Kraus¹, Andreas Kremser¹, Marcus Creutzenberg¹, Hermann Hilber², Reiner Neu³, Alois Philipp³, Stephan Schroll⁴, Bernhard Graf¹, Thomas Bein¹, and Andreas Redel¹*

¹Department of Anesthesiology, University Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany

²Department of Otolaryngology, University Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany

³Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany

?Department of Medicine, Barmherzige Brüder Hospital, Regensburg, Germany

Corresponding Author:

Andreas Redel, Facharzt für Anästhesiologie, Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauß-Allee 11, 93053 Regensburg, Germany, Email: andreas.redel@ukr.de

Abstract

Lemierre’s disease, also known as Post-Angina-Sepsis, describes an acute oropharyngeal infection caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum that is complicated by thrombophlebitis of the V. jugularis interna and septic pulmonary emboli. Sepsis and pulmonary embolism may result in life-threatening hemodynamic instability affording interdisciplinary intensive care. Here we report about the life-threatening course of M. lemierre in a young female patient with successful surgical and anti-infective treatment supported by veno-arterial ECMO therapy.

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Kraus S, Kremser A, Creutzenberg M, Hilber H, Neu R, Philipp A, et al. Severe Course of Morbus Lemierre Necessitating Extracorporeal Life Support. SM J Case Rep. 2017; 3(7): 1070.