Medical treatment of a central vein suppurative thrombosis with cerebral metastatic abscesses in a burned child

Burns. 2001 Sep;27(6):662-3. doi: 10.1016/s0305-4179(01)00027-4.

Abstract

A 2-year-old girl admitted with third degree burns (35% TBSA) received 7 weeks poly-antibiotic therapy combined with heparin for a severe Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus sepsis with multiple metastatic abscesses (lung, skin, brain), from a suppurative thrombophlebitis of the right jugularis interna, extended to the axillary and cava superior veins. Surgical treatment was contraindicated by the local extension. The child was discharged without major neurological sequelae 3 months after admission.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abscess / etiology
  • Abscess / therapy
  • Bacterial Infections / etiology*
  • Brain Abscess / etiology*
  • Brain Abscess / therapy
  • Burns / microbiology
  • Burns / therapy*
  • Candidiasis / etiology
  • Catheterization, Central Venous / adverse effects*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Jugular Veins
  • Skin Diseases, Infectious / etiology
  • Skin Diseases, Infectious / therapy
  • Venous Thrombosis / etiology*
  • Venous Thrombosis / microbiology
  • Venous Thrombosis / therapy