Category Medical Specialty
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Meningococcemia

Meningococcemia: Neisseria meningitidis bacteraemia -> endotoxin mediated fulminant multi-organ failure; mortality 10-12%

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Mucormycosis

Mucormycosis is the unifying term used to describe infections caused by fungi belonging to the order Mucorales (e.g. Rhizopus, Rhizomucor, Mucor, and Absidia).

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Diabetic Ketoacidosis

Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) potentially life-threatening complication of diabetes mellitus resulting from the consequences of insulin deficiency

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Clostridium difficile and PMC

Pseudomembranous colitis (PMC); acute inflammatory disease of colon commonly associated with antibiotic use; C. difficile implicated as a causative organism in 1970’s

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Portopulmonary syndrome

Portopulmonary Syndrome is NOT considered contraindication to liver transplantation; affects ~20% of pre-transplant patients; usually due to increased blood flow through the lungs without increased resistance

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Storage Lesions

Storage lesions are the adverse effects associated with the storage of blood; begins after about 2 weeks of storage and progresses with duration of storage ('RBC age')

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Infective Endocarditis

infective endocarditis is a disease characterised by inflammation of the endocardium, typically affecting the heart valves and usually caused by infection and can be acute, subacute or chronic