1. Patient 4 is a 56-year-old woman with a baseline blood pressure of 156/68 who developed a thigh abscess with culture growing mixed flora (Klebsiella pneumonial and enterococci).
Patient 4 is a 56-year-old woman with a baseline blood pressure of 156/68 who developed a thigh abscess with culture growing mixed flora (Klebsiella pneumonial and enterococci). She developed MOD (coagulopathy, acute respiratory distress syndrome, acute renal failure, liver failure, and shock liver). On day 27 of intensive treatment of her infection and multiorgan failure, the patient developed altered mentation followed by a generalized seizure and blood pressure of 164/75 mm Hg.A-D, Brain MR imaging (FLAIR sequence) obtained the 1-day after neurotoxicity demonstrates severe and extensive vasogenic edema primarily involving the subcortical white matter of the parietal (curved arrows), occipital (open arrows), and temporal lobe regions (arrowheads) bilaterally with ventricular distortion from edema judged grade 5.
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