Thrombotic Microangiopathy Secondary to Capnocytophaga Sepsis: A Case Report
Mohamed Abdelsalam, Amin H Alayyan, Ahmed Elamin, Elizabeth S Goh, Adeel Bin Tariq · 2025
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Abdelsalam and four co-authors reported this case in twenty twenty-five of a rare blood disorder tied to infection. The germ, Capnocytophaga, lives in animal mouths and can cause severe sepsis in people. The infection triggered thrombotic microangiopathy, a condition where tiny clots form in small vessels. That picture can look just like a primary clotting disease with a different cause.
Slow growth makes the germ hard to detect in the lab. The team stresses that telling infection-driven cases from primary ones decides the treatment. Their patient recovered with antibiotics alone, without the plasma therapy the look-alike disease demands. The case argues for early suspicion when sepsis and micro-clots appear together.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mohamed Abdelsalam, Amin H Alayyan, Ahmed Elamin, Elizabeth S Goh, Adeel Bin Tariq |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |