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Volume 8, Issue 9 (Suppl)
J AIDS Clin Res
ISSN: 2155-6113 JAR, an open access journal
STD Asia Pacific 2017
October 23-25, 2017
OCTOBER 23-25, 2017 OSAKA, JAPAN
7
TH
ASIA PACIFIC
STD and Infectious Diseases Congress
Toxic shock syndrome due to
Streptococcus pyogenes
in an 80 year’s old post-knee arthroplasty patient:
A case report
Jenny Mae A Quinivista Yoon and Ryan M Llorin
St. Luke’s Medical Center-Global City, Philippines
P
rosthetic Joint Infection (PJI) is one of the leading causes of arthroplasty failure. A high incidence of PJI follows
Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative
Staphylococci
. On the other hand,
Streptococcus pyogenes
PJI is extremely
rare with only a very few case reports in the literature. Toxic shock syndrome resulting from
Streptococcus pyogenes
infection,
however, has a reported mortality rate as high as 30 to 70%, hence early recognition of this potentially fatal infection is crucial
to the successful management of patients. In this article, we report a case of an 80 year’s old male who developed streptococcal
toxic shock syndrome in association with a severe group-A streptococcal infection of the knee after a total knee arthroplasty
done two years ago.
yoon_jenny@yahoo.comJ AIDS Clin Res 2017, 8:9 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2155-6113-C1-021