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CASE REPORT
Secondary asplenia as a complication of severe Meningococcal Sepsis
  1. Lourdes Castillo-Campos,
  2. Luis Bachiller-Carnicero,
  3. María José Megía-Sevilla,
  4. María Isabel González-Tomé
  1. Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  1. Correspondence to Dr Lourdes Castillo-Campos, loucascam{at}gmail.com

Summary

We report the case of an 11-month-old infant who had a medical history of meningococcal septicaemia 6 months prior to this admission and presented to hospital with an episode of fever due to Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteraemia. During this second admission, an abdominal ultrasound scan revealed secondary asplenia.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2016-217167

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors LC-C designed and organized the report and wrote the conclusions. LB-C wrote the discussion and chose the US images. MJM-S wrote the clinical case. MIG-T reviewed the report.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.