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Ehec four patients and one suspected case
Ehec four patients and one suspected case - that saw the balance yesterday from the Heidelberg University Hospital. When on 1 Deceased patient was in June, according to the Ministry of Social Affairs Stuttgart Ehec probably not the cause of renal failure, and further investigations are still ongoing. There are three women and one man in the intensive care or in the monitoring station of gastroenterology. And by no means with newly emerged pathogens EHEC, but with late effects of the disease. Bloody diarrhea and kidney failure had overcome the four patients already, and now they are suffering from neurological disorders such as seizures or Wortfindungsst?rungen.Diese neurological problems, said Prof. Vedat Schwenger, senior physician in the Kidney Center at the University Hospital, were the unusual to the infection with the new EHEC pathogens . Almost every second patient, who after EHEC infection in the hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) disease develop, followed by neurological symptoms. Culprit is the Shiga toxin produced by EHEC bacteria.
The antibody eculizumab is used in two of the Heidelberg patients for a week, he worked wonders so far. By 'discrete improvements' yesterday said Prof. Uta Merle, the Executive Medical Director of Gastroenterology. But whether the drug, which is provided free of charge by the manufacturer, actually responsible for the slight improvement is, no one can say. Also, nationwide, there are no findings on this. The EHEC pathogen is in the Hygiene Institute of the University Hospital identified within 24 to 36 hours and demonstrated by toxin production and antibiotic resistance. Then the seeds for further characterization of the Provincial Health Office and from there be passed on to the Robert Koch Institute.
http://www.rnz.de/z10/00_20110604081900_Vier_Ehec_Patienten_und_ein_Verdachtsfall.html
Ehec four patients and one suspected case - that saw the balance yesterday from the Heidelberg University Hospital. When on 1 Deceased patient was in June, according to the Ministry of Social Affairs Stuttgart Ehec probably not the cause of renal failure, and further investigations are still ongoing. There are three women and one man in the intensive care or in the monitoring station of gastroenterology. And by no means with newly emerged pathogens EHEC, but with late effects of the disease. Bloody diarrhea and kidney failure had overcome the four patients already, and now they are suffering from neurological disorders such as seizures or Wortfindungsst?rungen.Diese neurological problems, said Prof. Vedat Schwenger, senior physician in the Kidney Center at the University Hospital, were the unusual to the infection with the new EHEC pathogens . Almost every second patient, who after EHEC infection in the hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) disease develop, followed by neurological symptoms. Culprit is the Shiga toxin produced by EHEC bacteria.
The antibody eculizumab is used in two of the Heidelberg patients for a week, he worked wonders so far. By 'discrete improvements' yesterday said Prof. Uta Merle, the Executive Medical Director of Gastroenterology. But whether the drug, which is provided free of charge by the manufacturer, actually responsible for the slight improvement is, no one can say. Also, nationwide, there are no findings on this. The EHEC pathogen is in the Hygiene Institute of the University Hospital identified within 24 to 36 hours and demonstrated by toxin production and antibiotic resistance. Then the seeds for further characterization of the Provincial Health Office and from there be passed on to the Robert Koch Institute.
http://www.rnz.de/z10/00_20110604081900_Vier_Ehec_Patienten_und_ein_Verdachtsfall.html