%0 Journal Article
%T Invasive group B streptococcal infection in a patient with post splenectomy for hypersplenism secondary to liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension
%A Arisa Manabe
%A Hajime Shishido
%A Hideyuki Hamaya
%A Hikari Matsumura
%A Kenya Kawakita
%A Koshiro Takano
%A Masanobu Hagiike
%A Nastuyo Shinohara
%A Satoshi Egawa
%A Tomoya Okazaki
%A Toru Hifumi
%A Yasuhiro Kuroda
%A Yuko Abe
%J Archive of "World Journal of Emergency Medicine".
%D 2016
%R 10.5847/wjem.j.1920-8642.2016.01.013
%X Splenectomy in patients with liver cirrhosis (LC) is expected to become more common owing to its efficacy on portal hemodynamics. In this report we describe an alarming case of group B streptococcus (GBS) infection after splenectomy in a patient with LC
%K Group B streptococcal infection
%K Splenectomy
%K Liver cirrhosis
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4786504/