{"pk":443,"title":"Fatal Vibrio vulnificus Bacteremia in Two Cirrhotic Patients with Abdominal Pain and Misty Mesentery","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Two cirrhotic patients with unexplained abdominal pain deteriorated rapidly and fatally after presenting to our emergency department. Abdominal computed tomography in both patients showed “misty mesentery”, which could not be explained by other etiologies. Both blood cultures revealed \nVibrio vulnificus\n, which suggested the possible correlation of CT-finding and bacteremia.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Case Reports","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3wb6w7dm","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ket-Cheong","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lim","name_suffix":"","institution":"Shin Kong Memorial Wu Ho-Su Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei,\nTaiwan","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Yin-Ling","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tan","name_suffix":"","institution":"Shin Kong Memorial Wu Ho-Su Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei,\nTaiwan","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Chin-Chu","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wu","name_suffix":"","institution":"Shin Kong Memorial Wu Ho-Su Hospital, Department of Medical Imaging, Taipei, Taiwan","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Li-Wei","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lin","name_suffix":"","institution":"Shin Kong Memorial Wu Ho-Su Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei,\nTaiwan\nFu Jen Catholic University, School of Medicine, New Taipei City, Taiwan","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2017-10-06T15:58:00Z","date_accepted":"2017-10-06T15:58:00Z","date_published":"2017-10-06T15:58:41Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uciem_cpcem/article/443/galley/207/download/"}]}