Hội chứng sốc nhiễm độc
Also known as TSS, toxic shock, septic shock syndrome
condition caused by bacterial toxins
Key facts
- Specialty
- Infectious disease
- Symptoms
- Fever , rash , skin peeling , low blood pressure
- Complications
- Shock, kidney failure
- Usual onset
- Rapid
- Types
- Staphylococcal (menstrual and nonmenstrual), streptococcal
- Causes
- Streptococcus pyogenes , Staphylococcus aureus , others
- Risk factors
- Very absorbent tampons , skin lesions in young children
- Diagnostic method
- Based on symptoms
- Differential diagnosis
- Sepsis , Septic shock , Kawasaki's disease , Stevens–Johnson syndrome , scarlet fever
- Treatment
- Antibiotics , incision and drainage of any abscesses , intravenous immunoglobulin
- Prognosis
- Risk of death: ~50% (streptococcal), ~5% (staphylococcal)