Diagnosis of TTP is often difficult since it often manifests oligosymptomatic exhibiting only laboratory signs of thrombocytopenia and hemolysis or involving atypical organs.
HHV-6 is the etiologic agent of exanthem subitum, a pediatric illness that may be associated with clinical and laboratory signs of central nervous system involvement.
They then developed local, systemic, US and laboratory signs of surgical site infection.
Clinically evident and laboratory signs of organ failure were defined as in the PIRO score [17].
No patient showed any clinical or laboratory signs of infection right up to the most recent follow-up.
In the absence of clinical and laboratory signs of infection, thin peripheral contrast enhancement (arrows in b) was observed.
Intractable flank and abdominal pain with laboratory signs of blood loss (6.2 mg/dl nadir haemoglobin) led to urgent contrast-enhanced multiphase MDCT hours after the procedure.
Introduction: In patients receiving anti-cancer therapy, clinical and laboratory signs of treatment-related toxicity may coincide with the sepsis criteria, which makes early diagnosis difficult.
In summary, the presence of clinically recognizable signs of organ failure results in better compliance with the "Surviving Sepsis Campaign" compared to laboratory signs of organ failure.
Within the first 2 or 3 postoperative days after PD, the commonest indications for CT imaging include suspected early haemorrhage, peritonitis, physical and laboratory signs of systemic inflammation.
The presence of local signs (warmth, redness, swelling, tenderness and fluid discharge), US signs (abscess) and laboratory signs (elevated CRP) of surgical site infection convinced us to schedule immediate irrigation and debridement (ID) within 1 week from complication onset.
