Khaled Menif, Asma Hamdi, Ammar Khaldi, Asma Bouziri, Kalthoum Kazdaghli, Sarra Bel Hadj, Amel Kechrid, Najla Ben Jaballah
AIM: To evaluate the diagnostic delay and therapeutic insufficiencies delay before the transfer in ICU of the children admitted in the ICU of the children's hospital of Tunis with a purpura fulminans (PF). METHODS: A retrospective, descriptive study, of children with PF referred between January 2000 and January 2006 to a the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of the children's hospital of Tunis. The PF diagnosis was retained in any child presenting a feverish purpura and circulatory insufficiency signs...
May 2007: La Tunisie Médicale