Use of Methylene Blue for Treatment of Severe Sepsis in an Immunosuppressed Patient after Liver Transplantation

Sepsis in the immunosuppressed patient is associated with very high mortality and morbidity. Treatment of sepsis in immunocompromised patients is especially challenging due to an unbalanced systemic inflammatory reaction with subsequent development of profound vasoplegia. Methylene blue (MB) has bee...

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Main Authors: Saravanan Ramamoorthy, Shachi Patel, Eric Bradburn, Zakiyah Kadry, Tadahiro Uemura, Piotr K. Janicki, Riaz Ali Shah, Dmitri Bezinover
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Transplantation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/203791