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Sudden Deaths of Neonates Receiving Intravenous Infusion of Lipid Emulsion Contaminated with Citrobacter freundii.


ABSTRACT: At an intensive care unit, four neonates died consecutively within 80 minutes. Citrobacter freundii was isolated from blood samples of the 4 patients. It was also cultured from the leftover SMOFlipid that had been infused intravenously into the patients. In this in vitro study, we evaluated the bacterial growth kinetics and change in size of fat globules in SMOFlipid contaminated with C. freundii. Following the growth of bacteria, pH of SMOFlipid decreased to < 6, and the number of fat globules larger than 5 μm increased. Pulmonary fat embolism is proposed as a possible cause of the sudden deaths as well as fulminant sepsis.

SUBMITTER: Bae JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5832946 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Sudden Deaths of Neonates Receiving Intravenous Infusion of Lipid Emulsion Contaminated with Citrobacter freundii.

Bae Ji Yun JY   Kang Chang Kyung CK   Choi Su Jin SJ   Lee Eunyoung E   Choe Pyoeng Gyun PG   Park Wan Beom WB   Kim Nam Joong NJ   Kim Eui Chong EC   Oh Myoung Don MD  

Journal of Korean medical science 20180305 10


At an intensive care unit, four neonates died consecutively within 80 minutes. Citrobacter freundii was isolated from blood samples of the 4 patients. It was also cultured from the leftover SMOFlipid that had been infused intravenously into the patients. In this in vitro study, we evaluated the bacterial growth kinetics and change in size of fat globules in SMOFlipid contaminated with C. freundii. Following the growth of bacteria, pH of SMOFlipid decreased to < 6, and the number of fat globules  ...[more]

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