Authors
Nicholas J White
Publication date
2024/6/15
Journal
The Lancet
Volume
403
Issue
10444
Pages
2590-2591
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
The cruelty of lethal diphtheria is difficult to exaggerate. A child who is slowly strangled by an unstable expanding coagulum of necrotic tissue in the upper airway, a toxic and untreatable rapidly progressive cardiomyopathy or, after surviving these, death from neuropathic acute respiratory failure.
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