Urinary tract infection and coma

Lancet

Volumn 360, Issue 9338, 2002, Pages 996-

  De Jonghe, Bernard ^a   Janier, Virginie ^a   Abderrahim, Nassim ^a   Hillion, Daniel ^a   Lacherade, Jean Claude ^a   Outin, Hervé ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER INTERCOMMUNAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; OFLOXACIN; UREASE;

AGED; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLADDER DISTENSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORYNEBACTERIUM UREALYTICUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; URINE RETENTION; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 0037190582     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11084-1     Document Type: Article

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