Takotsubo cardiomyopathy thought to be induced by MRSA meningitis and cervical epidural abscess in a maintenance-hemodialysis patient: Case report

Japanese Journal of Nephrology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 371-376

  Kusaba, Tetsuro ^a   Sasaki, Hiroyo ^a   Sakurada, Tsutomu ^a   Kuboshima, Shingo ^a   Miura, Hiroshi ^a   Okabayashi, Jun ^a   Murao, Mei ^a   Imai, Goro ^a   Shirai, Sayuri ^a   Konno, Yusuke ^a   Shima, Yoshinori ^a   Ogimoto, Goichi ^a   Yasuda, Takashi ^a   Sato, Takeo ^a   Kimura, Kenjiro ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical epidural abscess; Maintenance hemodialysis patient; MRSA meningitis; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

15 (4 IODOPHENYL) 3 METHYLPENTADECANOIC ACID I 123; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; THALLIUM CHLORIDE TL 201; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEVER; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MENINGITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SHOULDER PAIN; T WAVE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; RENAL DIALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 3042791285     PISSN: 03852385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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