Hypoglycaemia with Septicaemia: 2 case reports and a review of the literature

Scottish Medical Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-3

  McGeough, Elizabeth C ^a   Walker, James D ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DECUBITUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOXIA; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEPTICEMIA; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 33644974609     PISSN: 00369330     EISSN: 00369330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/RSMSMJ.51.1.57E     Document Type: Article

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