Case 20-2006: An 84-year-old man with staphylococcal bacteremia and renal failure

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 26, 2006, Pages

  Denton, Mark D ^a,b   Digumarthy, Subba R ^c,d   Chua, Sarah ^c,d   Colvin, Robert B ^c,d  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATENOLOL; AZTREONAM; CEFALEXIN; CEFOTAXIME; CRYOGLOBULIN; DAPTOMYCIN; FUROSEMIDE; GLIPIZIDE; HYDRALAZINE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; LISINOPRIL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METRONIDAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN; RIFAMPICIN; SUPERANTIGEN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AGED; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULITIS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TUBULAR NECROSIS, ACUTE; MALE; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 33745598295     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc069012     Document Type: Article

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