Fulminant pneumatosis intestinalis in a patient with diabetes mellitus and minimal change nephrotic syndrome

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-44

  Maeda, Yoshitaka ^a   Inaba, Naoto ^a   Aoyagi, Makoto ^a   Kanda, Eiichiro ^a   Shiigai, Tatsuo ^a  

^a Toride Kyodo General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

galactosidase inhibitor; Immunosuppressants; Steroid

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE INHIBITOR; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; HUMACART N; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INSULIN; MIZORIBINE; PREDNISOLONE; SIVELESTAT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOGLIBOSE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS HEMOFILTRATION; CONVALESCENCE; DETERIORATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

AGED; ALPHA-GLUCOSIDASES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; NEPHROSIS, LIPOID; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33846072984     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.6076     Document Type: Article

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