The McKittrick-Wheelock syndrome: A case of acute renal failure due to neoplastic cholera

Renal Failure

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 469-473

  Winstanley, Virginia ^a   Little, Mark A ^b   Wadsworth, Christopher ^a   Cohen, Patrizia ^a   Martin, Niamh M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cholera; Delta anion gap; McKittrick Wheelock syndrome; Metabolic alkalosis; Villous adenoma

Indexed keywords

ANION; BICARBONATE; CHLORIDE; CREATININE; ELECTROLYTE; LACTIC ACID; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; UREA;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANION GAP; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CASE REPORT; CHLORIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLERA; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; HYPOCHLOREMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MCKITTRICK WHEELOCK SYNDROME; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; METABOLIC ALKALOSIS; METABOLIC DISORDER; OXYGEN TENSION; PH; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS; URINE VOLUME; VILLOUS ADENOMA;

ADENOMA, VILLOUS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHOLERA; COLECTOMY; COLONOSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RARE DISEASES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE;

EID: 45749109501     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: 15256049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08860220801964277     Document Type: Article

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