Constipation, critical illness and mortality: Gut-derived toxidromes-real and now imagined

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2710-2711

  Garrett, Raymond E ^a   Bar Or, David ^b  

^a SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b St Anthony Central Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; INDICAN; LAXATIVE;

AUTO BREWERY SYNDROME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CONSTIPATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ENDOTOXEMIA; FERMENTATION; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LETTER; LIVER METABOLISM; METABOLIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURPLE URINARY BAG SYNDROM; SEPSIS; HUMAN; NOTE;

CONSTIPATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; LAXATIVES;

EID: 53049108395     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318184705b     Document Type: Letter

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