Case 26-2009: A 34-year-old man with cystic fibrosis with abdominal pain and distention

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 361, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 807-

  Freedman, Steven D ^a,c   Uppot, Raul N ^b,c   Mino Kenudson, Mari ^b,c  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; INFUSION FLUID; INSULIN LISPRO; ISOPHANE INSULIN; MACROGOL; METRONIDAZOLE; PANCRELIPASE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SALBUTAMOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TOBRAMYCIN; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; VANCOMYCIN; VITAMIN; CREATININE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADULT; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRONCHIECTASIS; CASE REPORT; CHEST WALL OSCILLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLITIS; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; CROHN DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR GENE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FATTY LIVER; FEVER; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER; LIVER FIBROSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEBULIZER; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; SPUTUM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOSIS; TOXIC MEGACOLON; WHEEZING; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; BLOOD; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLON; DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; HEMATOCRIT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG; PANCREAS; PATHOLOGY; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; BRONCHIECTASIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLON; CREATININE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG; MALE; PANCREAS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69049093890     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc0902225     Document Type: Article

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