Sudden decline in mobility as an indicator of infection and disclosure of subclinical sarcopenia: Four cases

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1395-1396

  Van Iersel, Marianne B ^a,b   Olde Rikkert, Marcel G M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN;

AGED; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LETTER; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; SEPTIC SHOCK; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; MALE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SARCOPENIA;

EID: 77954319058     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.02899.x     Document Type: Letter

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