A 10-month-old with rotavirus gastroenteritis, seizures, anasarca and systemic inflammatory response syndrome and complete recovery

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bharwani, Sulaiman S ^a   Shaukat, Qudsia ^b   Basak, Ratna ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; VANCOMYCIN; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANASARCA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; DEHYDRATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DUODENUM BIOPSY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; INFANT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTAVIRUS; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOSIS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VOMITING;

EID: 79959682755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.04.2011.4126     Document Type: Article

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