Severe levofloxacin-induced hypoglycaemia: A case report and literature review

Nefrologia

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 546-547

  Peña Ortega, María ^a   Mañero Rodríguez, Carlos ^a   Borrego García, Elena ^a   Casado, Antonio Navas Parejo ^a   Cerezo Morales, Sebastián ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN CECILIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; OFLOXACIN;

AGED; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DRUG COMBINATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LETTER; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SEPSIS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; OFLOXACIN; RENAL DIALYSIS; SEPSIS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 84867684416     PISSN: 02116995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3265/Nefrologia.pre2012.Feb.11248     Document Type: Letter

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