Case 2-2015: A 25-year-old man with abdominal pain, syncope, and hypotension

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 372, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 265-273

  Murali, Mandakolathur R ^a,b   Uyeda, Jennifer W ^a,b   Tingpej, Bhatraphol ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; NALOXONE; ONDANSETRON; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYANOSIS; CYST ASPIRATION; DIAPHORESIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FAINTNESS; FLUSHING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTENSION; LIMB SWELLING; LIVER HYDATID CYST; MALE; NASOPHARYNX AIRWAY; NAUSEA; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN THERAPY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE LOAD; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMIC ANAPHYLAXIS; TRISMUS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; URINE INCONTINENCE; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SYNCOPE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; LIVER; MALE; SYNCOPE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84920943036     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1410939     Document Type: Article

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