Acute renal failure and rhabdomyolysis in a patient with infectious mononucleosis: a case report

We report a very rare case of acute renal failure and rhabdomyolysis in an Intensive Care treated 20-years-old male with upper airway obstruction due to Epstein-Barr infection. In our opinion this was a manifestation of the very rare and potentially lethal propofol infusion syndrome and not a direct...

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Autores principales: Aloizos, Stavros, Gourgiotis, Stavros, Oikonomou, Konstantinos, Stakia, Paraskevi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2570679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18840267
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-222
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Sumario:We report a very rare case of acute renal failure and rhabdomyolysis in an Intensive Care treated 20-years-old male with upper airway obstruction due to Epstein-Barr infection. In our opinion this was a manifestation of the very rare and potentially lethal propofol infusion syndrome and not a direct complication of the underlying infection, although renal biopsy was not performed in our patient.

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