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
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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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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author Aloizos, Stavros
Gourgiotis, Stavros
Oikonomou, Konstantinos
Stakia, Paraskevi
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description 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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spelling pubmed-25706792008-10-22 Acute renal failure and rhabdomyolysis in a patient with infectious mononucleosis: a case report Aloizos, Stavros Gourgiotis, Stavros Oikonomou, Konstantinos Stakia, Paraskevi Cases J 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 complication of the underlying infection, although renal biopsy was not performed in our patient. BioMed Central 2008-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2570679/ /pubmed/18840267 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-222 Text en Copyright © 2008 Aloizos et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Acute renal failure and rhabdomyolysis in a patient with infectious mononucleosis: a case report
title Acute renal failure and rhabdomyolysis in a patient with infectious mononucleosis: a case report
title_full Acute renal failure and rhabdomyolysis in a patient with infectious mononucleosis: a case report
title_fullStr Acute renal failure and rhabdomyolysis in a patient with infectious mononucleosis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Acute renal failure and rhabdomyolysis in a patient with infectious mononucleosis: a case report
title_short Acute renal failure and rhabdomyolysis in a patient with infectious mononucleosis: a case report
title_sort acute renal failure and rhabdomyolysis in a patient with infectious mononucleosis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2570679/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-222
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