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Rare Cause of Seizures, Renal Failure, and Gangrene in an 83-Year-Old Diabetic Male

We report an 83-year-old diabetic male who presented with acute-onset renal failure, seizures, psychosis, pneumonia, and right foot gangrene. Investigations revealed thrombocytopenia, CSF lymphocytosis, ANA and dsDNA positivity, hypocomplementemia, and pneumonitis following which he was treated with...

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Autores principales: Viswanathan, Stalin, Balamurugesan, Kandan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4207470/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25374741
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/523865
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description We report an 83-year-old diabetic male who presented with acute-onset renal failure, seizures, psychosis, pneumonia, and right foot gangrene. Investigations revealed thrombocytopenia, CSF lymphocytosis, ANA and dsDNA positivity, hypocomplementemia, and pneumonitis following which he was treated with pulse methylprednisolone. He was treated for Pseudomonas-related ventilator-associated pneumonia, candiduria, and E. coli-related bedsore infection prior to discharge. He was discharged at request and died 17 days later due to a respiratory infection.
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spelling pubmed-42074702014-11-05 Rare Cause of Seizures, Renal Failure, and Gangrene in an 83-Year-Old Diabetic Male Viswanathan, Stalin Balamurugesan, Kandan Case Reports Immunol Case Report We report an 83-year-old diabetic male who presented with acute-onset renal failure, seizures, psychosis, pneumonia, and right foot gangrene. Investigations revealed thrombocytopenia, CSF lymphocytosis, ANA and dsDNA positivity, hypocomplementemia, and pneumonitis following which he was treated with pulse methylprednisolone. He was treated for Pseudomonas-related ventilator-associated pneumonia, candiduria, and E. coli-related bedsore infection prior to discharge. He was discharged at request and died 17 days later due to a respiratory infection. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4207470/ /pubmed/25374741 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/523865 Text en Copyright © 2013 S. Viswanathan and K. Balamurugesan. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Rare Cause of Seizures, Renal Failure, and Gangrene in an 83-Year-Old Diabetic Male
title_sort rare cause of seizures, renal failure, and gangrene in an 83-year-old diabetic male
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