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- Title
Hemoperitoneum in a woman with acute paraplegia.
- Authors
M-Y Lai; W-C Yang; J-Y Chen; C-C Lin; Ng, Y-Y
- Abstract
The article presents the clinical case of a 62-year-old woman who had a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diffuse atherosclerosis, and renal failure from nephrosclerosis and had been on peritoneal dialysis. She presented upon hospital admission with onset of lower abdominal pain and lower limb weakness. The clinical diagnosis is spinal cord infarction with paraplegia. The patient died of pulseless electric activity associated with neurogenic shock and severe metabolic acidosis.
- Subjects
KIDNEY diseases; PATIENTS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; INFARCTION; PARAPLEGIA
- Publication
Kidney International, 2006, Vol 69, Issue 4, p639
- ISSN
0085-2538
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/sj.ki.5000242