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Lesson of the month 2: An easily missed cause of confusion

We describe the case of an 85-year-old woman who developed acute confusion, acute kidney injury and temperature spikes while on extended courses of beta-lactams for osteomyelitis. The cause of her deterioration was felt to be due to sepsis when in fact it was as a result of toxicity from antibiotics...

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Published in:Clin Med (Lond)
Main Authors: Oliveira, Ben, Chaterjee, Sangita, Burns, Aine
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Royal College of Physicians 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6297304/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27697818
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.16-5-491
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