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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-7-21
pubmed:abstractText
A 54-years-old patient coming from Guinea, who presented fever, diarrhoea, consciousness disorders and severe haemolytic anaemia, was admitted to resuscitation unit in France. Despite many explorations carried out (evaluation of traumatic causes, infection, neoplasia, vascular, toxic causes, vitamin deficiency), it was not possible to explain neurological symptomatology. Besides, haemolytic anaemia was due to the ingestion of metamizole in a context of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficit. This drug's marketing has been suspended in France since 2006. Despite appropriate treatment, after seven days of hospitalization, the patient died of multi-organ failure and hemophagocytic syndrome. This clinical case illustrates the difficulties encountered to set a diagnosis and manage patients coming from overseas. Uncommon aetiologies for French healthcare professionals should be evoked in the absence of comprehensive clinical information.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0369-8114
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
56
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
314-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Anemia, Hemolytic, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Antithyroid Agents, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Diagnosis, Differential, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Diarrhea, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Fatal Outcome, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Guinea, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Headache, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Lymphohistiocytosis, Hemophagocytic, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Malaria, Falciparum, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Male, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Methemoglobinemia, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Methimazole, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Multiple Organ Failure, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Paris, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Psychomotor Agitation, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Seizures, pubmed-meshheading:18343605-Vomiting
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
[Consciousness disorders and severe haemolytic anaemia in a patient coming from overseas].
pubmed:affiliation
Ecole du Val de Grâce, 1, place Alphonse-Laveran, 75230 Paris cedex 05, France. carinegarcia92@wanadoo.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports