An infectious cause of acute kidney injury with low serum potassium.
- Cippà PE Division of Nephrology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
- Auinger K Medical Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
- Wüthrich RP Division of Nephrology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
- Segerer S Division of Nephrology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
- 2015-07-24
Published in:
- BMJ case reports. - 2015
Acute Kidney Injury
Aged
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Hyperbilirubinemia
Leptospirosis
Male
Potassium Deficiency
Thrombocytopenia
English
A 67-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of acute kidney injury, thrombocytopenia and hyperbilirubinemia. Despite severe kidney failure, hypokalemia was present. One infectious cause explained the whole clinical picture.
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- DOI 10.1136/bcr-2015-209910
- PMID 26202313
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