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Nephrol Dial Transplant (2003) 18: 1223-1225
© 2003 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

Nephroquiz

Painful haematuria following central venous catheter infection

Cheng-Hung Huang, Szu-Chun Hung and Sze-Hung Hung

Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, and National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taiwan. Email: schung@vghtpe.gov.tw

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A 55-year-old female presented with gross haematuria and low back pain. Her previous medical history included type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension for more than 10 years. Two months earlier, she had undergone left lobectomy of the liver for intrahepatic duct stones. The post-operative course was complicated by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia associated with central venous catheter infection. The catheter was removed, and treatment with intravenous vancomycin was begun. Her fever gradually subsided after a 2-week course of antibiotic therapy. Cardiac auscultation . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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