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Nephrol Dial Transplant (2004) 19: 1921-1922
Nephrol Dial Transplant Vol. 19 No. 7 © ERA-EDTA 2004; all rights reserved

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Biopsy-proven anuric acute tubular necrosis associated with vancomycin and one dose of aminoside

Harry Sokol, Cécile Vigneau, Eric Maury, Bertrand Guidet and Georges Offenstadt

Service de réanimation médicale, Hôpital St Antoine, Paris

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Cécile Vigneau, Service de réanimation médicale, Hôpital St Antoine, Paris. Email: cvignettea@hotmail.com

Keywords: acute tubular necrosis; biopsy; drug-related toxicity

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   Introduction
 
We present the first report of a biopsy-proven acute tubular necrosis (ATN) secondary to vancomycin and a single dose of aminoside.



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A 71-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and restrictive chronic respiratory failure was admitted to our intensive care unit (ICU) for dyspnoea. She had been on levofloxacin for 3 weeks for pneumonia, and had purulent expectoration, fever (38.5°C) and pulmonary . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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