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Anaesthesia. 2011 May 3. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06752.x. [Epub ahead of print]
Influenza A-induced rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney injury complicated by posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.
Fearnley RA, Lines SW, Lewington AJ, Bodenham AR.
Source
Specialty Registrar, Department of Anaesthesia, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, South London Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK Specialist Registrar Consultant, Department of Renal Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, St James University Hospital, Leeds, UK Consultant, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, The General Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Abstract
We report a case of Influenza A-induced rhabdomyolysis causing acute kidney injury in a young adult female who required invasive ventilation and renal replacement therapy. This case was further complicated by posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome. Although this represents an extremely rare neurological complication of Influenza A infection, an appreciation of the condition and its management is important, given the high numbers of critically ill patients recently affected by H1N1 Influenza A in intensive care units in the UK.
? 2011 The Authors. Anaesthesia ? 2011 The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.
PMID:
21539531
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21539531
Influenza A-induced rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney injury complicated by posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.
Fearnley RA, Lines SW, Lewington AJ, Bodenham AR.
Source
Specialty Registrar, Department of Anaesthesia, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, South London Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK Specialist Registrar Consultant, Department of Renal Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, St James University Hospital, Leeds, UK Consultant, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, The General Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Abstract
We report a case of Influenza A-induced rhabdomyolysis causing acute kidney injury in a young adult female who required invasive ventilation and renal replacement therapy. This case was further complicated by posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome. Although this represents an extremely rare neurological complication of Influenza A infection, an appreciation of the condition and its management is important, given the high numbers of critically ill patients recently affected by H1N1 Influenza A in intensive care units in the UK.
? 2011 The Authors. Anaesthesia ? 2011 The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.
PMID:
21539531
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21539531