A 36-year-old Haitian man with coma, acute kidney injury, lactic acidosis, and respiratory failure

Chest. 2012 Sep;142(3):798-801. doi: 10.1378/chest.11-3209.

Authors

Oluwaseun O Falade-Nwulia¹, Gurpreet Dhaliwal², Matthew P Schreiber³, Sanjay Saint⁴, Andrew F Shorr³

Affiliations

¹ Critical Care Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health and the Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Electronic address: ofalade1@jhmi.edu.
² Department of Medicine, San Francisco VA Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA.
³ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Washington Hospital Center and Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
⁴ Ann Arbor VA Medical Center and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Acidosis, Lactic / diagnosis*
Acidosis, Lactic / etiology
Acidosis, Lactic / therapy
Acute Kidney Injury / diagnosis*
Acute Kidney Injury / etiology
Acute Kidney Injury / therapy
Adult
Antimalarials / therapeutic use
Blood Transfusion
Coma / diagnosis*
Coma / etiology
Coma / therapy
Doxycycline / therapeutic use
Haiti
Humans
Malaria, Falciparum / complications*
Malaria, Falciparum / diagnosis*
Malaria, Falciparum / therapy
Male
Quinidine / therapeutic use
Renal Dialysis
Respiratory Insufficiency / diagnosis*
Respiratory Insufficiency / etiology
Respiratory Insufficiency / therapy
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Antimalarials
Quinidine
Doxycycline