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. 2008 Oct 7;1(1):222.
doi: 10.1186/1757-1626-1-222.

Acute renal failure and rhabdomyolysis in a patient with infectious mononucleosis: a case report

Stavros Aloizos  1 , Stavros Gourgiotis, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Paraskevi Stakia
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Acute renal failure and rhabdomyolysis in a patient with infectious mononucleosis: a case report

Stavros Aloizos et al. Cases J. .

Abstract

We report a very rare case of acute renal failure and rhabdomyolysis in an Intensive Care treated 20-years-old male with upper airway obstruction due to Epstein-Barr infection.In our opinion this was a manifestation of the very rare and potentially lethal propofol infusion syndrome and not a direct complication of the underlying infection, although renal biopsy was not performed in our patient.

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