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Case Reports

. 2012 Sep;142(3):798-801.

doi: 10.1378/chest.11-3209.

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

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

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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.

PMID: 22948586
PMCID: PMC3610619
DOI: 10.1378/chest.11-3209

Case Reports

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

Oluwaseun O Falade-Nwulia et al. Chest. 2012 Sep.

. 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.

PMID: 22948586
PMCID: PMC3610619
DOI: 10.1378/chest.11-3209

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Figure 1. — Figure 1.
Admission chest radiograph with prominent interstitial markings.

Figure 2. — Figure 2.
Thin blood film showing numerous burr cells, several schistocytes, and intraerythrocytic parasites (arrow).

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