Successful Treatment with Polymyxin B Immobilized Fiber of Septic Shock Complicated by Renal Stone |
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| Authors: | Takeshi Soda Keiji Ogura Morihiro Kondo Mareki Yagisawa |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Urology, Rakuwa-kai Otowa Hospital, Kyoto, Japan;Departments of Nephrology, Rakuwa-kai Otowa Hospital, Kyoto, Japan |
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| Abstract: | We describe a patient with septic shock that was spontaneously complicated by calyceal diverticular calculus. The patient recovered from shock with in a few days with treatment by extracorporeal elimination of endotoxin using a blood purification cartridge consisting of polymyxin B immobilized fiber. Standard open nephrolithotomy was performed, and the patient was discharged from the hospital 2 months after admission. |
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| Keywords: | septicemia endotoxins renal calculi polymyxin B |
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