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Febrile coma and disseminated intravascular coagulation following heat stroke.
Lélis, M; do Carmo, G; Caldeira, L; Abreu, J; Freitas, L; Doroana, MA clinical case that occurred in a 42 years old female and which fulfils the diagnostic criteria for the entity described as Heat Stroke is presented. In this case, besides the usual manifestations of hyperpyrexia without sweating along with consciousness disorders, features of consumptive coagulopathy, rhabdomyolysis and well marked laboratory liver dysfunction have also been found. The severity of this situat...
Emphysematous cholecystitis.
Freitas, L; Do Carmo, G; Caldeira, L; Farto e Abreu, J; Lélis, M; Doroana, MEmphysematous cholecystitis (EC) is a rare and dramatic disease that requires prompt therapeutic procedures. The authors report a case of a 70-year-old-woman, admitted to the Intensive Care Unit for Infectious Diseases of the Santa Maria Hospital, with the diagnosis of EC. The literature on EC is also reviewed.; Emphysematous cholecystitis (EC) is a rare and dramatic disease that requires prompt therapeutic pro...