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An Elderly Man Receiving Hemodialysis Who Had Diarrhea, Weight Loss, and Liver Mass

Author(s) -

Christopher M Cirino,

Edina Paál,

Cynthia L. Gibert

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/510425

Subject(s) - medicine , diarrhea , hemodialysis , weight loss , intensive care medicine , pediatrics , gastroenterology , obesity

A 78-year-old black man with end-stage renal disease who had a history of alcohol abuse and chronic pancreatitis presented with a 5-week history of diarrhea and mild right upper quadrant fullness. In 1998, he had undergone a lateral side-toside pancreaticojejunostomy (Puestow procedure) because of a pancreatic pseudocyst. Over the 6 months preceding the current admission to the hospital, the patient had experienced an unintentional weight loss of 15 kg. At the time of hospital ad-

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