A 67‐year‐old kidney transplant patient with headache of uncertain origin | Zendy

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A 67‐year‐old kidney transplant patient with headache of uncertain origin

Author(s) -

Marlies Ostermann,

Pranabh Gyawali,

Susan A. Snowden,

John B. Eastwood,

Christopher P. Streather

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

nephrology dialysis transplantation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.654

H-Index - 168

eISSN - 1460-2385

pISSN - 0931-0509

DOI - 10.1093/ndt/17.3.508

Subject(s) - medicine , kidney transplant , kidney transplantation , kidney , pediatrics , surgery

Most patients with acute headache have benign disorders, and only occasionally do they prove to have a life-threatening illness. However, in immunosuppressed patients the diagnosis may be difficult because occult infection is always possible: yet symptoms, signs and routine tests can be misleading. We present such a patient in whom several possibilities were entertained before the correct diagnosis was made.

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