Overweight elderly patient suffering from multiple comorbidities
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Complex care: treating an older patient with multiple comorbidities.
A 74-year-old Latino patient with a history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, multivessel coronary and peripheral arterial diseases, and chronic osteomyelitis was recently discharged from our hospital after undergoing several toe amputations. His hospital course was complicated by contrast-induced nephropathy that required hemodialysis; heparin-induced thrombocytopenia; lower ex...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: AboutOpen
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2465-2628
DOI: 10.19156/abtpn.2018.0047