A message in a bottle: a case report
1 Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Department of Cardiology, Augustenburger Platz, 13353 Berlin, Germany
2 Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care Medicine, Augustenburger Platz, 13353 Berlin, Germany
Critical Care 2008, 12:411 doi:10.1186/cc6784
Published: 27 February 2008First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
In intensive care medicine, correctly identifying the underlying cause of illness in patients presenting to critical care units is often the key to applying a successful therapeutic regimen. We report on a patient in whom, despite anamnestic hints, the correct diagnosis was obscured by misleading laboratory results.
