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Postgrad Med J 2002;78:100 doi:10.1136/pmj.78.916.100
  • SELF ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS

Complications associated with influenza infection

  1. S D West,
  2. N J Brunskill
  1. Department of Nephrology, Leicester General Hospital, Gwendolen Road, Leicester LE5 4PW, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr Brunskill
  • Received 16 March 2001
  • Accepted 14 June 2001

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An otherwise healthy non-smoking 59 year old welder gave a two week history of flu-like symptoms and a one week history of progressive shortness of breath, pleuritic chest pain, and cough productive of purulent sputum.

On examination he was unwell with a pyrexia and an oxygen saturation of 87% on air. He had atrial fibrillation with a pulse of 150 beats/min and blood pressure of 109/69 mm Hg. …

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