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DR. CORNEL:
The next day the diarrhea got
somewhat less but she complained of a lot more
abdominal pain. Worryingly, she had episodes of
disorientation. She was talking to the clock on
the wall and thought the nurse was her brother.
Her creatinine was rising
rapidly, so was the blood nitrogen. Her
hemoglobin fell, not profoundly at this stage,
down to 82 grams, platelets down to 30.
Chest x-ray, (and I will show
you what this looked like in a moment or two),
showed pulmonary edema. So the lungs were
getting full of water.
She was really sick and was
transferred to the pediatric intensive care unit
and hemodialysis was started.
