cefepime and Respiratory-Insufficiency

A 36-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and alcoholism reported 2 days of left upper quadrant pain and jaundice. Within hours of admission, she became somnolent and hypoxic. The patient was then intubated. She had no history of drug abuse, cigarette smoking, liver disease, autoimmune disease, or pancreatitis. She had no home medications.

Topics: Abdominal Pain; Adult; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antibodies, Anticardiolipin; Anticoagulants; Antiphospholipid Syndrome; Brain Diseases; Cefepime; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Heparin; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Multiple Organ Failure; Respiratory Insufficiency; Thrombosis; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Treatment Outcome; Vancomycin

Topics: Adult; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Cefepime; Confusion; Female; Humans; Internal Capsule; Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Respiration, Artificial; Respiratory Insufficiency; Tomography, X-Ray Computed