NDT Plus Advance Access originally published online on June 25, 2008
NDT Plus 2008 1(5):371-372; doi:10.1093/ndtplus/sfn093
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A mysterious homesickness
1 Division of General Internal Medicine
2 Division of Nuclear Medicine
3 Division of Nephrology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
Correspondence: Correspondence and offprint requests to: Michel Lambert, Division of General Internal Medicine, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Service de Médecine Interne Générale, Avenue Hippocrate, B-1200 Bruxelles, Belgique, Belgium. Tel: +32-27641051; Fax: +32-27641046; E-mail: michel.lambert@uclouvain.be
Key Words: acute interstitial nephritis PET-CT proton-pump inhibitors
Received for publication May 16, 2008. Accepted for publication June 4, 2008.
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An 82-year-old female patient presented with fever and chills of two weeks' duration. Because of pyuria on dip- stick, sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim had been empirically initiated. On admission, temperature was 38.5°C. Blood tests showed increased C-reactive protein