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Quiz Page October 2009: Neurologic Symptoms in a Dialysis Patient After Ingesting Seafood

Neptunea arthritica. The gastropod in this photograph was purchased at the same time as the gastropods that the patient ingested.

Neptunea arthritica. The gastropod in this photograph was purchased at the same time as the gastropods that the patient ingested.
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Plasma tetramine concentration and clinical course of the patient.

Plasma tetramine concentration and clinical course of the patient.
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Case provided and authored by Satoshi Takasaki, MD,¹ Tsuneo Konta, MD,¹ Kazuo Shiomi, PhD,² and Isao Kubota, MD,¹ ¹Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Nephrology, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Yamagata; and ²Department of Food Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.Address correspondence to Satoshi Takasaki, MD, Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Nephrology, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Yamagata, 2-2-2 Iida-Nishi, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan. stakasak@med.id.yamagata-u.ac.jp

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doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2009.05.021

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