A patient with acute renal failure and gram-negative septicemia developed hypoprothrombinemia during treatment with cefoperazone. The coagulation defect was corrected by vitamin K administration. A multifactorial pathogenetic mechanism of vitamin K deficiency that developed during treatment with parenteral antibiotics is presented.
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