A 39 year old man presented with complaints of abdominal distension, bilateral pedal edema, and decreased urine output since 20 days. Patient works in vegetable market and has 2 children(1 son and daughter) .History of fever since 20 days on and off for 3 days. Patient earliest recall of events dated 20days back, where he attended a marriage, his symptoms started after intake of alcohol. He developed low grade fever for which he used medication for 2-3 days and noticed abdominal distention on not subsiding.They visited gastroenterologist and was advised admission.The patient denied any admission as he would continue medication on opd basis. 2 days later on further worsening he was admitted in another hospital and was told he had kidney infection (in his words ) and was admitted on not improving and with increasing trend of creatinine levels,the patient was advised dialysis and was reffered to kamineni. History of alcohol intake present since 15 years which is around 3-4 times a week a
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