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A Rare Complication of Leptospirosis: Weil's Disease Diagnosed in the United States

Leptospirosis is mostly found in tropical regions such as Latin America and Southeast Asia. Here we present a case of leptospirosis in the United States in a 43-year-old African American male who had complications such as sepsis, acute renal failure, hyperbilirubinemia, and transaminitis. Through th...

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Autores principales: Rathi, Hinal, Patel, Aesha, Beblawy, Rafik, Hassoun, Ali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10504683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37719584
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43620
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description Leptospirosis is mostly found in tropical regions such as Latin America and Southeast Asia. Here we present a case of leptospirosis in the United States in a 43-year-old African American male who had complications such as sepsis, acute renal failure, hyperbilirubinemia, and transaminitis. Through this case report, we want to highlight the rare occurrence of this infection in the United States. It should be considered high in the list of differential diagnoses for patients traveling to underdeveloped countries and participating in adventure sports. Early recognition and treatment of leptospirosis are essential in decreasing life-threatening complications.
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spelling pubmed-105046832023-09-17 A Rare Complication of Leptospirosis: Weil's Disease Diagnosed in the United States Rathi, Hinal Patel, Aesha Beblawy, Rafik Hassoun, Ali Cureus Internal Medicine Leptospirosis is mostly found in tropical regions such as Latin America and Southeast Asia. Here we present a case of leptospirosis in the United States in a 43-year-old African American male who had complications such as sepsis, acute renal failure, hyperbilirubinemia, and transaminitis. Through this case report, we want to highlight the rare occurrence of this infection in the United States. It should be considered high in the list of differential diagnoses for patients traveling to underdeveloped countries and participating in adventure sports. Early recognition and treatment of leptospirosis are essential in decreasing life-threatening complications. Cureus 2023-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10504683/ /pubmed/37719584 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43620 Text en Copyright © 2023, Rathi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Rathi, Hinal
Patel, Aesha
Beblawy, Rafik
Hassoun, Ali
A Rare Complication of Leptospirosis: Weil's Disease Diagnosed in the United States
title A Rare Complication of Leptospirosis: Weil's Disease Diagnosed in the United States
title_full A Rare Complication of Leptospirosis: Weil's Disease Diagnosed in the United States
title_fullStr A Rare Complication of Leptospirosis: Weil's Disease Diagnosed in the United States
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title_short A Rare Complication of Leptospirosis: Weil's Disease Diagnosed in the United States
title_sort rare complication of leptospirosis: weil's disease diagnosed in the united states
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10504683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37719584
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43620
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