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A Unique Patient Presentation of Disseminated Strongyloidiasis: Unraveling the Clinical Complexity of an Immunocompromised Patient
Strongyloidiasis is a rare parasitic disease that can remain dormant and asymptomatic in many individuals. However, in cases of immunosuppression, the motility rate of the Strongyloides parasite increases significantly. This case study presents a unique clinical scenario involving an 88-year-old His...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10620618/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37927761 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46408 |
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author | Shtanko, Yulia Perez, Sophia Del Pilar Bonilla, Lorena |
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description | Strongyloidiasis is a rare parasitic disease that can remain dormant and asymptomatic in many individuals. However, in cases of immunosuppression, the motility rate of the Strongyloides parasite increases significantly. This case study presents a unique clinical scenario involving an 88-year-old Hispanic male with a disseminated Strongyloidesinfection. The patient's medical history includes coronary artery disease, a history of percutaneous coronary intervention, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and subsequent recovery of left ventricular function, hypertension, dyslipidemia, mantle cell lymphoma being treated with rituximab every two months since 2019, and chronic anemia. This case emphasizes the importance for physicians to consider strongyloidiasis when faced with a diverse range of symptoms, including syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH), rash, gastrointestinal upset, urinary retention, chronic anemia, and chronic eosinophilia, as these manifestations may share a common origin. |
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spelling | pubmed-106206182023-11-03 A Unique Patient Presentation of Disseminated Strongyloidiasis: Unraveling the Clinical Complexity of an Immunocompromised Patient Shtanko, Yulia Perez, Sophia Del Pilar Bonilla, Lorena Cureus Internal Medicine Strongyloidiasis is a rare parasitic disease that can remain dormant and asymptomatic in many individuals. However, in cases of immunosuppression, the motility rate of the Strongyloides parasite increases significantly. This case study presents a unique clinical scenario involving an 88-year-old Hispanic male with a disseminated Strongyloidesinfection. The patient's medical history includes coronary artery disease, a history of percutaneous coronary intervention, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and subsequent recovery of left ventricular function, hypertension, dyslipidemia, mantle cell lymphoma being treated with rituximab every two months since 2019, and chronic anemia. This case emphasizes the importance for physicians to consider strongyloidiasis when faced with a diverse range of symptoms, including syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH), rash, gastrointestinal upset, urinary retention, chronic anemia, and chronic eosinophilia, as these manifestations may share a common origin. Cureus 2023-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10620618/ /pubmed/37927761 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46408 Text en Copyright © 2023, Shtanko 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. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Shtanko, Yulia Perez, Sophia Del Pilar Bonilla, Lorena A Unique Patient Presentation of Disseminated Strongyloidiasis: Unraveling the Clinical Complexity of an Immunocompromised Patient |
title | A Unique Patient Presentation of Disseminated Strongyloidiasis: Unraveling the Clinical Complexity of an Immunocompromised Patient |
title_full | A Unique Patient Presentation of Disseminated Strongyloidiasis: Unraveling the Clinical Complexity of an Immunocompromised Patient |
title_fullStr | A Unique Patient Presentation of Disseminated Strongyloidiasis: Unraveling the Clinical Complexity of an Immunocompromised Patient |
title_full_unstemmed | A Unique Patient Presentation of Disseminated Strongyloidiasis: Unraveling the Clinical Complexity of an Immunocompromised Patient |
title_short | A Unique Patient Presentation of Disseminated Strongyloidiasis: Unraveling the Clinical Complexity of an Immunocompromised Patient |
title_sort | unique patient presentation of disseminated strongyloidiasis: unraveling the clinical complexity of an immunocompromised patient |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10620618/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37927761 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46408 |
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