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Pericardial effusion – an unusual manifestation of salmonellosis: a case report

BACKGROUND: Nontyphoidal salmonellae are important food-borne pathogens that are usually associated with self-limiting gastroenteritis. Occurrence of extra-intestinal non-typhoidal salmonellosis in humans is increasing in many developing countries. The risk of extra-intestinal nontyphoidal salmonell...

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Autores principales: Sahu, Manisa, Sujatha, Sistla, DR, Chaya, Parija, Subhash Chandra
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19061513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-375
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author Sahu, Manisa
Sujatha, Sistla
DR, Chaya
Parija, Subhash Chandra
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description BACKGROUND: Nontyphoidal salmonellae are important food-borne pathogens that are usually associated with self-limiting gastroenteritis. Occurrence of extra-intestinal non-typhoidal salmonellosis in humans is increasing in many developing countries. The risk of extra-intestinal nontyphoidal salmonellosis is higher in patients with impaired cell mediated immunity, lympho-proliferative disorders and IL-12 deficiencies. Pericardial involvement is one of the rare manifestations accounting for <2% cases but the mortality is very high. CASE PRESENTATION: A 23 year old male was admitted in the medicine ward with complaints of fever, chest pain with non-productive cough, not associated with hemoptysis for past 3 weeks. He was a known case of Hodgkin's lymphoma and was treated with complete course of chemotherapy. Cardiovascular examination, chest X-ray and ECG findings suggested this to be a case of pericardial effusion. The causative agent of this purulent pericardial effusion was identified as Group B Salmonella following isolation from the pericardial fluid.
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spelling pubmed-26149462009-01-08 Pericardial effusion – an unusual manifestation of salmonellosis: a case report Sahu, Manisa Sujatha, Sistla DR, Chaya Parija, Subhash Chandra Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: Nontyphoidal salmonellae are important food-borne pathogens that are usually associated with self-limiting gastroenteritis. Occurrence of extra-intestinal non-typhoidal salmonellosis in humans is increasing in many developing countries. The risk of extra-intestinal nontyphoidal salmonellosis is higher in patients with impaired cell mediated immunity, lympho-proliferative disorders and IL-12 deficiencies. Pericardial involvement is one of the rare manifestations accounting for <2% cases but the mortality is very high. CASE PRESENTATION: A 23 year old male was admitted in the medicine ward with complaints of fever, chest pain with non-productive cough, not associated with hemoptysis for past 3 weeks. He was a known case of Hodgkin's lymphoma and was treated with complete course of chemotherapy. Cardiovascular examination, chest X-ray and ECG findings suggested this to be a case of pericardial effusion. The causative agent of this purulent pericardial effusion was identified as Group B Salmonella following isolation from the pericardial fluid. BioMed Central 2008-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2614946/ /pubmed/19061513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-375 Text en Copyright © 2008 Sahu et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Parija, Subhash Chandra
Pericardial effusion – an unusual manifestation of salmonellosis: a case report
title Pericardial effusion – an unusual manifestation of salmonellosis: a case report
title_full Pericardial effusion – an unusual manifestation of salmonellosis: a case report
title_fullStr Pericardial effusion – an unusual manifestation of salmonellosis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Pericardial effusion – an unusual manifestation of salmonellosis: a case report
title_short Pericardial effusion – an unusual manifestation of salmonellosis: a case report
title_sort pericardial effusion – an unusual manifestation of salmonellosis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19061513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-375
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