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Serous labyrinthitis as a manifestation of cat scratch disease: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Cat scratch disease is an infectious disease transmitted by young cats, in which the principal causative factor is Bartonella henselae. The typical course of cat scratch disease is usually benign and self-limited and requires only supportive therapy. However, cases lasting up to 2 year...

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Autores principales: Kantas, Ilias, Katotomichelakis, Michael, Vafiadis, Marinos, Kaloutsa, Zografia V, Papadakis, Chariton E
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20519021
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-7405
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author Kantas, Ilias
Katotomichelakis, Michael
Vafiadis, Marinos
Kaloutsa, Zografia V
Papadakis, Chariton E
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description INTRODUCTION: Cat scratch disease is an infectious disease transmitted by young cats, in which the principal causative factor is Bartonella henselae. The typical course of cat scratch disease is usually benign and self-limited and requires only supportive therapy. However, cases lasting up to 2 years have been reported, and more serious complications may occur. Many manifestations of the disease have been reported by different medical disciplines. CASE PRESENTATION: A case of cat scratch disease in a 71-year-old Greek woman with an unusual clinical course is presented here. Serous otitis media was combined with rotational vertigo due to labyrinthitis. The invaded ear was ipsilateral to the inoculation site. CONCLUSION: Cervicofacial lymphadenopathy has been demonstrated as the most common otolaryngologic manifestation of cat scratch disease. Manifestation in the middle and inner ear has, to the best of our knowledge, not been reported before. Our report presents a patient with cat scratch disease with clinical signs and symptoms in the middle and inner ear.
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spelling pubmed-28271602010-02-24 Serous labyrinthitis as a manifestation of cat scratch disease: a case report Kantas, Ilias Katotomichelakis, Michael Vafiadis, Marinos Kaloutsa, Zografia V Papadakis, Chariton E J Med Case Reports Case report INTRODUCTION: Cat scratch disease is an infectious disease transmitted by young cats, in which the principal causative factor is Bartonella henselae. The typical course of cat scratch disease is usually benign and self-limited and requires only supportive therapy. However, cases lasting up to 2 years have been reported, and more serious complications may occur. Many manifestations of the disease have been reported by different medical disciplines. CASE PRESENTATION: A case of cat scratch disease in a 71-year-old Greek woman with an unusual clinical course is presented here. Serous otitis media was combined with rotational vertigo due to labyrinthitis. The invaded ear was ipsilateral to the inoculation site. CONCLUSION: Cervicofacial lymphadenopathy has been demonstrated as the most common otolaryngologic manifestation of cat scratch disease. Manifestation in the middle and inner ear has, to the best of our knowledge, not been reported before. Our report presents a patient with cat scratch disease with clinical signs and symptoms in the middle and inner ear. BioMed Central 2009-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2827160/ /pubmed/20519021 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-7405 Text en Copyright ©2009 Kantas et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Papadakis, Chariton E
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20519021
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-7405
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