Chronic Q Fever with No Elevation of Inflammatory Markers: A Case Report

We describe the case of a 55-year-old man with a biological prosthetic aortic valve who suffered from epigastrium and right hypochondrium pain associated with intermittent night sweats. Liver biopsy showed infectious hepatitis pattern without pathognomonic features. Coxiella burnetii serology was su...

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Autores principales: Boattini, Matteo, Almeida, André, Moura, Rita Barata, Abreu, João, Santos, Ana Sofia, Toscano Rico, Miguel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3389709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22792113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/249705
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author Boattini, Matteo
Almeida, André
Moura, Rita Barata
Abreu, João
Santos, Ana Sofia
Toscano Rico, Miguel
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description We describe the case of a 55-year-old man with a biological prosthetic aortic valve who suffered from epigastrium and right hypochondrium pain associated with intermittent night sweats. Liver biopsy showed infectious hepatitis pattern without pathognomonic features. Coxiella burnetii serology was suggestive of chronic Q fever, and modified Duke's criteria for endocarditis were also fulfilled. The authors present a brief literature review concerning chronic Q fever, emphasizing absent previous reports of chronic Q fever with hepatitis and endocarditis and no increase in inflammatory markers.
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spelling pubmed-33897092012-07-12 Chronic Q Fever with No Elevation of Inflammatory Markers: A Case Report Boattini, Matteo Almeida, André Moura, Rita Barata Abreu, João Santos, Ana Sofia Toscano Rico, Miguel Case Rep Med Case Report We describe the case of a 55-year-old man with a biological prosthetic aortic valve who suffered from epigastrium and right hypochondrium pain associated with intermittent night sweats. Liver biopsy showed infectious hepatitis pattern without pathognomonic features. Coxiella burnetii serology was suggestive of chronic Q fever, and modified Duke's criteria for endocarditis were also fulfilled. The authors present a brief literature review concerning chronic Q fever, emphasizing absent previous reports of chronic Q fever with hepatitis and endocarditis and no increase in inflammatory markers. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3389709/ /pubmed/22792113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/249705 Text en Copyright © 2012 Matteo Boattini et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chronic Q Fever with No Elevation of Inflammatory Markers: A Case Report
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