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A Case of Scrub Typhus Complicated by Acute Calculous Cholecystitis

We report a case of acute calculous cholecystitis through scrub typhus. A 69-year-old woman presented with a history of general myalgia, fever, and right abdominal pain. She referred to our hospital for surgical treatment of clinically suspected acute cholecystitis. Physicians concluded the cause of...

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Autores principales: Lee, Su Jin, Cho, Young Hye, Lee, Sang Yeoup, Jeong, Dong Wook, Choi, Eun Jung, Kim, Yun Jin, Lee, Jeong Gyu, Lee, Yu Hyun
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Publicado: The Korean Academy of Family Medicine 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3418344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22916327
http://dx.doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.2012.33.4.243
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author Lee, Su Jin
Cho, Young Hye
Lee, Sang Yeoup
Jeong, Dong Wook
Choi, Eun Jung
Kim, Yun Jin
Lee, Jeong Gyu
Lee, Yu Hyun
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description We report a case of acute calculous cholecystitis through scrub typhus. A 69-year-old woman presented with a history of general myalgia, fever, and right abdominal pain. She referred to our hospital for surgical treatment of clinically suspected acute cholecystitis. Physicians concluded the cause of cholecystitis as gall bladder (GB) stone and proper antibiotics treatment of scrub typhus was started later. The patient developed acute respiratory distress syndrome and multi organ failure through scrub typhus. Five days after admission, the patient was treated with proper antibiotics and discharged on the 13th day after starting doxycycline treatment without any sequelae. In areas endemic for tsutsugamushi disease, even though a patient with GB stone presents with symptoms of acute cholecystitis, careful history and physical examination are required to reveal the existence of eschars or skin eruptions.
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spelling pubmed-34183442012-08-22 A Case of Scrub Typhus Complicated by Acute Calculous Cholecystitis Lee, Su Jin Cho, Young Hye Lee, Sang Yeoup Jeong, Dong Wook Choi, Eun Jung Kim, Yun Jin Lee, Jeong Gyu Lee, Yu Hyun Korean J Fam Med Case Report We report a case of acute calculous cholecystitis through scrub typhus. A 69-year-old woman presented with a history of general myalgia, fever, and right abdominal pain. She referred to our hospital for surgical treatment of clinically suspected acute cholecystitis. Physicians concluded the cause of cholecystitis as gall bladder (GB) stone and proper antibiotics treatment of scrub typhus was started later. The patient developed acute respiratory distress syndrome and multi organ failure through scrub typhus. Five days after admission, the patient was treated with proper antibiotics and discharged on the 13th day after starting doxycycline treatment without any sequelae. In areas endemic for tsutsugamushi disease, even though a patient with GB stone presents with symptoms of acute cholecystitis, careful history and physical examination are required to reveal the existence of eschars or skin eruptions. The Korean Academy of Family Medicine 2012-07 2012-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3418344/ /pubmed/22916327 http://dx.doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.2012.33.4.243 Text en Copyright © 2012 The Korean Academy of Family Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lee, Su Jin
Cho, Young Hye
Lee, Sang Yeoup
Jeong, Dong Wook
Choi, Eun Jung
Kim, Yun Jin
Lee, Jeong Gyu
Lee, Yu Hyun
A Case of Scrub Typhus Complicated by Acute Calculous Cholecystitis
title A Case of Scrub Typhus Complicated by Acute Calculous Cholecystitis
title_full A Case of Scrub Typhus Complicated by Acute Calculous Cholecystitis
title_fullStr A Case of Scrub Typhus Complicated by Acute Calculous Cholecystitis
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Scrub Typhus Complicated by Acute Calculous Cholecystitis
title_short A Case of Scrub Typhus Complicated by Acute Calculous Cholecystitis
title_sort case of scrub typhus complicated by acute calculous cholecystitis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3418344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22916327
http://dx.doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.2012.33.4.243
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