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An Atypical Presentation of Brucellosis in a Patient with Isolated Thrombocytopenia Complicated with Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding

A 59-year-old female patient was admitted to the emergency service with complaints of hematemesis and melena for the last few days. In laboratory tests, the platelet count was found to be 6 × 10(9)/L. Intravenous or oral corticosteroid treatment was thought to be given for ITP but disclaimed due to...

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Autores principales: Baldane, Suleyman, Sivgin, Serdar, Alkan, Tahsin Sezgin, Kurnaz, Fatih, Pala, Cigdem, Keklik, Muzaffer, Karaman, Ahmet, Kaynar, Leylagul
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Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3483866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23118764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/473784
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author Baldane, Suleyman
Sivgin, Serdar
Alkan, Tahsin Sezgin
Kurnaz, Fatih
Pala, Cigdem
Keklik, Muzaffer
Karaman, Ahmet
Kaynar, Leylagul
author_facet Baldane, Suleyman
Sivgin, Serdar
Alkan, Tahsin Sezgin
Kurnaz, Fatih
Pala, Cigdem
Keklik, Muzaffer
Karaman, Ahmet
Kaynar, Leylagul
author_sort Baldane, Suleyman
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description A 59-year-old female patient was admitted to the emergency service with complaints of hematemesis and melena for the last few days. In laboratory tests, the platelet count was found to be 6 × 10(9)/L. Intravenous or oral corticosteroid treatment was thought to be given for ITP but disclaimed due to upper GIS bleeding. On the 5th day of treatment, Brucella melitensis was isolated from blood culture before the results of Wright tube agglutination tests were reported positive as 1 : 80. On the second day of the anti-brucellosis treatment, the thrombocyte count was raised from 6000/mm(3) to 110000/mm(3), and on the 3rd day to 225000/mm(3).
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spelling pubmed-34838662012-11-01 An Atypical Presentation of Brucellosis in a Patient with Isolated Thrombocytopenia Complicated with Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding Baldane, Suleyman Sivgin, Serdar Alkan, Tahsin Sezgin Kurnaz, Fatih Pala, Cigdem Keklik, Muzaffer Karaman, Ahmet Kaynar, Leylagul Case Rep Med Case Report A 59-year-old female patient was admitted to the emergency service with complaints of hematemesis and melena for the last few days. In laboratory tests, the platelet count was found to be 6 × 10(9)/L. Intravenous or oral corticosteroid treatment was thought to be given for ITP but disclaimed due to upper GIS bleeding. On the 5th day of treatment, Brucella melitensis was isolated from blood culture before the results of Wright tube agglutination tests were reported positive as 1 : 80. On the second day of the anti-brucellosis treatment, the thrombocyte count was raised from 6000/mm(3) to 110000/mm(3), and on the 3rd day to 225000/mm(3). Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3483866/ /pubmed/23118764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/473784 Text en Copyright © 2012 Suleyman Baldane 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Baldane, Suleyman
Sivgin, Serdar
Alkan, Tahsin Sezgin
Kurnaz, Fatih
Pala, Cigdem
Keklik, Muzaffer
Karaman, Ahmet
Kaynar, Leylagul
An Atypical Presentation of Brucellosis in a Patient with Isolated Thrombocytopenia Complicated with Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding
title An Atypical Presentation of Brucellosis in a Patient with Isolated Thrombocytopenia Complicated with Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding
title_full An Atypical Presentation of Brucellosis in a Patient with Isolated Thrombocytopenia Complicated with Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding
title_fullStr An Atypical Presentation of Brucellosis in a Patient with Isolated Thrombocytopenia Complicated with Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding
title_full_unstemmed An Atypical Presentation of Brucellosis in a Patient with Isolated Thrombocytopenia Complicated with Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding
title_short An Atypical Presentation of Brucellosis in a Patient with Isolated Thrombocytopenia Complicated with Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding
title_sort atypical presentation of brucellosis in a patient with isolated thrombocytopenia complicated with upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3483866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23118764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/473784
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