Large vessel vasculitis in a patient with acute Q-fever: A case report

Q fever is a zoonosis caused by the rickettsial organism Coxiella burnetii. Infection has an acute course, usually with a self-limited febrile illness and the possibility of the evaluation to a chronic course with endocardial involvement. The presence of autoantibodies and various autoimmune disorde...

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Autores principales: Baziaka, Fotini, Karaiskos, Ilias, Galani, Lamprini, Barmpouti, Eleftheria, Konstantinidis, Stilianos, Kitas, George, Giamarellou, Helen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4762790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26952153
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2014.07.004
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author Baziaka, Fotini
Karaiskos, Ilias
Galani, Lamprini
Barmpouti, Eleftheria
Konstantinidis, Stilianos
Kitas, George
Giamarellou, Helen
author_facet Baziaka, Fotini
Karaiskos, Ilias
Galani, Lamprini
Barmpouti, Eleftheria
Konstantinidis, Stilianos
Kitas, George
Giamarellou, Helen
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description Q fever is a zoonosis caused by the rickettsial organism Coxiella burnetii. Infection has an acute course, usually with a self-limited febrile illness and the possibility of the evaluation to a chronic course with endocardial involvement. The presence of autoantibodies and various autoimmune disorders have also been associated with C. burnetii infection. We report a case of acute Q fever in which the patient developed large vessel vasculitis. The FDG-PET/CT scan detected inflammation of the thoracic aortic wall, suggesting an unusual immunologic host response to acute Q fever infection.
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spelling pubmed-47627902016-03-07 Large vessel vasculitis in a patient with acute Q-fever: A case report Baziaka, Fotini Karaiskos, Ilias Galani, Lamprini Barmpouti, Eleftheria Konstantinidis, Stilianos Kitas, George Giamarellou, Helen IDCases Case Report Q fever is a zoonosis caused by the rickettsial organism Coxiella burnetii. Infection has an acute course, usually with a self-limited febrile illness and the possibility of the evaluation to a chronic course with endocardial involvement. The presence of autoantibodies and various autoimmune disorders have also been associated with C. burnetii infection. We report a case of acute Q fever in which the patient developed large vessel vasculitis. The FDG-PET/CT scan detected inflammation of the thoracic aortic wall, suggesting an unusual immunologic host response to acute Q fever infection. Elsevier 2014-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4762790/ /pubmed/26952153 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2014.07.004 Text en © 2014 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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Baziaka, Fotini
Karaiskos, Ilias
Galani, Lamprini
Barmpouti, Eleftheria
Konstantinidis, Stilianos
Kitas, George
Giamarellou, Helen
Large vessel vasculitis in a patient with acute Q-fever: A case report
title Large vessel vasculitis in a patient with acute Q-fever: A case report
title_full Large vessel vasculitis in a patient with acute Q-fever: A case report
title_fullStr Large vessel vasculitis in a patient with acute Q-fever: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Large vessel vasculitis in a patient with acute Q-fever: A case report
title_short Large vessel vasculitis in a patient with acute Q-fever: A case report
title_sort large vessel vasculitis in a patient with acute q-fever: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4762790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26952153
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2014.07.004
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