Aseptic abscess syndrome associated with traveler’s diarrhea after a trip to Malaysia

The first, to our knowledge, case of the aseptic abscesses syndrome as a complication of traveler’s diarrhea after a trip to Malaysia is presented. The patient failed to respond to several antimicrobials. The diagnosis was histologically confirmed and the patient only responded to immunomodulatory t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Panos, Zois, Giannopoulos, George, Papangeli, Eymorfia, Antalis, Emmanouil, Pavli, Androula, Spathis, Aris, Poulakou, Garyfalia, Dimitriadis, George, Panayiotides, Ioannis, Boumpas, Dimitrios, Tsiodras, Sotirios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5035335/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27672562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2016.09.001
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Sumario:The first, to our knowledge, case of the aseptic abscesses syndrome as a complication of traveler’s diarrhea after a trip to Malaysia is presented. The patient failed to respond to several antimicrobials. The diagnosis was histologically confirmed and the patient only responded to immunomodulatory therapy with corticosteroids and methotrexate. Travel physicians should be aware of this entity reviewed herein in the context of traveler’s diarrhea.

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