Splenic infarct in a patient with Infectious Mononucleosis: a rare presentation

We report a case of a 25-year-old obese, currently smoking, female diagnosed with EBV infectious mononucleosis. The patient complained of sudden onset abdominal pain with progressively increasing intensity in the left upper quadrant. Abdominal CT scan showed a wedge infarct of the spleen. We present...

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Autores principales: Noor, Mustafa, Sadough, Maryam, Chan, Stephanie, Singh, Gurkeerat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5637648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29046754
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2017.1361291
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description We report a case of a 25-year-old obese, currently smoking, female diagnosed with EBV infectious mononucleosis. The patient complained of sudden onset abdominal pain with progressively increasing intensity in the left upper quadrant. Abdominal CT scan showed a wedge infarct of the spleen. We present this rare case that EBV may cause splenic infarct in young adults.
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spelling pubmed-56376482017-10-18 Splenic infarct in a patient with Infectious Mononucleosis: a rare presentation Noor, Mustafa Sadough, Maryam Chan, Stephanie Singh, Gurkeerat J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Case Report We report a case of a 25-year-old obese, currently smoking, female diagnosed with EBV infectious mononucleosis. The patient complained of sudden onset abdominal pain with progressively increasing intensity in the left upper quadrant. Abdominal CT scan showed a wedge infarct of the spleen. We present this rare case that EBV may cause splenic infarct in young adults. Taylor & Francis 2017-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5637648/ /pubmed/29046754 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2017.1361291 Text en © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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