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Acute Brucellosis Presenting with Bleeding Tendency due to Isolated Severe Thrombocytopenia
Mild anemia and leukopenia are the most common hematologic findings in the course of acute brucellosis. Severe form of thrombocytopenia is less frequently reported. We describe a case of acute brucellosis in a 20-year-old man, who presented with fever, purpuric skin lesions, epistaxis, and hematuria...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6174732/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30345128 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7867435 |
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author | Aon, M. Al-Enezi, T. |
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description | Mild anemia and leukopenia are the most common hematologic findings in the course of acute brucellosis. Severe form of thrombocytopenia is less frequently reported. We describe a case of acute brucellosis in a 20-year-old man, who presented with fever, purpuric skin lesions, epistaxis, and hematuria. The absolute platelet count was 2 × 10(9)/L. The patient was diagnosed as suffering from brucellosis on the basis of a strongly positive serologic reaction and was treated with antibiotics and a short course of corticosteroids, with a rapid rise in platelet count. Brucella infection can cause immune-mediated thrombocytopenia that is reversible after appropriate antimicrobial therapy and steroid treatment. |
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spelling | pubmed-61747322018-10-21 Acute Brucellosis Presenting with Bleeding Tendency due to Isolated Severe Thrombocytopenia Aon, M. Al-Enezi, T. Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Mild anemia and leukopenia are the most common hematologic findings in the course of acute brucellosis. Severe form of thrombocytopenia is less frequently reported. We describe a case of acute brucellosis in a 20-year-old man, who presented with fever, purpuric skin lesions, epistaxis, and hematuria. The absolute platelet count was 2 × 10(9)/L. The patient was diagnosed as suffering from brucellosis on the basis of a strongly positive serologic reaction and was treated with antibiotics and a short course of corticosteroids, with a rapid rise in platelet count. Brucella infection can cause immune-mediated thrombocytopenia that is reversible after appropriate antimicrobial therapy and steroid treatment. Hindawi 2018-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6174732/ /pubmed/30345128 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7867435 Text en Copyright © 2018 M. Aon and T. Al-Enezi. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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 Aon, M. Al-Enezi, T. Acute Brucellosis Presenting with Bleeding Tendency due to Isolated Severe Thrombocytopenia |
title | Acute Brucellosis Presenting with Bleeding Tendency due to Isolated Severe Thrombocytopenia |
title_full | Acute Brucellosis Presenting with Bleeding Tendency due to Isolated Severe Thrombocytopenia |
title_fullStr | Acute Brucellosis Presenting with Bleeding Tendency due to Isolated Severe Thrombocytopenia |
title_full_unstemmed | Acute Brucellosis Presenting with Bleeding Tendency due to Isolated Severe Thrombocytopenia |
title_short | Acute Brucellosis Presenting with Bleeding Tendency due to Isolated Severe Thrombocytopenia |
title_sort | acute brucellosis presenting with bleeding tendency due to isolated severe thrombocytopenia |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6174732/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30345128 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7867435 |
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