Pulmonary Artery Thrombosis Associated with Scrub Typhus

Scrub typhus is an acute febrile disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, and the clinical course varies from mild and self-limiting to fatal. We describe a rare case of a pulmonary artery thrombosis associated with scrub typhus. Vasculitis via endothelial dysfunction caused by scrub typhus could b...

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Autores principales: Cho, Jeong-Hwan, Lee, Chan-Hee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446015/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30941942
http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2019.51.1.73
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description Scrub typhus is an acute febrile disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, and the clinical course varies from mild and self-limiting to fatal. We describe a rare case of a pulmonary artery thrombosis associated with scrub typhus. Vasculitis via endothelial dysfunction caused by scrub typhus could be considered as the main mechanism.
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spelling pubmed-64460152019-04-03 Pulmonary Artery Thrombosis Associated with Scrub Typhus Cho, Jeong-Hwan Lee, Chan-Hee Infect Chemother Case Report Scrub typhus is an acute febrile disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, and the clinical course varies from mild and self-limiting to fatal. We describe a rare case of a pulmonary artery thrombosis associated with scrub typhus. Vasculitis via endothelial dysfunction caused by scrub typhus could be considered as the main mechanism. The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2019-03 2018-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6446015/ /pubmed/30941942 http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2019.51.1.73 Text en Copyright © 2019 by The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Antimicrobial Therapy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://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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Pulmonary Artery Thrombosis Associated with Scrub Typhus
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title_short Pulmonary Artery Thrombosis Associated with Scrub Typhus
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446015/
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