Acute Severe Calculous Cholecystitis with Multiorgan Failure Complicated by Scrub Typhus

Scrub typhus is a febrile illness and can present with manifestations ranging from subclinical symptoms to multiorgan failure and death. Scrub typhus is a rare etiology of acute cholecystitis. A patient presenting with the features of acute cholecystitis who does not respond to standard treatment sh...

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Autores principales: Acharya, Suman, Yadav, Jayant Kumar, Khanal, Nischal, Bhandari, Raju, Ghimire, Bikal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6612987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31341695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7505108
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author Acharya, Suman
Yadav, Jayant Kumar
Khanal, Nischal
Bhandari, Raju
Ghimire, Bikal
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description Scrub typhus is a febrile illness and can present with manifestations ranging from subclinical symptoms to multiorgan failure and death. Scrub typhus is a rare etiology of acute cholecystitis. A patient presenting with the features of acute cholecystitis who does not respond to standard treatment should be screened for scrub typhus in a typhus endemic region. We report a case of a 70-year-old female with acute severe calculous cholecystitis with multiorgan failure complicated by scrub typhus. She improved remarkably after starting doxycycline for scrub typhus. Scrub typhus should be considered as a trigger in a patient presenting with cholecystitis in a typhus endemic region.
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spelling pubmed-66129872019-07-24 Acute Severe Calculous Cholecystitis with Multiorgan Failure Complicated by Scrub Typhus Acharya, Suman Yadav, Jayant Kumar Khanal, Nischal Bhandari, Raju Ghimire, Bikal Case Rep Surg Case Report Scrub typhus is a febrile illness and can present with manifestations ranging from subclinical symptoms to multiorgan failure and death. Scrub typhus is a rare etiology of acute cholecystitis. A patient presenting with the features of acute cholecystitis who does not respond to standard treatment should be screened for scrub typhus in a typhus endemic region. We report a case of a 70-year-old female with acute severe calculous cholecystitis with multiorgan failure complicated by scrub typhus. She improved remarkably after starting doxycycline for scrub typhus. Scrub typhus should be considered as a trigger in a patient presenting with cholecystitis in a typhus endemic region. Hindawi 2019-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6612987/ /pubmed/31341695 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7505108 Text en Copyright © 2019 Suman Acharya et al. 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.
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title_full Acute Severe Calculous Cholecystitis with Multiorgan Failure Complicated by Scrub Typhus
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title_short Acute Severe Calculous Cholecystitis with Multiorgan Failure Complicated by Scrub Typhus
title_sort acute severe calculous cholecystitis with multiorgan failure complicated by scrub typhus
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6612987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31341695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7505108
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