Two Recent Cases of Babesiosis in the United States With a Difference in Severity and Response to Therapy

Being one of the widespread parasitic infections in particular parts of the United States, babesiosis may present with varying severity of clinical manifestations. Depending on the severity and degree of hemolysis, some patients may need a more aggressive approach, such as repeated red blood cell (R...

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Autores principales: Gasimova, Ulviyya, Arivudainambi, Ganapathiram, Joseph, Sam, Elhamamsy, Salaheldin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7053684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32181088
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6853
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author Gasimova, Ulviyya
Arivudainambi, Ganapathiram
Joseph, Sam
Elhamamsy, Salaheldin
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Arivudainambi, Ganapathiram
Joseph, Sam
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description Being one of the widespread parasitic infections in particular parts of the United States, babesiosis may present with varying severity of clinical manifestations. Depending on the severity and degree of hemolysis, some patients may need a more aggressive approach, such as repeated red blood cell (RBC) transfusions, while in others, symptoms may be well-controlled with conservative therapy only using a disease-specific approach. We are presenting two cases with a significant difference in severity and medical therapy.
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spelling pubmed-70536842020-03-16 Two Recent Cases of Babesiosis in the United States With a Difference in Severity and Response to Therapy Gasimova, Ulviyya Arivudainambi, Ganapathiram Joseph, Sam Elhamamsy, Salaheldin Cureus Internal Medicine Being one of the widespread parasitic infections in particular parts of the United States, babesiosis may present with varying severity of clinical manifestations. Depending on the severity and degree of hemolysis, some patients may need a more aggressive approach, such as repeated red blood cell (RBC) transfusions, while in others, symptoms may be well-controlled with conservative therapy only using a disease-specific approach. We are presenting two cases with a significant difference in severity and medical therapy. Cureus 2020-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7053684/ /pubmed/32181088 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6853 Text en Copyright © 2020, Gasimova et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Gasimova, Ulviyya
Arivudainambi, Ganapathiram
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Two Recent Cases of Babesiosis in the United States With a Difference in Severity and Response to Therapy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7053684/
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