Leptospirosis as an unusual culprit of acute pancreatitis and portal vein thrombosis in a New Yorker

Leptospirosis often takes clinicians by surprise when presenting in urban locations with unusual manifestations. This delays diagnosis and treatment which increases mortality rate. Our case illustrates the importance of taking into account the socioeconomic backgrounds, environmental exposures, and...

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Autores principales: Afzal, Iman, Thaker, Rishi, Weissman, Simcha, Kothari, Megha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7141725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32274037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2736
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spelling pubmed-71417252020-04-09 Leptospirosis as an unusual culprit of acute pancreatitis and portal vein thrombosis in a New Yorker Afzal, Iman Thaker, Rishi Weissman, Simcha Kothari, Megha Clin Case Rep Case Reports Leptospirosis often takes clinicians by surprise when presenting in urban locations with unusual manifestations. This delays diagnosis and treatment which increases mortality rate. Our case illustrates the importance of taking into account the socioeconomic backgrounds, environmental exposures, and clinical presentations of patients to create a good differential diagnosis. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7141725/ /pubmed/32274037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2736 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Leptospirosis as an unusual culprit of acute pancreatitis and portal vein thrombosis in a New Yorker
title Leptospirosis as an unusual culprit of acute pancreatitis and portal vein thrombosis in a New Yorker
title_full Leptospirosis as an unusual culprit of acute pancreatitis and portal vein thrombosis in a New Yorker
title_fullStr Leptospirosis as an unusual culprit of acute pancreatitis and portal vein thrombosis in a New Yorker
title_full_unstemmed Leptospirosis as an unusual culprit of acute pancreatitis and portal vein thrombosis in a New Yorker
title_short Leptospirosis as an unusual culprit of acute pancreatitis and portal vein thrombosis in a New Yorker
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topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7141725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32274037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2736
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