An Unusual Case of Subacute Appendicitis and Intestinal Spirochetosis

Intestinal spirochetosis is a gastrointestinal infection with vague and inconsistent symptoms. It similarly presents multiple gastrointestinal diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and appendicitis. We present a case of a 27-year-old female with intestinal spirochetosis who was later found to...

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Autores principales: Chaudhri, Eman, Almakadma, Abdul Hakim, Almustanyir, Sami, Taleb, Abdulaziz, Alotaibi, Nawaf
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8448259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34540517
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18050
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author Chaudhri, Eman
Almakadma, Abdul Hakim
Almustanyir, Sami
Taleb, Abdulaziz
Alotaibi, Nawaf
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description Intestinal spirochetosis is a gastrointestinal infection with vague and inconsistent symptoms. It similarly presents multiple gastrointestinal diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and appendicitis. We present a case of a 27-year-old female with intestinal spirochetosis who was later found to have subacute appendicitis. Further understanding of the disease and a set of criteria may have to be created for its management.
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spelling pubmed-84482592021-09-17 An Unusual Case of Subacute Appendicitis and Intestinal Spirochetosis Chaudhri, Eman Almakadma, Abdul Hakim Almustanyir, Sami Taleb, Abdulaziz Alotaibi, Nawaf Cureus Internal Medicine Intestinal spirochetosis is a gastrointestinal infection with vague and inconsistent symptoms. It similarly presents multiple gastrointestinal diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and appendicitis. We present a case of a 27-year-old female with intestinal spirochetosis who was later found to have subacute appendicitis. Further understanding of the disease and a set of criteria may have to be created for its management. Cureus 2021-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8448259/ /pubmed/34540517 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18050 Text en Copyright © 2021, Chaudhri et al. https://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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Chaudhri, Eman
Almakadma, Abdul Hakim
Almustanyir, Sami
Taleb, Abdulaziz
Alotaibi, Nawaf
An Unusual Case of Subacute Appendicitis and Intestinal Spirochetosis
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title_full An Unusual Case of Subacute Appendicitis and Intestinal Spirochetosis
title_fullStr An Unusual Case of Subacute Appendicitis and Intestinal Spirochetosis
title_full_unstemmed An Unusual Case of Subacute Appendicitis and Intestinal Spirochetosis
title_short An Unusual Case of Subacute Appendicitis and Intestinal Spirochetosis
title_sort unusual case of subacute appendicitis and intestinal spirochetosis
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8448259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34540517
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18050
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