Gastrointestinal symptoms as the first sign of chronic granulomatous disease in a neonate: A case report

BACKGROUND: Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) characterized by recurrent and severe bacterial and fungal infections is most common in childhood. CASE SUMMARY: We reported a 24-d-old male infant who developed gastrointestinal symptoms as the first sign of CGD. CONCLUSION: Gastrointestinal symptoms...

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Autores principales: Meng, Er-Yan, Wang, Zi-Ming, Lei, Bing, Shang, Li-Hong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8610891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34877342
http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v9.i32.9997
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author Meng, Er-Yan
Wang, Zi-Ming
Lei, Bing
Shang, Li-Hong
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Wang, Zi-Ming
Lei, Bing
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description BACKGROUND: Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) characterized by recurrent and severe bacterial and fungal infections is most common in childhood. CASE SUMMARY: We reported a 24-d-old male infant who developed gastrointestinal symptoms as the first sign of CGD. CONCLUSION: Gastrointestinal symptoms representing the first sign of CGD are very rare, and prompt diagnosis and treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics were of crucial importance.
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spelling pubmed-86108912021-12-06 Gastrointestinal symptoms as the first sign of chronic granulomatous disease in a neonate: A case report Meng, Er-Yan Wang, Zi-Ming Lei, Bing Shang, Li-Hong World J Clin Cases Case Report BACKGROUND: Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) characterized by recurrent and severe bacterial and fungal infections is most common in childhood. CASE SUMMARY: We reported a 24-d-old male infant who developed gastrointestinal symptoms as the first sign of CGD. CONCLUSION: Gastrointestinal symptoms representing the first sign of CGD are very rare, and prompt diagnosis and treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics were of crucial importance. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2021-11-16 2021-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8610891/ /pubmed/34877342 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v9.i32.9997 Text en ©The Author(s) 2021. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Meng, Er-Yan
Wang, Zi-Ming
Lei, Bing
Shang, Li-Hong
Gastrointestinal symptoms as the first sign of chronic granulomatous disease in a neonate: A case report
title Gastrointestinal symptoms as the first sign of chronic granulomatous disease in a neonate: A case report
title_full Gastrointestinal symptoms as the first sign of chronic granulomatous disease in a neonate: A case report
title_fullStr Gastrointestinal symptoms as the first sign of chronic granulomatous disease in a neonate: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Gastrointestinal symptoms as the first sign of chronic granulomatous disease in a neonate: A case report
title_short Gastrointestinal symptoms as the first sign of chronic granulomatous disease in a neonate: A case report
title_sort gastrointestinal symptoms as the first sign of chronic granulomatous disease in a neonate: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8610891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34877342
http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v9.i32.9997
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