Splenectomy for Visceral Leishmaniasis Out of an Endemic Region: A Case Report and Literature Review

Visceral leishmaniasis (also known as kala-azar) is characterized by fever, weight loss, swelling of the spleen and liver, and pancytopenia. If it is not treated, the fatality rate in developing countries can be as high as 100% within 2 years. In a high risk situation for perioperative bleeding due...

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Autores principales: Lekic, Nebojsa, Tadic, Boris, Djordjevic, Vladimir, Basaric, Dragan, Micev, Marjan, Vucelic, Dragica, Mitrovic, Milica, Grubor, Nikola
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8875283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35208507
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina58020184
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author Lekic, Nebojsa
Tadic, Boris
Djordjevic, Vladimir
Basaric, Dragan
Micev, Marjan
Vucelic, Dragica
Mitrovic, Milica
Grubor, Nikola
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Tadic, Boris
Djordjevic, Vladimir
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description Visceral leishmaniasis (also known as kala-azar) is characterized by fever, weight loss, swelling of the spleen and liver, and pancytopenia. If it is not treated, the fatality rate in developing countries can be as high as 100% within 2 years. In a high risk situation for perioperative bleeding due to severe thrombocytopenia/coagulopathy, we present a rare challenge for urgent splenectomy in a patient with previously undiagnosed visceral leishmaniasis. A histologic examination of the spleen revealed a visceral leishmaniasis, and the patient was successfully treated with amphotericin B.
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spelling pubmed-88752832022-02-26 Splenectomy for Visceral Leishmaniasis Out of an Endemic Region: A Case Report and Literature Review Lekic, Nebojsa Tadic, Boris Djordjevic, Vladimir Basaric, Dragan Micev, Marjan Vucelic, Dragica Mitrovic, Milica Grubor, Nikola Medicina (Kaunas) Case Report Visceral leishmaniasis (also known as kala-azar) is characterized by fever, weight loss, swelling of the spleen and liver, and pancytopenia. If it is not treated, the fatality rate in developing countries can be as high as 100% within 2 years. In a high risk situation for perioperative bleeding due to severe thrombocytopenia/coagulopathy, we present a rare challenge for urgent splenectomy in a patient with previously undiagnosed visceral leishmaniasis. A histologic examination of the spleen revealed a visceral leishmaniasis, and the patient was successfully treated with amphotericin B. MDPI 2022-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8875283/ /pubmed/35208507 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina58020184 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Mitrovic, Milica
Grubor, Nikola
Splenectomy for Visceral Leishmaniasis Out of an Endemic Region: A Case Report and Literature Review
title Splenectomy for Visceral Leishmaniasis Out of an Endemic Region: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full Splenectomy for Visceral Leishmaniasis Out of an Endemic Region: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_fullStr Splenectomy for Visceral Leishmaniasis Out of an Endemic Region: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Splenectomy for Visceral Leishmaniasis Out of an Endemic Region: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_short Splenectomy for Visceral Leishmaniasis Out of an Endemic Region: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort splenectomy for visceral leishmaniasis out of an endemic region: a case report and literature review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8875283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35208507
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina58020184
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