Scrub Typhus and COVID-19 Coinfection Unmasking Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome

Scrub typhus is an acute febrile disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi with a clinical course varying from mild to fatal. Vascular thrombosis is rare in scrub typhus. There is an increased risk of thrombotic events in Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19). We report a young diabetic female who presen...

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Autores principales: Saibaba, Jayaram, Selvaraj, Jayachandran, Viswanathan, Stalin, Pillai, Vivekanandan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9195129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35712339
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25008
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author Saibaba, Jayaram
Selvaraj, Jayachandran
Viswanathan, Stalin
Pillai, Vivekanandan
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description Scrub typhus is an acute febrile disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi with a clinical course varying from mild to fatal. Vascular thrombosis is rare in scrub typhus. There is an increased risk of thrombotic events in Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19). We report a young diabetic female who presented with pulmonary embolism, followed by deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and was found to have coinfection with scrub typhus and COVID-19 with underlying antiphospholipid antibody syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-91951292022-06-15 Scrub Typhus and COVID-19 Coinfection Unmasking Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Saibaba, Jayaram Selvaraj, Jayachandran Viswanathan, Stalin Pillai, Vivekanandan Cureus Emergency Medicine Scrub typhus is an acute febrile disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi with a clinical course varying from mild to fatal. Vascular thrombosis is rare in scrub typhus. There is an increased risk of thrombotic events in Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19). We report a young diabetic female who presented with pulmonary embolism, followed by deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and was found to have coinfection with scrub typhus and COVID-19 with underlying antiphospholipid antibody syndrome. Cureus 2022-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9195129/ /pubmed/35712339 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25008 Text en Copyright © 2022, Saibaba 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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Saibaba, Jayaram
Selvaraj, Jayachandran
Viswanathan, Stalin
Pillai, Vivekanandan
Scrub Typhus and COVID-19 Coinfection Unmasking Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
title Scrub Typhus and COVID-19 Coinfection Unmasking Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
title_full Scrub Typhus and COVID-19 Coinfection Unmasking Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
title_fullStr Scrub Typhus and COVID-19 Coinfection Unmasking Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Scrub Typhus and COVID-19 Coinfection Unmasking Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
title_short Scrub Typhus and COVID-19 Coinfection Unmasking Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
title_sort scrub typhus and covid-19 coinfection unmasking antiphospholipid antibody syndrome
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9195129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35712339
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25008
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