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Case Report: Intermittent Chest Pain With Cough, Fever, and Pericardial Effusion Over the Course of 1 Year in an 11-Year-Old Girl

An 11-year-old girl presented with frequent chest pain, fever, and a cough that she had had for more than 13 months, as well as pleural effusion and large pericardial effusion. She was misdiagnosed with tuberculosis and received anti-tuberculosis drugs for 6 months. Within the past year, she also un...

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Autores principales: Chen, Jing, Qin, Lu, Tang, Lan-Fang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9326351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35911838
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.896824
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description An 11-year-old girl presented with frequent chest pain, fever, and a cough that she had had for more than 13 months, as well as pleural effusion and large pericardial effusion. She was misdiagnosed with tuberculosis and received anti-tuberculosis drugs for 6 months. Within the past year, she also underwent two more thoracotomies and a thoracoscopic partial pericardiectomy. The final diagnosis of pulmonary paragonimiasis was established once it was known that she had eosinophilia, always drank stream water, and tested positive for antibodies against Paragonimus. Since antiparasitic praziquantel therapy was effective, paragonimiasis should be considered as a possibility in the differential diagnosis of tuberculosis in children.
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spelling pubmed-93263512022-07-28 Case Report: Intermittent Chest Pain With Cough, Fever, and Pericardial Effusion Over the Course of 1 Year in an 11-Year-Old Girl Chen, Jing Qin, Lu Tang, Lan-Fang Front Pediatr Pediatrics An 11-year-old girl presented with frequent chest pain, fever, and a cough that she had had for more than 13 months, as well as pleural effusion and large pericardial effusion. She was misdiagnosed with tuberculosis and received anti-tuberculosis drugs for 6 months. Within the past year, she also underwent two more thoracotomies and a thoracoscopic partial pericardiectomy. The final diagnosis of pulmonary paragonimiasis was established once it was known that she had eosinophilia, always drank stream water, and tested positive for antibodies against Paragonimus. Since antiparasitic praziquantel therapy was effective, paragonimiasis should be considered as a possibility in the differential diagnosis of tuberculosis in children. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9326351/ /pubmed/35911838 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.896824 Text en Copyright © 2022 Chen, Qin and Tang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Case Report: Intermittent Chest Pain With Cough, Fever, and Pericardial Effusion Over the Course of 1 Year in an 11-Year-Old Girl
title Case Report: Intermittent Chest Pain With Cough, Fever, and Pericardial Effusion Over the Course of 1 Year in an 11-Year-Old Girl
title_full Case Report: Intermittent Chest Pain With Cough, Fever, and Pericardial Effusion Over the Course of 1 Year in an 11-Year-Old Girl
title_fullStr Case Report: Intermittent Chest Pain With Cough, Fever, and Pericardial Effusion Over the Course of 1 Year in an 11-Year-Old Girl
title_full_unstemmed Case Report: Intermittent Chest Pain With Cough, Fever, and Pericardial Effusion Over the Course of 1 Year in an 11-Year-Old Girl
title_short Case Report: Intermittent Chest Pain With Cough, Fever, and Pericardial Effusion Over the Course of 1 Year in an 11-Year-Old Girl
title_sort case report: intermittent chest pain with cough, fever, and pericardial effusion over the course of 1 year in an 11-year-old girl
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9326351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35911838
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.896824
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