An Unusual Case of Ehrlichiosis Manifesting With Hyponatremia, Acute Encephalopathy, and Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis

Ehrlichiosis is a tick-borne infection that has become increasingly more common in the United States in recent years. We present a case of a patient who was found to have confusion, hyponatremia, and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis after contracting Ehrlichia chaffeensis following a tick exposure...

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Autores principales: Bolling, Taryn, Ritter, Alaina S, Gupte, Asmita A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9378938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35989779
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26943
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description Ehrlichiosis is a tick-borne infection that has become increasingly more common in the United States in recent years. We present a case of a patient who was found to have confusion, hyponatremia, and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis after contracting Ehrlichia chaffeensis following a tick exposure. This unusual presentation emphasizes the need for increased awareness of the varied symptoms of this infection and the importance of obtaining a complete history from patients at risk of vector-borne diseases.
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spelling pubmed-93789382022-08-18 An Unusual Case of Ehrlichiosis Manifesting With Hyponatremia, Acute Encephalopathy, and Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Bolling, Taryn Ritter, Alaina S Gupte, Asmita A Cureus Internal Medicine Ehrlichiosis is a tick-borne infection that has become increasingly more common in the United States in recent years. We present a case of a patient who was found to have confusion, hyponatremia, and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis after contracting Ehrlichia chaffeensis following a tick exposure. This unusual presentation emphasizes the need for increased awareness of the varied symptoms of this infection and the importance of obtaining a complete history from patients at risk of vector-borne diseases. Cureus 2022-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9378938/ /pubmed/35989779 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26943 Text en Copyright © 2022, Bolling 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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An Unusual Case of Ehrlichiosis Manifesting With Hyponatremia, Acute Encephalopathy, and Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
title An Unusual Case of Ehrlichiosis Manifesting With Hyponatremia, Acute Encephalopathy, and Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
title_full An Unusual Case of Ehrlichiosis Manifesting With Hyponatremia, Acute Encephalopathy, and Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
title_fullStr An Unusual Case of Ehrlichiosis Manifesting With Hyponatremia, Acute Encephalopathy, and Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
title_full_unstemmed An Unusual Case of Ehrlichiosis Manifesting With Hyponatremia, Acute Encephalopathy, and Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
title_short An Unusual Case of Ehrlichiosis Manifesting With Hyponatremia, Acute Encephalopathy, and Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
title_sort unusual case of ehrlichiosis manifesting with hyponatremia, acute encephalopathy, and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9378938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35989779
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26943
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