Acute Severe Calculous Cholecystitis with Multiorgan Failure Complicated by Scrub Typhus.


Journal

Case reports in surgery
ISSN: 2090-6900
Titre abrégé: Case Rep Surg
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101580191

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2019
Historique:
received: 11 12 2018
revised: 27 05 2019
accepted: 17 06 2019
entrez: 26 7 2019
pubmed: 26 7 2019
medline: 26 7 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Scrub typhus is a febrile illness and can present with manifestations ranging from subclinical symptoms to multiorgan failure and death. Scrub typhus is a rare etiology of acute cholecystitis. A patient presenting with the features of acute cholecystitis who does not respond to standard treatment should be screened for scrub typhus in a typhus endemic region. We report a case of a 70-year-old female with acute severe calculous cholecystitis with multiorgan failure complicated by scrub typhus. She improved remarkably after starting doxycycline for scrub typhus. Scrub typhus should be considered as a trigger in a patient presenting with cholecystitis in a typhus endemic region.

Identifiants

pubmed: 31341695
doi: 10.1155/2019/7505108
pmc: PMC6612987
doi:

Types de publication

Case Reports

Langues

eng

Pagination

7505108

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Auteurs

Suman Acharya (S)

Tribhuwan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.
TUTH Boys Hostel, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Jayant Kumar Yadav (JK)

Tribhuwan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Nischal Khanal (N)

Tribhuwan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Raju Bhandari (R)

Tribhuwan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Bikal Ghimire (B)

Tribhuwan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.

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