Esophageal brucellosis? Straight to the goat.
Brucella melitensis
Brucellosis
Esophageal
Hepatitis
Location
Journal
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
ISSN: 1878-3511
Titre abrégé: Int J Infect Dis
Pays: Canada
ID NLM: 9610933
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2022
Sep 2022
Historique:
received:
28
04
2022
revised:
23
05
2022
accepted:
25
05
2022
pubmed:
1
6
2022
medline:
9
9
2022
entrez:
31
5
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We report the case of a 58-year-old immunocompetent man from Algeria, who presented to the hospital with fever and hepatic cytolysis. Abdominal computed tomography scan showed a homogeneous splenomegaly and a hypodense 12-mm mass on the posterior wall of the esophagus. After ruling out tuberculosis, the patient was diagnosed with brucellosis. Patient was cured after receiving 6 weeks of oral doxycycline and intravenous gentamicin during the 7 first days of therapy. Such treatment was considered as an acceptable alternative of the recommended first-line therapy. This case illustrates the diagnostic issues in the context of an authentic brucellosis presenting as upper gastrointestinal symptoms, with impaired general condition.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35640829
pii: S1201-9712(22)00319-8
doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.05.054
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Anti-Bacterial Agents
0
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
276-278Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors have no competing interests to declare.