Acute Severe Calculous Cholecystitis with Multiorgan Failure Complicated by Scrub Typhus
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 sh...
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| author | Suman Acharya Jayant Kumar Yadav Nischal Khanal Raju Bhandari Bikal Ghimire |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-116962a276aa40d097368ef42570f3842025-02-03T01:23:24ZengWileyCase Reports in Surgery2090-69002090-69192019-01-01201910.1155/2019/75051087505108Acute Severe Calculous Cholecystitis with Multiorgan Failure Complicated by Scrub TyphusSuman Acharya0Jayant Kumar Yadav1Nischal Khanal2Raju Bhandari3Bikal Ghimire4Tribhuwan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, NepalTribhuwan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, NepalTribhuwan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, NepalTribhuwan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, NepalTribhuwan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, NepalScrub 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7505108 |
| spellingShingle | Suman Acharya Jayant Kumar Yadav Nischal Khanal Raju Bhandari Bikal Ghimire Acute Severe Calculous Cholecystitis with Multiorgan Failure Complicated by Scrub Typhus Case Reports in Surgery |
| title | Acute Severe Calculous Cholecystitis with Multiorgan Failure Complicated by Scrub Typhus |
| title_full | Acute Severe Calculous Cholecystitis with Multiorgan Failure Complicated by Scrub Typhus |
| title_fullStr | Acute Severe Calculous Cholecystitis with Multiorgan Failure Complicated by Scrub Typhus |
| title_full_unstemmed | Acute Severe Calculous Cholecystitis with Multiorgan Failure Complicated by Scrub Typhus |
| title_short | Acute Severe Calculous Cholecystitis with Multiorgan Failure Complicated by Scrub Typhus |
| title_sort | acute severe calculous cholecystitis with multiorgan failure complicated by scrub typhus |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7505108 |
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