BILATERAL PNEUMOCOCCAL PAROTITIS

Recurrent bilateral parotitis in acute myeloid leukemia.

Pneumococcal Bacteremia Presenting as Acute Parotitis and Sepsis

We report a case of a 33-year-old female with history of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) presenting with acute febrile illness and unilateral parotid gland enlargement progressing to septic shock. The chest imaging showed bilateral multilobar infiltrates and Pneumococci were identified in the blood cultures. The patient was treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics. The underlying imunosupress...

Bilateral parotitis caused by Mycobacterium chelonae in an immunocompetent child.

This report is of a healthy 3-year-old boy with bilateral parotitis caused by Mycobacterium chelonae. He was treated with antibiotics, but the symptoms did not improve. The biopsy pathology report revealed chronic caseating granulomatous inflammation. After 2 weeks, Mycobacterium chelonae was identified from the biopsy specimen culture. The antibiotics were changed to amikacin and clarithromyci...

Acute bilateral parotitis during chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

John E. Humphries, MD, Department of Pathology, Box 214, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA 22908 (USA) Shpilberg et al. [1] recently presented a 62-year-old man who developed recurrent bilateral parotitis during chemotherapy for acute myelogenous leukemia. The development of parotitis was attributed to the chemotherapy, which consisted of cytarabine and daunorub...

Recurrent parotitis.

Recurrent parotitis in children is a well described but rare condition of unknown cause. The clinical features of 11 children with recurrent parotitis are described.