Rhabdomyolysis in Scrub Typhus: An Unusual Presentation
نویسندگان
چکیده
Scrub typhus is the most common zoonosis of public health importance in rural areas of Asia, Northern Australia and Pacific Islands. The clinical spectrum of the disease varies from acute febrile illness to multi-organ involvement with systemic complications. Delay in diagnosis and treatment often lead to increased morbidity and mortality. Rhabdomyolysis is a rare complication seen in an infectious disease. We report a 50-year-old farmer with scrub typhus presented with rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure who succumbed to the disease in hospital.
منابع مشابه
Scrub Typhus with Unusual Presentation
Scrub typhus is an acute, febrile zoonosis caused by an obligate intracellular bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi. The clinical manifestations of the disease range from subclinical to fatal organ failure. The common symptoms are fever, chills, headache, myalgia, dry cough, lymphadenopathy, and gastrointestinal disturbances. The presentation with complications is usually due to delay in diagnosis ...
متن کاملEpididymo-orchitis: a rare manifestation of scrub typhus in a child.
cal countries but has protean manifestations. The classical presentation of fever with eschar and accompanying gastrointestinal, respiratory or neurological involvement is seen only in a small percentage of cases. Unusual and distracting symptoms and signs have been increasingly associated with scrub typhus, hence, a high index of suspicion should be entertained in febrile children, especially ...
متن کاملAtypical eschar: An unusual cutaneous manifestation of scrub typhus.
chigger fever, is a mite-transmitted zoonosis caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. The vector is the larval stage (chigger) of the trombiculid mite (Leptotrombidium deliense and several other Leptotrombidium spp). The mites and the rodents that carry them serve as the major reservoirs1. Scrub typhus is widely prevalent in the ‘tsutsugamushi triangle’ region of the world spanning the Indian subcont...
متن کاملRickettsial infection presenting as culture-negative meningitis.
Meningitis is an unusual presentation of rickettsial infection. We report a patient who was confirmed by serology to have typhus fever (not scrub), but who presented with the typical findings of culture-negative bacterial meningitis. Neurological manifestations of different types of rickettsial infection are discussed.
متن کاملAtypical Case of Scrub Typhus
Scrub typhus, also called tsutsugamushi disease in Japan, is one of the most common rickettsial diseases in this country. Fever, skin rash, eschar and elevated hepatic enzymes are main clinical features of scrub typhus. We present the case of a 55 year-old woman contracted with this infection without skin eruption and abnormal liver function. The finding of an unusual eschar helped us to make a...
متن کامل