Aches and pains with a shocking rash

نویسندگان

  • Anila Chacko
  • Sanjay Mahant
  • Astrid Petrich
  • Anupma Wadhwa
چکیده

CASE PRESENTATION A 10-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with a three-day history of fever and generalized rash. Eleven days earlier, she had been camping in Ontario. Activities while camping included sleeping in a tent, hiking in the forest and swimming in a lake. She sustained multiple mosquito bites that were pruritic and subsequently formed scabs. Ten days before presentation, she developed left hip and thigh pain, which progressed in severity over the next three days. She also developed severe generalized myalgia. Three days before presentation she developed a fever and an erythematous, nonpruritic rash. The rash was first noticed on the thigh but soon involved the upper limbs, palms and soles. There was no sore throat or contact with others with fever or rash. Her general practitioner suspected scarlet fever and she was started on amoxicillin. After no improvement over the following day, she presented to the emergency room. On examination in the emergency department, the patient was febrile and her blood pressure was 100/50 mmHg. She had a generalized erythematous macular rash, bilateral injected conjunctiva, jaundice, peeling of the skin on the soles of her feet and multiple hyperpigmented crusted lesions on her legs. She had generalized myalgia with tenderness in the left hip and thigh region. Over the subsequent 6 h to 12 h, her blood pressure dropped to 85/37 mmHg and she had a peak temperature of 39.2°C. She was treated with fluid resuscitation and antimicrobials. Her white blood cell count was 40.4×109/L with a left shift and her platelet count was 72×109/L. She was in renal failure (serum creatinine level 400 μmol/L) and had conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (serum conjugated bilirubin level 138 μmol/L) and mild transaminitis (alanine aminotransferase level 157 U/L, aspartate aminotransferase level 264 U/L). Ultrasound of the left hip showed no joint effusion. X-rays of the femur and lumbosacral spine were unremarkable. What is the diagnosis?

برای دانلود رایگان متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Arthralgias, bodily aches and pains and somatic complaints in midlife women: etiology, pathophysiology and differential diagnosis.

Somatic symptoms characterized by arthralgias, bodily aches and pains, musculoskeletal pain and joint pain have been investigated in a number of menopause and depression studies. Although depression is one of the most common causes of bodily aches and pains, and arthralgias, these same symptoms are also commonly associated with a natural menopause, surgical menopause and menopause induced by ch...

متن کامل

Management of dental ache in Ghanoon

With due regard to the side effects of some modern medications in the recent years, attentions have been drawn to some other alternatives such as herbal medicine. The latter drives from traditional and eastern medicine. Pioneers such as Avicenna are at the center of eastern, Iranian and Islamic medicine. This research aims at drawing attention of physicians, dentists and researchers to the subj...

متن کامل

Typhus Fever in Burma

Case 1.?Clinical assistant, aged 24, complained of fever associated with severe headache and general aches and pains one evening. On examination, temperature was found to be 100?F., pulse 75 per minute full and regular, throat congested, eyes red and face flushed. The fever rose and continued, associated with relatively slow pulse, splitting headache, mental confusion and general restlessness. ...

متن کامل

Management of dental ache in Ghanoon

With due regard to the side effects of some modern medications in the recent years, attentions have been drawn to some other alternatives such as herbal medicine. The latter drives from traditional and eastern medicine. Pioneers such as Avicenna are at the center of eastern, Iranian and Islamic medicine. This research aims at drawing attention of physicians, dentists and researchers to the subj...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

عنوان ژورنال:

دوره 25  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014