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- Title
Acute pancreatitis associated with scrub typhus.
- Authors
SV, Padmavathi Devi; M, Aruna; Kumar, Anil C. V.; Krishna Reddy, Hari; BL, Sangeetha; Siva Kumar, V.; Kumar, Anil Cv
- Abstract
Scrub typhus, or tsutsugamushi fever, is a zoonosis of rural Asia and the western Pacific islands. The causative organism, Orientia (formerly Rickettsia) tsutsugamushi, is transmitted to humans by the bite of a larval Leptotrombidium mite (chigger). Scrub typhus may have gastrointestinal presentations, such as acute acalculous cholecystitis, duodenal ulcer perforation, peritonitis and gastric ulceration. Acute pancreatitis with scrub typhus has been reported rarely. We report a patient of scrub typhus complicated by acute pancreatitis and acute kidney injury.
- Subjects
PANCREATITIS treatment; TSUTSUGAMUSHI disease; KIDNEY injuries; KIDNEY transplantation; ZOONOSES
- Publication
Tropical Doctor, 2017, Vol 47, Issue 1, p65
- ISSN
0049-4755
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1177/0049475516657759