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KMID : 0384320120330040243
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Korean Journal of Family Medicine
2012 Volume.33 No. 4 p.243 ~ p.246
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A Case of Scrub Typhus Complicated by Acute Calculous Cholecystitis
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Lee Su-Jin
Cho Young-Hye
Lee Sang-Yeoup
Jeong Dong-Wook
Choi Eun-Jung
Kim Yun-Jin
Lee Jeong-Gyu
Lee Yu-Hyeon
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Abstract
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We report a case of acute calculous cholecystitis through scrub typhus. A 69-year-old woman presented with a history of general myalgia, fever, and right abdominal pain. She referred to our hospital for surgical treatment of clinically suspected acute cholecystitis. Physicians concluded the cause of cholecystitis as gall bladder (GB) stone and proper antibiotics treatment of scrub typhus was started later. The patient developed acute respiratory distress syndrome and multi organ failure through scrub typhus. Five days after admission, the patient was treated with proper antibiotics and discharged on the 13th day after starting doxycycline treatment without any sequelae. In areas endemic for tsutsugamushi disease, even though a patient with GB stone presents with symptoms of acute cholecystitis, careful history and physical examination are required to reveal the existence of eschars or skin eruptions.
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KEYWORD
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Scrub Typhus, Acute Cholecystitis, Gallstones
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