Mysterious Looks of Typhoid Fever: A New Experience

Authors

  • Deepankar Kumar Basak Specialist-Gastroenterology, Square Hospitals Ltd, Dhaka
  • Richmond Ronald Gomes Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Ad-din Women?s Medical College & Hospital, Dhaka
  • Md Ashraf Uddin Ahmed Specialist-Internal Medicine, Square Hospitals Ltd, Dhaka
  • ABM Sarwar E Alam Consultant, Internal Medicine, Square Hospitals Limited, Dhaka

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/bccj.v3i1.24104

Keywords:

Acute Pancreatitis, Hepatitis, Enteric Fever, Typhoid, Abdominal pain, Fever, Shortness of Breath, Pulmonary Hypertension

Abstract

Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid) is a common infectious disease worldwide, especially in developing countries like Bangladesh. Typhoid fever caused by the gram negative bacterium Salmonella typhi that may have a wide spectrum of clinical presentations. We report a case of a 17 year old previously healthy college boy who presented with fever, abdominal pain and shortness of breath later on who was eventually diagnosed as having typhoid fever complicated by acute pancreatitis, hepatitis and severe pulmonary hypertension. Enteric fever presenting as acute pancreatitis and pulmonary hypertension is a rare entity and must be considered in endemic areas like Bangladesh, in patients presenting with fever and concomitant severe abdominal pain and shortness of breath, as any delay in timely institution of treatment can prove fatal. There are very few case reports in the world which have depicted this unusual association.

Bangladesh Crit Care J March 2015; 3 (1): 36-38

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Deepankar Kumar Basak, Specialist-Gastroenterology, Square Hospitals Ltd, Dhaka



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Published

2015-07-10

How to Cite

Basak, D. K., Gomes, R. R., Ahmed, M. A. U., & Alam, A. S. E. (2015). Mysterious Looks of Typhoid Fever: A New Experience. Bangladesh Critical Care Journal, 3(1), 36–38. https://doi.org/10.3329/bccj.v3i1.24104

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Case Reports

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