Intestinal Spirochetosis in an HIV-positive Patient
| Autor: | Julián Solís García del Pozo, Consuelo Martínez Antolinos, Elisa Martínez Alfaro, Adriana Canosa Fernandez, Massimiliano Guillermo Trinidad Pereira |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
hiv infection
medicine.medical_specialty Abdominal pain medicine.diagnostic_test Intestinal spirochetosis business.industry Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Colonoscopy Articles Chronic diarrhoea medicine.disease_cause Positive patient medicine.disease Gastroenterology Asymptomatic colon biopsy Internal medicine Internal Medicine medicine Medicine intestinal spirochetosis Differential diagnosis medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine (2021) Eur J Case Rep Intern Med |
| ISSN: | 2284-2594 |
| DOI: | 10.12890/2021_002686 |
| Popis: | We present the case of an HIV-positive patient admitted because of costal pain secondary to neoplasia. During investigations, a colonoscopy showed non-specific ulcerations. Histological examination resulted in a diagnosis of intestinal spirochetosis. This infection can be asymptomatic or cause non-specific symptoms such as diarrhoea or abdominal pain. Intestinal spirochetosis should be included in the differential diagnosis of colon lesions in patients with HIV infection. LEARNING POINTS: Intestinal spirochetosis is associated with chronic diarrhoea and often with normal colonoscopy. This infection should be included in the differential diagnosis of HIV patients with digestive symptomatology in the absence of other more frequent causes. |
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