Encephalitis with convulsive status in an immunocompetent pediatric patient caused by Bartonella henselae
| Autor: | Rosario Cerpa Polar, Gabriela Orellana, Wilmer Silva Caso, José Sánchez Carbonel, Javier Santisteban, Juana del Valle Mendoza |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
Pathology medicine.medical_specialty 030106 microbiology Status epilepticus Disease Serology law.invention 03 medical and health sciences Pediatric patient 0302 clinical medicine Cerebrospinal fluid law medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Polymerase chain reaction Medicine(all) Bartonella henselae biology business.industry Cat-scratch disease General Medicine medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Convulsive status Encephalitis Cat scratch's disease medicine.symptom Immunocompetent business |
| Zdroj: | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) Repositorio Académico-UPC UPC-Institucional Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas instacron:UPC |
| Popis: | Cat scratch's disease caused by Bartonella henselae, is known to be a self-limited benign process in immunocompetent children. The association with neurologic manifestations is very uncommon especially in patient with no immunologic defects and in cases without specific treatment. A 7 years old male patient, without any immunocompromised defect, presented an atypic presentation of the cat scratch disease. The patient came to the hospital in two opportunities in a status epilepticus, in both cases the diagnosis was encephalitis by Bartonella henselae and the evolution with treatment was monitored with PCR (polymerase chain reaction) in cerebrospinal fluid and blood, as well as IFI (IgM, IgG) serology (indirect immunofluorescence). The patient had a favorable clinical and laboratory evolution for 6 months showing no recurrence of the disease. This work has been partially supported by the Programa Nacional de Innovacion para la Competitividad y Productividad ´ (Innovate Per ´ u), under the contract 116-PNICP-PIAP-2015. |
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