Cholera gravis associated with acute renal failure in a traveler from Haiti to the United States
| Autor: | Farshad Bagheri, Mahendra C. Patel, Argentina González, Samir Sarkar, Andrés Reyes-Corcho, Richard Pinsker, Pablo Lam |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment medicine.disease_cause law.invention Feces Pharmacotherapy Cholera law Pandemic medicine Humans Travel medicine Intensive care medicine Aged Travel business.industry Vibrio cholerae O1 Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Outbreak Acute Kidney Injury medicine.disease Intensive care unit Haiti Anti-Bacterial Agents Infectious Diseases Vibrio cholerae Fluid Therapy New York City Hemodialysis business |
| Zdroj: | Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. 10:236-239 |
| ISSN: | 1477-8939 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.tmaid.2012.10.002 |
| Popis: | Cholera is a gastroenteric disease caused by epidemic or pandemic Vibrio cholerae which still is responsible for over 100,000 annual deaths worldwide. Since October 2010, Haiti experienced a cholera outbreak affecting more than 300,000 persons. Few imported cases related to the Haitian epidemic have been reported so far in the United States and Canada. We presented a patient who developed cholera gravis soon after arrival at New York City from Haiti. The patient needed admission to an Intensive Care Unit, for vigorous intravenous hydration, antibiotic therapy, and hemodialysis due to refractory oliguric renal failure. The patient was discharged the day 6 after admission and V. cholerae O1 was isolated from the stool culture. Cholera can be a life-threatening disease; early recognition based on travel history and clinical features is the corner stone for successful management. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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