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Title: | Pulmonary Infiltrates and Eosinophilia in a 25-Year-Old Traveler |
Author: | Muñoz Gutiérrez, José Aldasoro, Edelweiss Pinazo, Maria-Jesus Arguis, Pedro Gascón i Brustenga, Joaquim |
Keywords: | Eosinofília Esquistosomes Eosinophilia Schistosoma |
Issue Date: | 13-Jun-2013 |
Publisher: | Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
Abstract: | A 25-year-old Spanish male travelled to Senegal in September 2009, where he swam near the Dindefelo fresh-water falls. Five weeks later, he presented with fever, myalgia, and dry cough. His complete blood count showed a hemoglobin level of 157 g/L, platelet count of 123.000 platelets/µL, and a leukocyte count of 8.670 cells/µL, with 9% eosinophils. Malaria smear, blood cultures, and serologies for common viral and bacterial infections were negative. Titers of an indirect hemagglutination test for Schistosoma mansoni were 1∶80. The patient was treated with a single dose of praziquantel (40 mg/kg) and prednisone (30 mg) for three days. After treatment, the dry cough increased and he developed moderate dyspnea, with increasing malaise and myalgia. A second blood sample revealed eosinophilia of 1.200 cells/µL. A chest X-ray showed patchy infiltrates in both lungs (Figure 1), and a CT scan showed multiple peripheral bilateral pseudonodular lesions with surrounding ground-glass-opacity halo. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002201 |
It is part of: | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013, vol. 7, num. 6, p. e2201 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/148186 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002201 |
ISSN: | 1935-2735 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Medicina) |
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