184 Clinical profile, laboratory profile and complications of paediatric scrub typhus in rural Eastern India

Abstract

ConclusionIn a country like India, especially in rural and resource limited areas, where IgM ELISA might not be available easily at hand, it is pertinent to have a high index of suspicion for scrub typhus and more so in the endemic regions. The predominant clinical signs like hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy or the characteristic finding of eschar along with raised ALT,AST and decreased platelets can prompt the treating physicians to initiate the treatment early, thus preventing severe morbidity and mortality.

The first case report of acute myocardial infarction in young adult caused by scrub typhus

“…[2,3] The most typical symptoms in adults were fever and headache, and fever in pediatric. [3,4] Cardiac manifestations caused by O tsutsugamushi infection including angina, bradycardia, and electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities were fewer reported recently. [5][6][7] Here we reported a young man with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) after O tsutsugamushi infection and tried to figure out the potential mechanism and how to deal with.…”