Two cases of brucellosis with different clinical manifestation Case Report

Abstract

Brucellosis is an important zoonotic infection which is a problem of public health in our country The infection can develop with pulmonary cutaneous neurological gastrointestinal genitourinary cardiovascular and hematological complications As brucellosis can mimic many diseases with different clinical manifestations we emphasized that the disease should be taken into consideration in the differential diagnosis Thus we presented two different cases of brucellosis with relatively uncommon complications one of which is nbsp; thrombocytopenia and the other is infective endocarditis Turk Arch Ped 2007; 42: 37 9 Key words: Brucellosis endocarditis thrombocytopenia

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Değişik klinik görünümler ile gelen iki brusella olgusu Olgu Sunumu

Öz

Bruselloz ülkemiz için önemli bir halk sağlığı sorunu olan zoonotik bir hastalık olup akciğer deri sinir sistemi sindirim sistemi genitoüriner kardiyovasküler ve hematolojik komplikasyonlar ile seyredebilmektedir Burada ender görülen bir komplikasyon olan trombositopeni ile seyreden bir olgu ile enfektif endokardit kliniğinde gelen bir diğer olguyu sunarak brusella enfeksiyonlarının değişik klinik görünümler ile karşımıza çıkabileceğini ve ayırıcı tanıda akılda tutulması gerektiğini vurgulamak istedik Türk Ped Arş 2007; 42: 37 9 Anahtar kelimeler: Brusella endokardit trombositopeni

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