The Vanishing Infarct: A Rare Presentation of MERS Due to Salmonella Infection in Middle-Aged Patient

Enteric fever is caused by Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi A and B, which can present clinically with variety of symptoms. We report a case of a middle-aged gentleman with salmonella infection who developed reversible corpus callosum splenium infarcts, which is an unusual presentation of e...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of the Association of Physicians of India 2024-12, Vol.72 (12), p.e52
Hauptverfasser:	Lakhpatia, Parth, Revankar, Vaishnavi, Kelkar, Suchitra, Chincholkar, Sangeeta, Dalal, Kuldeep, Kadam, Nikhil, Jadhav, Rajkumar
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use Cerebral Infarction - diagnosis Cerebral Infarction - etiology Corpus Callosum - diagnostic imaging Corpus Callosum - pathology Humans Magnetic Resonance Imaging Male Middle Aged Salmonella Infections - complications Salmonella Infections - diagnosis Salmonella Infections - drug therapy Salmonella typhi - isolation & purification Typhoid Fever - complications Typhoid Fever - diagnosis Typhoid Fever - drug therapy
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Zusammenfassung:	Enteric fever is caused by Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi A and B, which can present clinically with variety of symptoms. We report a case of a middle-aged gentleman with salmonella infection who developed reversible corpus callosum splenium infarcts, which is an unusual presentation of enteric fever. The condition was reversed with antibiotics routinely used to treat enteric fever in the country.
ISSN:	0004-5772
DOI:	10.59556/japi.72.0765