• Internal medicine · Dec 2021

    Review Case Reports

    Severe Acute Cholangitis and Bacteremia Due to Campylobacter jejuni: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.

    • Kento Shionoya, Ryosuke Tonozuka, Takao Itoi, Atsushi Sofuni, Takayoshi Tsuchiya, Kentaro Ishii, Reina Tanaka, Shuntaro Mukai, Kazumasa Nagai, Kenjiro Yamamoto, and Itaru Nakamura.
    • Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University, Japan.
    • Intern. Med. 2021 Dec 1; 60 (23): 3737-3741.

    AbstractCampylobacter jejuni is common cause of enteritis, but biliary infection rarely reported. An 82-year-old woman with pancreatic head cancer underwent endoscopic biliary drainage for malignant biliary obstruction. She was subsequently admitted for management of diarrhea. C. jejuni was identified in stool culture. Her symptoms resolved temporarily without antibiotics but flared up with a fever a few days later. She was diagnosed with acute cholangitis and bacteremia with C. jejuni. Endoscopic biliary drainage and antimicrobial administration improved her symptoms. As complications of C. jejuni diarrhea are rare, antibiotics are not necessarily indicated but sometimes are needed to prevent complications.

      Pubmed     Free full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…