1. A Rare Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Disease
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Mehmet Celikbilek, Çiğdem Kader, Tuğba Özdemir, Elif Borekci, and Hasan Börekci
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0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Gastrointestinal bleeding ,Nausea ,030106 microbiology ,Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever ,lcsh:QR1-502 ,Pharmaceutical Science ,Disease ,Gastroenterology ,lcsh:Microbiology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Internal medicine ,CCHF ,medicine ,Coagulopathy ,Pharmacology (medical) ,endoscopy ,Gastrointestinal tract ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,fungi ,food and beverages ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,Endoscopy ,Complementary and alternative medicine ,Vomiting ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) disease is a viral haemorrhagic fever syndrome present in Turkey since 2002 [1]. CCHF is transmitted by ticks and can be fatal. Thrombocytopenia and coagulopathy can develop and, because of severe bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract, the prognosis is poor. After 3-7 days of incubation, fever, headache, fatigue, generalised muscle pain, nausea, vomiting, and skin and mucosal haemorrhages can occur [2]. J Microbiol Infect Dis 2016;6(1): 38-39 Key words: CCHF, endoscopy, gastrointestinal bleeding
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- 2016