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Unusual Presentation of a Rare Adult Disease in a 15 Year Old with Charcot's Triad

Authors :
Susan Goode
Anna Zenno
Jackson Williams
Source :
Section on Medicine Pediatrics.
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
American Academy of Pediatrics, 2017.

Abstract

A 15-year-old previously healthy girl presented to the hospital with acute onset fever, epigastric pain, and scleral icterus associated with chills and non-bloody diarrhea. She denied sick contacts, recent travel, or new medications. Family history was significant for a mother with Multiple Sclerosis and a cousin with Crohn's disease (CD). Social history was unremarkable. On arrival, she was febrile to 104 degrees, tachycardic but remained normotensive. On examination, she was nontoxic with obvious scleral icterus. Abdomen was soft, non-distended with RUQ and epigastric tenderness without organomegaly. Murphy's and Rovsing's signs …

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Section on Medicine Pediatrics
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....9147a991a651b5605d7deeaa3488b310
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.140.1_meetingabstract.49