Non-surgical management of spontaneous splenic rupture due to Babesia microti infection

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 235-238

  El Khoury, Marc Y ^a   Gandhi, Roshni ^a   Dandache, Patricia ^a   Lombardo, Gary ^a   Wormser, Gary P ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia microti; Babesiosis; Hemoperitoneum; Spleen; Splenic rupture

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; QUININE SULFATE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTION; ANEMIA; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BORRELIA INFECTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEVER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LYME DISEASE; MALAISE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN HEMATOMA; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENOMEGALY;

ADULT; AGED; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HEMOPERITONEUM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SPLEEN; SPLENIC RUPTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; IXODIDA;

EID: 81855193981     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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