ABSTRACT
Lemierre's syndrome or postanginal septicaemia is described in the literature as an unusual complication of oropharyngeal infection. In most cases the syndrome is caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum. This disease usually occurs in young healthy individuals with an oropharyngeal infection, implying high fever, cervical tumefaction, and cervical pain, frequently associated with septic lung embolization. This case report is an unusual variant of this disease in a 12-year-old patient whose site of primary infection was the middle ear.
Subject(s)
Fusobacterium Infections/complications , Jugular Veins/diagnostic imaging , Otitis Media/complications , Otitis Media/microbiology , Sepsis/microbiology , Venous Thrombosis/complications , Venous Thrombosis/diagnostic imaging , Child , Drug Therapy , Female , Fusobacterium Infections/drug therapy , Fusobacterium necrophorum/isolation & purification , Humans , Syndrome , Tomography, X-Ray ComputedABSTRACT
El síndrome de Lemierre, o sepsis postanginosa, se ha descrito como una rara complicación de infecciones de la cavidad orofaríngea. Su etiología, en la mayoría de las ocasiones, se debe a Fusobacterium necrophorum. La clínica ocurre generalmente en pacientes jóvenes y sanos que, en el curso de una faringoamigadalitis, presentan dolor cervical y fiebre alta debido a la trombosis de la vena yugular interna, frecuentemente en relación con embolias pulmonares sépticas. El caso presentado es poco habitual, dentro de la rareza de este síndrome, ya que se produce en una niña de 12 años en el curso de una otitis media aguda
Lemierre's syndrome or postanginal septicaemia is described in the literature as an unusual complication of oropharyngeal infection. In most cases the syndrome is caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum. This disease usually occurs in young healthy individuals with an oropharyngeal infection, implying high fever, cervical tumefaction, and cervical pain, frequently associated with septic lung embolization. This case report is an unusual variant of this disease in a 12-year-old patient whose site of primary infection was the middle ear
Subject(s)
Female , Child , Humans , Otitis Media/complications , Sepsis/etiology , Fusobacterium Infections/complications , Jugular Veins/physiopathology , Venous Thrombosis/physiopathology , Neck Pain/etiology , Fusobacterium necrophorum/pathogenicityABSTRACT
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