title: [Headache, fever and upper abdominal colic].
abstract: A nine year old boy who had received Ceftriaxone for one week because of suspected bacterial meningoencephalitis developed colicky abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant two days after termination of Ceftriaxone treatment. Stones in the gallbladder were identified as cause of the abdominal symptoms. Ceftriaxone has been reported to result in so-called pseudo-lithiasis of the gallbladder in approximatively 45% of treated patients, 19% of which developed clinical symptoms. Generally, the gallstones dissolve spontaneously when Ceftriaxone treatment was of short duration.
authors.affiliation: Departement für Innere Medizin, Kantonsspital St. Gallen.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Binek
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Herzog
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bärlocher
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hammer
mesh_terms: D002443:Ceftriaxone / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002648:Child; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003085:Colic / Q000209:etiology; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008590:Meningoencephalitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D014463:Ultrasonography
chemical_list: D002443:Ceftriaxone
vernacular_title: Kopfschmerzen, Fieber und Oberbauchkoliken.