Cardiovascular and pulmonary complications of epidemic typhus.
A case of typhus fever associated with cardiac and pulmonary complications is reported. The patient was a 24-year-old Egyptian female with characteristic clinical presentation of rickettsial infection, though no rash was present throughout the course of the disease. We could not find a report of such complications in the English medical literature.
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007730:Kuwait; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000209:etiology*; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000209:etiology*; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000209:etiology*; D014438:Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne / Q000150:complications*