Salmonella infection and pneumonia in a patient with kyphoscoliosis.
Pulmonary involvement is an uncommon extraintestinal manifestation of salmonellosis. We describe a 30 year old man with mental retardation, presenting with salmonella gastroenteritis and bacteremia. An early pneumonia evolving in the clinical setting of severe kyphoscoliosis, suggests that hematogenous spread to the lungs may occur as a result of abnormalities of the chest wall.
Yossepowitch
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Division of Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
Sviri
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Ben-Yehuda
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Eid
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Safadi
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D000328:Adult; D002443:Ceftriaxone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002511:Cephalosporins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D007738:Kyphosis / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D012480:Salmonella Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000150:complications*
D002511:Cephalosporins; D002443:Ceftriaxone