Acute septicemic melioidosis presenting with acute cholangitis.
Melioidosis is a disease prevalent in the tropics, especially in Southeast Asia. The most common clinical presentations are bacteremic pneumonia and abscess formation in various organs. Although a wide variety of disease presentations are reported for melioidosis, acute cholangitis has not been previously reported. Herein, we report a 54-year-old woman who had fever, right upper abdominal pain and jaundice 1 week after a flood caused by a typhoon in southern Taiwan. Acute cholangitis and pneumonia with septic shock caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei were subsequently diagnosed.
Lai
C-H
CH
Department of Infectious Disease, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, 1, E-Da Road, Jiau-Shu Tsuen, Yan-Chau Shiang, Kaohsiung County, 824, Taiwan.
Huang
C-K
CK
Chin
C
C
Chen
W-F
WF
Yang
Y-T
YT
Chen
Y-L
YL
Lin
H-H
HH
D000208:Acute Disease; D016957:Burkholderia pseudomallei / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002761:Cholangitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008554:Melioidosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000175:diagnosis; D013624:Taiwan