Massive small bowel bleeding caused by scrub typhus in Korea

作     者：Ki Beom Bae Won Hwa Youn Youn Jae Lee Soo Jin Jung Kwan Hee Hong 

作者机构：Department of SurgeryInje University College of MedicineBusan Paik Hospital Department of Internal MedicineInje University College of MedicineBusan Paik Hospital Department of PathologyInje University College of MedicineBusan Paik Hospital 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery》 (世界胃肠外科杂志（英文版）（电子版）)

年 卷 期：2010年第2卷第2期

页      面：47-50页

学科分类：1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100401[医学-流行病与卫生统计学] 10[医学] 

基　　金：Supported by A grant from Inje University  2008 

主　　题：Hematochezia Small bowel bleeding Scrub typhus Vasculitis Multiple small bowel ulcerations 

摘      要：A 79-year-old man was diagnosed with scrub typhus based on fever,eschar,skin rash and a markedly elevated serum tsutsugamushi antibody and doxycycline was *** days later,hematochezia developed and multiple small bowel ulcerations with hemorrhage were seen on *** intensive therapy,the massive hematochezia worsened and the distal small bowel was *** ulcerated lesions were identified pathologically as vasculitis caused by scrub *** is the first reported case of pathologically proven small bowel involvement in scrub typhus infection.