Acute brucellosis as unusual cause of immune thrombocytopenia: A case report and review of the literature
10.12980/APJTB.4.2014C1324
- Author:
Tajeldin Mohammedien ABDALLAH
1
;
Abuelgasim OSMANKAROUM
1
;
Abdel Aziem ABDALLAH ALI
1
;
Omer Mohammed ABD ELBAGI
2
Author Information
1. Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kassala University
2. Faculty of Medicine, Gezira University
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Brucella;
Thrombocytopenia;
Tone marrow
- From:Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
2014;4(9):751-754
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
A 25 year-old male patient was admitted to the causality with complaints of fever, joints pain, epistaxis and gingival bleeding, for the last week, the complete blood count revealed pancytopenia. Serological test for brucella was reported positive as 1/320, but the patient failed to respond to brucella treatment for 4 d. On day 5th the diagnosis of immune thrombocytopenia was confirmed after bone marrow aspiration. Steroid was initiated on 6th day after admission and on the 3rd day of steroid therapy thrombocytes count was raised to 55×10
