ReviewSN comprehensive clinical medicine2021
Hepatosplenic Cat Scratch Disease: Description of Two Cases
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.
- Ultrasound features of visceral cat scratch disease: a rare case of granulomatous hepatosplenic bartonellosis in an immunocompetent patient.Journal of ultrasound · 2026Article
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- Suspected Hepatosplenic Cat Scratch Disease with No Major Symptoms and Negative Serology: A Case Report.The American journal of case reports · 2025Article
- Kawasaki Disease or Cat Scratch Disease? A Diagnostic Dilemma: A Paediatric Case Report and Literature Review.Mediterranean journal of rheumatology · 2025Article
- Uncovering the truth about cat-scratch disease.Open veterinary journal · 2025Review
- The Etiologic Landscape of Lymphoproliferation in Childhood: Proposal for a Diagnostic Approach Exploring from Infections to Inborn Errors of Immunity and Metabolic Diseases.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2024Review
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Abstract
Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a disease usually characterized by self-limited lymphadenopathy of the young man. Rarely CSD, however, can manifest itself as an unusual hepatosplenic form (HS-CSD) in immunocompetent patients. HS-CSD diagnosis is generally based on clinical features, imaging, and serologies, but sensitivity of serologies is very variable, like that of other diagnostic methods, as Warthin-Starry silver stain and isthology. Also there are no specific markers for the follow-up. The use of the CEUS (abdominal contrast-enhanced ultrasound) in HS-CSD is not previously described in literature examined, but we think that CEUS can be of help to diagnosis and follow-up of these patients, even after an initial CT scan, because it is a sensitive method, as seen in other diseases associated with granulomas, such as sarcoidosis. We describe 2 new cases of HS-CSD, and we performed a systematic review of the clinical cases reported in the past 10 years in the literature associated to an analysis of clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic aspects of the disease.
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