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ArticleCureus2023

Acute Onset Postpartum Pleural Effusion: A Near-Miss Maternal Case Due to Scrub Typhus Infection.

Neema Acharya, Sourya Acharya, Samarth Shukla, Jyotsana Potdar, Tejal Waghe, Ruchita Kabra

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Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Neema AcharyaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Datta Meghe Institute of Health and Education Research (DMIHER), Wardha, IND.
Sourya AcharyaDepartment of Medicine, Datta Meghe Institute of Health and Education Research (DMIHER), Wardha, IND.
Samarth ShuklaDepartment of Pathology, Datta Meghe Institute of Health and Education Research (DMIHER), Wardha, IND.
Jyotsana PotdarDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Datta Meghe Institute of Health and Education Research (DMIHER), Wardha, IND.
Tejal WagheDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Datta Meghe Institute of Health and Education Research (DMIHER), Wardha, IND.
Ruchita KabraDepartment of Medicine, Datta Meghe Institute of Health and Education Research (DMIHER), Wardha, IND.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 32-year-old puerperal patient developed acute onset breathlessness and fever on the third postoperative day. On evaluation, the patient was diagnosed to have scrub typhus pneumonia without any characteristic eschar. The condition was associated with pleural effusion, and it was drained. Azithromycin was used as the drug of choice due to the peripartum status of this patient. The patient improved due to early detection and multidisciplinary timely care. The safe outcome of this near-miss case suggests that fever profile workup, especially in scrub typhus endemic areas, should include scrub typhus testing even if classical signs are absent in the peripartum period.

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endemicperipartumpleural effusionpuerperalscrub typhus

Identifiers

PMID36949983
PMCPMC10027019

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