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ArticleBMJ case reports2024

Pleural and pericardial effusions with fever and altered mental status: an atypical presentation of bartonellosis.

Alex Repko, Ju Young Kim, Ryan Paulus, Brian Rayala

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Alex RepkoSchool of Medicine, VCOM, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Ju Young KimFamily Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA juyoung_kim@med.unc.edu.
Ryan PaulusFamily Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Brian RayalaFamily Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A male in his 60s presented to the emergency department (ED) with a 3-week history of fever and progressive confusion. Initial laboratory and radiographic workup was largely unremarkable except for moderate bilateral pleural effusions. The patient was admitted on broad-spectrum antibiotics and further workup for fever of unknown aetiology. The differential diagnosis was broadened to different zoonotic infections, and subsequent laboratory testing showed a markedly elevated

Indexed as

Bartonella InfectionsPericardial EffusionPleural EffusionAgedDiagnosis, DifferentialHumansImmunoglobulin GMaleMiddle AgedImmunoglobulin GGeneral practice / family medicineInfectionsInfectious diseasesOphthalmologyPericardial disease

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PMID38286581
PMCPMC10826540

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