VOLUME 2 , ISSUE 1 ( January-April, 2017 ) > List of Articles
CM Agrawal, Manish R Pahadia, Shubham Gupta, Haritej Anand
Citation Information : Agrawal C, Pahadia MR, Gupta S, Anand H. Pan Digital Gangrene: A Rare Phenomenon in Scrub Typhus. J Mahatma Gandhi Univ Med Sci Tech 2017; 2 (1):35-37.
DOI: 10.5005/jp-journals-10057-0029
License: CC BY 3.0
Published Online: 00-04-2017
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Scrub typhus is an acute, febrile zoonosis, caused by an obligate intracellular bacterium We report a case of a 70-year-old female, farmer by occupation, who presented with acute febrile illness and was diagnosed as scrub typhus. She subsequently developed vasculitis, which resulted in pan digital gangrene. After thorough workup for digital gangrene, it was established that scrub typhus is the cause of gangrene in this patient. Thus, our inference is that vasculitis might be seen in very few cases of scrub typhus and it may progress up to gangrene of digits. Only one such case has been reported, thus making it a very rare phenomenon. Rijhwani P, Charan A, Agrawal CM, Pahadia MR, Gupta S, Anand H. Pan Digital Gangrene: A Rare Phenomenon in Scrub Typhus. J Mahatma Gandhi Univ Med Sci Tech 2017;2(1):35-37.
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