MARANTIC THROMBOSIS OF INTRA-CRANIAL VEINS COMPLICATING TYPHOID FEVER

Superior Sagittal Sinus Thrombosis Complicating Typhoid Fever in a Teenager

Cerebral venous sinus (sinovenous) thrombosis (CSVT) is a rare life-threatening disorder in childhood that is often misdiagnosed. CSVT encompasses cavernous sinus thrombosis, lateral sinus thrombosis, and superior sagittal sinus thrombosis (SSST). We present an adolescent girl who was well until two weeks earlier when she had a throbbing frontal headache and fever with chills; she later had dys...

A Case of Hemiplegia Complicating Typhoid Fever

Hemiplegia is one of the rare complications of typhoid fever. Osier and McCrae in their " Modern Medicine," 3rd edition, do not giv? any actual figures. Tice, in his 11 Practice ol Medicine," quotes 42 cases collected by Smithies of which six were fatal. Whatever the actual number of cases, cerebral lesions complicating typhoid are sufficiently uncommon to call for note. A girl of fourteen year...

A Case of Gangrene Complicating Typhoid Fever

fever with headache, the fever being continuous and high for three weeks, then becoming intermittent for 10 days. During the' period of high fever, he was semicomatose. When the fever had been intermittent for a few days, the toes of both feet became quite cold and numb, and the following day both feet were greatly swollen to just above the ankles. Five days later a burning sensation was felt i...

Typhoid Fever and Typhoid Carriers

Typhoid Fever

Between one and five percent of travelers from industrialized countries to the developing world seek medical attention during or immediately after their travel.1 International travelers who present to the emergency department (ED) with fever pose a unique challenge to the emergency physician (EP). In addition to the usual causes of fever, the EP must consider less common diseases in the differe...