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A Complicated Thread: Abdominal Actinomycosis in a Young Woman with Crohn Disease

Overview
Journal Case Rep Gastroenterol
Publisher Karger
Specialty Gastroenterology
Date 2017 Jul 11
PMID 28690491
Citations 8
Authors
Ari Nahum
Gregory Filice
Ashish Malhotra
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Abstract

Crohn disease is a chronic inflammatory condition that primarily affects the gastrointestinal tract. Typical manifestations include fever, weight loss, fatigue, and abdominal pain, and abdominal abscesses and fistulae are frequent complications. Abdominal actinomycosis is a subacute or indolent disease associated with spp. Symptoms can be very similar to those of Crohn disease, and fistulae are also common. Since ulcerations in the intestinal tract are thought to be caused by escaping from the gut lumen and establishing intra-abdominal infection, it seems likely that abdominal actinomycosis may occur in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. We report a case of abdominal actinomycosis in a woman with active Crohn disease.

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