Rare Diseases Symptoms Automatic Extraction

Acute Legionella pneumophila infection masquerading as acute alcoholic hepatitis.

[legionellosis]

A middle-aged man had deteriorated rapidly in hospital after being misdiagnosed with acute alcoholic hepatitis. Acute Legionnaires disease (Legionellosis) was subsequently diagnosed on rapid antigen urinary testing and further confirmed serologically. This led to appropriate antibiotic treatment and complete clinical resolution. Physicians caring for patients with alcohol-related liver disease should consider Legionella pneumophila in their differential diagnosis even with a paucity of respiratory symptoms.

Diseases presenting "liver disease" symptom

  • benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis
  • carcinoma of the gallbladder
  • cholangiocarcinoma
  • cutaneous mastocytosis
  • erythropoietic protoporphyria
  • legionellosis
  • megacystis-microcolon-intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome
  • neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy
  • papillon-lefèvre syndrome
  • primary effusion lymphoma
  • primary hyperoxaluria type 1
  • pyomyositis
  • typhoid
  • zellweger syndrome

This symptom has already been validated