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 "hepatitis" symptom

  • benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis
  • cholangiocarcinoma
  • congenital toxoplasmosis
  • dracunculiasis
  • esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
  • hirschsprung disease
  • inclusion body myositis
  • legionellosis
  • neuralgic amyotrophy
  • papillon-lefèvre syndrome
  • primary effusion lymphoma
  • pyomyositis
  • scrub typhus
  • severe combined immunodeficiency
  • typhoid
  • waldenström macroglobulinemia

This symptom has already been validated