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Hemorrhagic Transformation of Scrub Typhus Encephalitis: A Rare Entity.

[scrub typhus]

Central nervous system (CNS) involvement of scrub typhus infection is well known. Most CNS involvement of scrub typhus infection present as meningitis or encephalitis. We report on a patient suffering from hemorrhagic transformation of intracranial lesions caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. A 53-year-old female farmer who was infected by scrub typhus was treated with doxycycline and recovered from the systemic illness. However, headache persisted. Brain radiologic studies revealed acute intracranial hemorrhage and enhancing lesion, which implied a CNS involvement. Hemorrhagic transformation of encephalitis by scrub typhus is very rare complication and to our best knowledge, this is the first report of hemorrhagic transformation of scrub typhus encephalitis. Clinician should consider the possibility of hemorrhagic transformation of encephalitis in cases of scrub typhus infection.

Diseases presenting "headache" symptom

  • acute rheumatic fever
  • adrenal incidentaloma
  • allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
  • cadasil
  • cushing syndrome
  • cutaneous mastocytosis
  • erdheim-chester disease
  • esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
  • familial mediterranean fever
  • hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis
  • hydrocephalus with stenosis of the aqueduct of sylvius
  • legionellosis
  • locked-in syndrome
  • malignant atrophic papulosis
  • scrub typhus
  • severe combined immunodeficiency
  • sneddon syndrome
  • systemic capillary leak syndrome
  • thoracic outlet syndrome
  • typhoid
  • von hippel-lindau disease

This symptom has already been validated