Pleural and Pericardial Effusions: Rare Presentations of Brucellosis, Iran
We report a rare case of brucellosis presenting with pleural and pericardial effusions in a 35 year-old male rancher in Iran with fever and dyspnea. Such findings should prompt inclusion of brucellosis in the differential diagnosis in endemic areas.
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doaj-2c9d3320d1ff40efba85bd0d89ff03c92020-11-25T03:42:50ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesActa Medica Iranica0044-60251735-96942011-05-01495Pleural and Pericardial Effusions: Rare Presentations of Brucellosis, IranAbdolreza Soudbakhsh0Maryam Roham1SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi2Hamid Emadi Kochak3Willi McFarland4Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Iranian Research Center for HIV/AIDS (IRCHA), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.University of California, San Francisco, USA.We report a rare case of brucellosis presenting with pleural and pericardial effusions in a 35 year-old male rancher in Iran with fever and dyspnea. Such findings should prompt inclusion of brucellosis in the differential diagnosis in endemic areas. https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/3750BrucellosisPericardial effusionPleural effusionIran |
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Abdolreza Soudbakhsh Maryam Roham SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi Hamid Emadi Kochak Willi McFarland Pleural and Pericardial Effusions: Rare Presentations of Brucellosis, Iran Acta Medica Iranica Brucellosis Pericardial effusion Pleural effusion Iran |
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Abdolreza Soudbakhsh Maryam Roham SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi Hamid Emadi Kochak Willi McFarland |
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Pleural and Pericardial Effusions: Rare Presentations of Brucellosis, Iran |
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Pleural and Pericardial Effusions: Rare Presentations of Brucellosis, Iran |
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Pleural and Pericardial Effusions: Rare Presentations of Brucellosis, Iran |
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Pleural and Pericardial Effusions: Rare Presentations of Brucellosis, Iran |
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Pleural and Pericardial Effusions: Rare Presentations of Brucellosis, Iran |
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pleural and pericardial effusions: rare presentations of brucellosis, iran |
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences |
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Acta Medica Iranica |
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0044-6025 1735-9694 |
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2011-05-01 |
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We report a rare case of brucellosis presenting with pleural and pericardial effusions in a 35 year-old male rancher in Iran with fever and dyspnea. Such findings should prompt inclusion of brucellosis in the differential diagnosis in endemic areas.
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Brucellosis Pericardial effusion Pleural effusion Iran |
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https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/3750 |
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