Al Mousa Abdullah I
Department of Medicine, King Fahd Specialist Hospital, Buraidah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Int J Health Sci (Qassim). 2008 Jul;2(2):157-62.
Brucellosis is a multisystem disease with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations. Hematologic complications in the form of mild pancytopenia are occasionally reported in the course of acute brucellosis. Rarely, thrombocytopenia is severe and can be associated with purpura and mucosal bleeding. Epistaxis as the initial manifestation of brucellosis is a rarely reported phenomenon. A case of young adult is being reported who presented with epistaxis due to brucellosis-induced thrombocytopenia.
布鲁氏菌病是一种具有广泛临床表现的多系统疾病。在急性布鲁氏菌病病程中,偶尔会报告以轻度全血细胞减少形式出现的血液学并发症。血小板减少症很少严重,且可能与紫癜和黏膜出血相关。鼻出血作为布鲁氏菌病的初始表现是一种很少被报告的现象。本文报告一例因布鲁氏菌病诱发血小板减少症而出现鼻出血的年轻成年人病例。