Li Yijia, Stanley Susan, Villalba Julian A, Nelson Sandra, Gelfand Jeffrey
Infectious Diseases Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Division of Infectious Diseases Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Sep 23;7(10):ofaa448. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa448. eCollection 2020 Oct.
Babesiosis with high-grade parasitemia is life-threatening, especially in asplenic hosts. We report an asplenic patient with parasitemia >50% who was successfully treated with prompt red blood cell apheresis and triple therapy with clindamycin + azithromycin + atovaquone. This regimen may be an alternative to poorly tolerated clindamycin + quinine in severe cases.
伴有高等级寄生虫血症的巴贝斯虫病会危及生命,在无脾宿主中尤其如此。我们报告了一名寄生虫血症>50%的无脾患者,该患者通过及时进行红细胞单采术以及克林霉素+阿奇霉素+阿托伐醌三联疗法成功治愈。在严重病例中,该治疗方案可能是耐受性差的克林霉素+奎宁的替代方案。