User:Mr. Ibrahem/Lemierre syndrome
| Lemierre syndrome | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Lemierre's syndrome, infectious disease[1] |
| Symptoms | Early: Fever, neck pain[1] Later: |
| Frequency | 1 to 6 per million people per year[1][3] |
Lemierre syndrome is infectious thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein.[2][4] Initial symptoms include fever, neck pain, and neck swelling.[1][2] Generally the pain and swelling is one sided and occurs at the angle of the jaw.[2] Later symptoms may include pneumonia, pleural empyema, sepsis, brain abscess, and septic emboli.[1][2] Complications may include septic shock, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and end organ failure.[2]
It most commonly occurs follow a
lateral pharyngeal space.[2] Diagnosis is generally based on symptoms and ultrasound or CT scan; as culture results take around a week.[1]
Treatment is generally with around two weeks of
abscesses.[3][1] With treatment, the risk of death is 5 to 18%.[2] Before the availability of antibiotics, the risk of death was 90% over about 2 weeks.[3][1]
Lemierre's syndrome occurs in 1 to 6 per million people per year.[1][3] Young adults males are most commonly affected.[1] In 1936, André Lemierre described 20 cases where throat infections was followed by sepsis.[5][2]
References
- ^ PMID 32303484.
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- ^ ISBN 978-3-030-12641-4. Archivedfrom the original on 17 October 2022. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ "Lemierre syndrome" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
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