Progress of Digestive Endoscopy
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Case report
A Case of Typhoid Fever with Bloody Stool
Kohei KawakamiMitsuhide GotohMichio HidakaTakayuki IsikawaDaisuke IsizukaSatoru TairaHideaki MiyazawaSigeki KanedaKouichi WatanabeIchirou SudohMasaaki MiyaokaFuminori Moriyasu
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2001 Volume 58 Issue 2 Pages 118-119

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54-year-old male had a two-day trip to Korea from March 24-26, 2000. He developed common cold-like symptoms from April 10, 2000. On April 15, the patient had a fever of 38-39℃, and his symptoms did not improve irrespective of medication. Diarrhea and bloody stool began on April 19, and he visited our hospital the following day. Colonoscopy performed immediately and revealed multiple undermining ulcers with peripheral mucosa showing an edematous elevation that located at the terminal ileum. And one of ulcer hemostais was carried out with henwclip device and local injective of HSE and clipping was conducted. After admission, the high fever continued. Blood cultures detected Salmonella typhi.
Patients with high fever with bloody stool and colonoscopy reveals multiple undermining ulcers at the terminal ileum, it is important to suspect typhoid fever and to examine blood culture. There were 7 cases of typhoid fever conformed ideal ulcer by endoscope which is during there 30 years.
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