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1. Hookworm infection presenting as recurrent severe anaemia requiring blood transfusion in a Pakistani migrant to Italy

Author

Giorgia Barbarisi, Matteo Piccica, Martina Zavagli, Giulia Bandini, Nicoletta Di Lauria, Alberto Antonelli, Michele Spinicci, Gian Maria Rossolini, Alessandro Bartoloni, Alberto Moggi Pignone, and Lorenzo Zammarchi

Subjects
Transients and Migrants, Hookworm Infections, Ancylostoma, Animals, Humans, Anemia, Blood Transfusion, Pakistan, General Medicine, Ancylostomiasis
Abstract

We report a case of hookworm infection presenting as recurrent severe anaemia in an adult Pakistani migrant to Italy. Clinicians working in non-endemic countries should be aware of this possible cause of anaemia, approachable by a microscopic stool examination that could avoid invasive and time-consuming diagnostic work-up.

Published
2021
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2. Atypical imported severe primary dengue presenting with neutrophilic leukocytosis and cardiac tamponade in a young female traveler

Author

Lorenzo Zammarchi, Silvia Bresci, Antonia Mantella, Nicoletta Di Lauria, Alessandro Bartoloni, Iacopo Vellere, and Annalisa Cavallo

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Travel, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, business.industry, Leukocytosis, Neutrophilic leukocytosis, macromolecular substances, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Neutrophilia, Severe dengue, Dengue fever, Cardiac Tamponade, Dengue, Internal medicine, Cardiac tamponade, medicine, Humans, Female, Severe Dengue, medicine.symptom, business, Young female
Abstract

We report an atypical imported severe primary dengue presenting with neutrophilic leukocytosis, elevated inflammatory markers, myopericarditis and cardiac tamponade. Dengue Fever (DF) cannot be excluded in patients presenting with neutrophilic leukocytosis and elevated inflammatory markers which may anticipate severe dengue with myocardial involvement.

Published
2021

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