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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 47-50 |
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Scrub typhus manifesting as electrocardiographic disturbance: A case report and review of literature
Samiksha Gupta, Gautam Jesrani, Saurabh Gaba, Monica Gupta
Department of General Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Gautam Jesrani
Department of General Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/2452-2473.336103
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Scrub typhus (ST) has wide organ system involvement, but cardiac involvement is paramount in this spectrum due to early hemodynamic compromise. Various forms of cardiac involvement have been described in the literature, but we are describing rare electrocardiographic changes in the ST infection. A young male presented in our emergency department with complaints of restlessness and vomiting of 2 days' duration. The patient was having stable vitals on presentation, but his electrocardiogram (ECG) demonstrated second-degree atrioventricular block type 1 (also known Mobitz 1) and Osborn wave in the precordial leads. Further, he was having thrombocytopenia and eventually diagnosed with ST. For this, appropriate antibiotic treatment was given, which led to considerable symptomatic improvement and reversal of the ECG changes.
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