Gastroenterologie
a hepatologie

Visceral Leishmaniasis as a cause of fever of unknown origin: a unique disease pattern shown on [18F]-FDG PET/CT

Gregor Horňák¹, Peter Turcsányi², Vojtěch Látal², Kateřina Aiglová³, František Stejskal⁴, Tomáš Tichý⁵, Ivana Zicklerová⁶, Libuše Quinn¹

+ Affiliation
¹ Klinika nukleární medicíny LF UP a FN Olomouc
² Hemato-onkologická LF UP a FN Olomouc
³ II. interní klinika – gastroenterologická a geriatrická LF UP a FN Olomouc
⁴ Klinika infekčních nemocí 1., 2. a 3. LF UK a FN Bulovka, Praha
⁵ Ústav klinické a molekulární patologie LF UP a FN Olomouc
⁶ Národní referenční laboratoř pro diagnostiku tropických parazitárních infekcí, FN Bulovka, Praha

Summary

This case report describes a 69-year-old man with visceral Leishmaniasis. The progressively worsening clinical condition of the patient, combined with nonspecific imaging findings and laboratory results, led to diagnostic difficulties in identifying this rarely encountered infectious disease in the Czech Republic. The paper is supplemented with an overview of recent epidemiological data, diagnostic procedures, and treatment of Leishmaniasis.

Keywords

Leishmaniasis, PET/CT, fever of unknown origin, hepatopathy

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