Presentation of severe brucellosis in 5-year-old boy - challenges and results

Abstract

Abstract Brucellosis is highly contagious zoonotic bacterial disease caused by gram-negative genus. It has a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations and due to variety and nonspecificity of clinical signs the diagnostics can be very complicated. We present a clinical case of severe chronic brucellosis in a 5-years old boy with long-term course of disease and multiorgan involvement. A different complication of brucellosis including severe syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion (SIADH) are discussed. Despite severe course of disease patient achieved significant clinical improvement due to multidisciplinary approach and optimal etiotropic and pathogenetic treatment.

Keywords

• Brucellosis
• Child
• SIADH
• Hyponatremia
• Bone fractures
• Lymphadenopathy