Intracranial Abscess and Post-Infectious Vasculitis.

Infect Dis Rep

Department of Hospital Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA.

Published: December 2016

Intracranial abscesses are rare complications of infections, and to our knowledge, there have been no case reports of post-infectious vasculitis developing in such patients. Here we describe the case of a 48-year-old post-splenectomy male who developed post-infectious vasculitis following otitis media complicated by mastoiditis, osteomyelitis, meningitis, and intracranial abscess. Clinicians ought to be aware of the possible adverse outcomes of invasive and the limitations of current treatment options.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5226039PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2016.6844DOI Listing

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