%0 Journal Article
%T Angiomatose Bacilar em Doente Imunocompetente: A Prop¨®sito de um Caso Cl¨ªnico
%A Faria
%A Ana Lu¨ªsa
%A Carvalho
%A Ricardo
%A Lima
%A Nuno
%A Castanheira
%A Rui
%J Arquivos de Medicina
%D 2008
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X bacillary angiomatosis is a recently described disease characterized by vascular lesions of skin, viscera or both. although primarily associated with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection, bacillary angiomatosis has been described in non-hiv immunosuppressed and immunocompetent patients as well. bartonella have been found to be responsible for bacillary angiomatosis and most cases respond readily to antimicrobial therapy. this is a clinic case of an immunocompetent patient with a history of cat contact who presented with many widespread cutaneous lesions. abdominal ct revealed intraabdominal lymphadenopathies, histopathology of cutaneous biopsy only revealed mononuclear infiltrate and dna analysis by pcr (polimerase-chain-reaction) for bartonell spp. in cutaneous biopsy and in blood were positive. the patient was treated with doxycycline for three months, with complete resolution.
%K bacillary angiomatosis
%K bartonella henselae
%K bartonella quintana
%K warthin-starry stain.
%U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0871-34132008000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en