UMMS Affiliation
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases And Immunology; Department of Medicine, Division of Community Internal Medicine
Publication Date
2018-02-17
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Cardiovascular Diseases | Infectious Disease | Virus Diseases | Viruses
Abstract
Splenic infarction is a rare complication of infectious mononucleosis. We describe 3 cases of splenic infarction attributed to infectious mononucleosis that we encountered within a 2-month period. We underscore the awareness of this potential complication of infectious mononucleosis and discuss the differential diagnosis of splenic infarction, including infectious etiologies. While symptomatic management is usually sufficient for infectious mononucleosis-associated splenic infarction, close monitoring for other complications, including splenic rupture, is mandated.
Keywords
Epstein-Barr virus, infectious mononucleosis, splenic infarction
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© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
DOI of Published Version
10.1093/ofid/ofy041
Source
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2018 Feb 17;5(3):ofy041. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofy041. eCollection 2018 Mar. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Open forum infectious diseases
Related Resources
PubMed ID
29577060
Repository Citation
Li, Yan; George, Ann; Arnaout, Sami; Wang, Jennifer P.; and Abraham, George M., "Splenic Infarction: An Under-recognized Complication of Infectious Mononucleosis?" (2018). Open Access Articles. 3393.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/3393
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