Reação de JaRisch-heRxheimeR em Gestante com sífilis: Relato de caso Jarisch-herxheimer reaction in Pregnant Woman With syPhilis: case rePort
Year: 2011
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: Introduction: syphilis is a disease which has been reported since the fifteenth century and still represents a reasonable challenge to public health care sistem. More than 12 million new cases are reported every year, especially in developing countries. With the commerce of penicillin, to which Treponema pallidum is susceptible, the possibility of eradication had been considered true, which however, did not happen. In certain infectious diseases, the first dose of an effective antimicrobial treatment can initiate an inflammatory response in the host. This work presents the case of a pregnant woman, low socioeconomic status, nulllipara, with a dead fetus with 24 weeks, upon receiving therapy for early syphilis, triggered Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction, which occurred at the Hospital for Women Heloneida Stuart, in São João de Meriti, Rio de Janeiro.
Authors: Rinara Grossi, Ana Carolina Barros, Ramon Andrade, Carolina Rocha Galvão, Helena Lucia Barroso Reis, Dennis de Carvalho Ferreira, Glaucio de Moraes, Philippe Godefroy
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2239471083