Fever and Rash: Revisiting Measles.

Abstract:

:Fever and rash are a common combination of symptoms in the young adult patient. The etiologic investigation is usually oriented towards the most common diseases, but atypical presentations of less frequent conditions should also be recalled. We describe the case of a 44 year-old Portuguese woman who presented with fever, conjunctivitis, cough and rash, rapidly evolving to hepatitis and extensive pneumonia with respiratory failure. Although she claimed to be vaccinated according to the national immunisation schedule, a final diagnosis of primary measles pneumonia was clinically made and confirmed by serology. However, some less typical features mislead us initially. Although the rare form of primary measles pneumonia is more prevalent among immunosuppressed patients, our patient was immunocompetent. Moreover, absence of contagiousness, as was the case, occurs more frequently in atypical measles. This case highlights the need to always confirm the alleged vaccination status in adults and raises attention to some unusual features of typical measles. :Febre e exantema são uma combinação comum de sintomas no jovem adulto. A investigação etiológica é geralmente direcionada para as doenças mais frequentes, mas apresentações atípicas de condições menos frequentes também devem ser recordadas. Apresentamos o caso clínico de uma mulher portuguesa de 44 anos que apresentou quadro caracterizado por febre, conjuntivite, tosse e exantema, evoluindo rapidamente para hepatite e pneumonia extensa com insuficiência respiratória. Embora afirmasse ter o programa nacional de vacinação actualizado, os achados clínicos e o resultado serológico foram conclusivos de pneumonia primária a sarampo típico. Contudo, algumas manifestações menos típicas tornaram o diagnóstico menos óbvio. Embora a forma rara de pneumonia primária a sarampo seja mais frequente nos doentes imunodeprimidos, a nossa doente era imunocompetente. A ausência de contágio, tal como neste caso, ocorre mais frequente no sarampo atípico. Este caso clínico pretende mostrar a importância da confirmação do estado vacinal nos adultos, sublinhando ainda algumas apresentações atípicas de sarampo típico.

journal_name

Acta Med Port

journal_title

Acta medica portuguesa

authors

Barbosa JR,Martins AS,Ruivo J,Carvalho L

doi

10.20344/amp.9776

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-06-29 00:00:00

pages

341-345

issue

6

eissn

0870-399X

issn

1646-0758

journal_volume

31

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