Kwame Dapaah-Afriyie, Matthew Cannavo, Vijairam Selvaraj
{"title":"Acute Typhlitis in a Patient with Common Variable Immunodeficiency.","authors":"Kwame Dapaah-Afriyie, Matthew Cannavo, Vijairam Selvaraj","doi":"10.56305/001c.33588","DOIUrl":"10.56305/001c.33588","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Typhlitis, or neutropenic enterocolitis is characterized by edema and inflammation of the cecum, ascending colon, and sometimes the terminal ileum. Incidence is anywhere from 3.5 to 5.3%. Resolution usually corresponds with return of neutrophil counts. Here we describe an immunocompromised individual with abdominal pain and diagnosed to have acute typhlitis.</p>","PeriodicalId":520437,"journal":{"name":"The Brown journal of hospital medicine","volume":"1 1","pages":"33588"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11878832/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143569179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}