CHIKUNGUNYA PRESENTING AS ACUTE ABDOMEN – A DIAGNOSTIC CONUNDRUM

Authors

  • Dr. Snehasis Smrutiranjan Das, Dr. Vikyath Shetty HP, Dr. Abhishek G Nair Junior Resident, Department of General Surgery, JIPMER
  • Dr. Gopal Balasubramanian Additional Professor, Department of General surgery, JIPMER

Keywords:

Acute abdomen, chickungunya, hepatosplenomegaly, Aedes aegypti

Abstract

Acute abdomen is one of the day-to-day occurrences in surgical casualty with cases ranging from mild acute pancreatitis to life-taking malefic perforation peritonitis. With impending progressive mortality associated with most of the cases, it demands urgent attention and apt management. The presentation may vary from a stable patient to a patient in hemodynamic instability requiring ICU and ventilator support. In addition to the usual causes of the acute abdomen which include trauma, inflammation, malignancy, and obstruction, medical illness also forms a significant bulk of cases presenting as masquerading acute abdomen. A true surgical abdomen usually warrants an exploratory laparotomy and thus clinicians have to perceive a high risk of suspicion to diagnose with a medical ailment as was our case. 

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Dr. Snehasis Smrutiranjan Das, Dr. Vikyath Shetty HP, Dr. Abhishek G Nair, & Dr. Gopal Balasubramanian. (2022). CHIKUNGUNYA PRESENTING AS ACUTE ABDOMEN – A DIAGNOSTIC CONUNDRUM. EPRA International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (IJMR), 8(3), 236–238. Retrieved from http://www.eprajournals.net/index.php/IJMR/article/view/215