A Diagnosis Not to Miss: A Case of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome
Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome is a rare disease attributed to complications of pelvic inflammatory disease secondary to chlamydia or gonorrhea infections. Patients generally complain of vague abdominal pain that is often acute in onset, with or without genitourinary complaints. We present a case of Fitz...
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| description | Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome is a rare disease attributed to complications of pelvic inflammatory disease secondary to chlamydia or gonorrhea infections. Patients generally complain of vague abdominal pain that is often acute in onset, with or without genitourinary complaints. We present a case of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome with a young female who presents with a complaint of right upper quadrant abdominal pain for 2 months’ duration. She initially had no genitourinary complaints. She underwent a diagnostic laparoscopy and cholecystectomy during which adhesions from the lateral liver to the abdominal wall were visualized. The cholecystectomy did not relieve her pain. She later complained of abnormal vaginal bleeding for 15 days one month prior to her admission, unbeknownst to the medical team on admission. A chlamydia DNA probe test was positive, and the diagnosis of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome was made. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a0eb796cd1494cfea8799350424206192022-12-22T04:34:10ZengHindawi LimitedCase Reports in Infectious Diseases2090-66332022-01-01202210.1155/2022/1185314A Diagnosis Not to Miss: A Case of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis SyndromeJenny Choy0Vikas Sethi1Jose Mosco-Guzman2Thomas Hoffman3Weston Connelly4HCA HealthcareHCA HealthcareHCA HealthcareHCA HealthcareHCA HealthcareFitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome is a rare disease attributed to complications of pelvic inflammatory disease secondary to chlamydia or gonorrhea infections. Patients generally complain of vague abdominal pain that is often acute in onset, with or without genitourinary complaints. We present a case of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome with a young female who presents with a complaint of right upper quadrant abdominal pain for 2 months’ duration. She initially had no genitourinary complaints. She underwent a diagnostic laparoscopy and cholecystectomy during which adhesions from the lateral liver to the abdominal wall were visualized. The cholecystectomy did not relieve her pain. She later complained of abnormal vaginal bleeding for 15 days one month prior to her admission, unbeknownst to the medical team on admission. A chlamydia DNA probe test was positive, and the diagnosis of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome was made.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1185314 |
| spellingShingle | Jenny Choy Vikas Sethi Jose Mosco-Guzman Thomas Hoffman Weston Connelly A Diagnosis Not to Miss: A Case of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
| title | A Diagnosis Not to Miss: A Case of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome |
| title_full | A Diagnosis Not to Miss: A Case of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome |
| title_fullStr | A Diagnosis Not to Miss: A Case of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Diagnosis Not to Miss: A Case of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome |
| title_short | A Diagnosis Not to Miss: A Case of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome |
| title_sort | diagnosis not to miss a case of fitz hugh curtis syndrome |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1185314 |
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