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DR. CORNEL:
I have a case report, because
it was dramatic and it is, to say the least,
unusual, perhaps unique. This occurred in 1995.
This eight-year-old girl had previously been
healthy. She presented in our emergency room
with a history of five days of sore throat and
feeling ill. All this is familiar from today's
presentations.
Three days before admission she
had the onset of crampy abdominal pain and then
increasingly severe bloody diarrhea. A fever was
quite high at 102 Fahrenheit for you Americans,
39 Celsius in real numbers.
She was brought to the emergency
room and after a period of observation in the
emergency room for a few hours overnight she was
admitted.
