- 著者
- Yutaro Akiyama Shinichiro Morioka Yuji Wakimoto Akira Kawashima Kohei Kanda Ayako Okuhama Tetsuya Suzuki Yusuke Miyazato Hidetoshi Nomoto Satoshi Ide Takato Nakamoto Keiji Nakamura Masayuki Ota Yuki Moriyama Saho Takaya Kota Yamada Maho Taguchi Erika Sugito Shinji Izuka Kenji Ishiguro Toshiaki Kobayashi Wataru Miyake Shuji Kubota Masahiro Ishikane Noriko Kinoshita Kei Yamamoto Mugen Ujiie Satoshi Kutsuna Kayoko Hayakawa Sho Saito Norio Ohmagari
- 出版者
- The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.5614-20, (Released:2020-11-02)
- 参考文献数
- 7
- 被引用文献数
- 2
Objective In fever clinics screening coronavirus disease (COVID-19), there could be patients with life-threatening diseases that physicians should not overlook. We exploratorily investigated the final diagnosis among non-COVID-19 hospitalized patients who visited the fever clinic. Methods This was a retrospective, observational, and single-centered study conducted in the National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM), Tokyo, Japan. We conducted a retrospective chart review of patients who visited the fever clinic in the NCGM from 11 March 2020 to 24 April 2020. Patients Patients who met the following clinical criteria visited the fever clinic in the NCGM: (1) body temperature >37.5°C, (2) any symptoms consistent with COVID-19 or (3) referral from local healthcare facilities. In the fever clinic, all patients who met the above criteria had severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 polymerase chain reaction test with nasopharyngeal swab specimens. Patients with severe symptoms or an unstable condition were sent to an outpatient clinic for infectious diseases for further evaluation and treatment. Results Among 1,470 patients who visited the fever clinic, 84 patients were hospitalized, and 45 of them were diagnosed as having COVID-19. Among the remaining 39 non-COVID-19 patients, there were nine patients with life-threatening diseases. The life-threatening diseases included acute heart failure, septic shock, pneumocystis pneumonia, peritonsillar abscess, and necrotizing fasciitis. Conclusion Physicians should evaluate each patient carefully while considering other life-threatening conditions even in such a COVID-19 pandemic era.
- 著者
- Takehiro Hashimoto Satoshi Kutsuna Takahiro Maeki Shigeru Tajima Saho Takaya Yuichi Katanami Kei Yamamoto Nozomi Takeshita Kayoko Hayakawa Yasuyuki Kato Shuzo Kanagawa Norio Ohmagari
- 出版者
- 国立感染症研究所 Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases 編集委員会
- 雑誌
- Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases (ISSN:13446304)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.JJID.2017.181, (Released:2017-09-11)
- 参考文献数
- 14
- 被引用文献数
- 4
Dengue fever remains underreported in Africa due to lack of awareness among healthcare providers, the presence of other febrile illnesses, and insufficient laboratory testing. We present a case of imported dengue fever from Burkina Faso to Japan, where an outbreak of dengue was reported on October 18, 2016. The phylogenetic analysis revealed that the isolate from our patient belonged to a distinct of sylvatic dengue viruses, suggesting that dengue viruses have been maintained in the mosquitoes and human cycles in Burkina Faso for more than 30 years.