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BMJ Case Rep. 2010; 2010: bcr0120102690.
Published online 2010 August 3. doi:  10.1136/bcr.01.2010.2690
PMCID: PMC3027725
Reminder of important clinical lesson
Q fever: a case with a vascular infection complication
Sophie Edouard,1,2 Anne-Sophie Labussiere,2 Yves Guimard,2 Pierre-Edouard Fournier,1,2 and Didier Raoult1,2
1Universite de la Mediterranee, URMITE - CNRS UMR 6236 - IRD 198, Marseille, France
2Hôpital Jacques Coeur, Service de Médecine Interne, Bourges, France
Correspondence to Didier Raoult, didier.raoult/at/gmail.com
Abstract
The most common clinical presentation of chronic Q fever is endocarditis with infections of aneurysms or vascular prostheses being the second most common presentation. Here, the authors report a case of vascular chronic Q fever. In this patient, a renal artery aneurysm was discovered by abdominal and pelvic CT during a systematic investigation to identify predisposing factors to chronic Q fever because of high antibody titres in a patient with valve disease.
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