Article Text
Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
CASE REPORT
Fever, bone pain and erectile dysfunction. Where is the cat?
Summary
Cat-scratch disease is due to Bartonella henselae and commonly presents as a localised papular lesion with regional lymphadenopathy. We report the case of a young man suffering general symptoms and dysautonomy characterised by an erectile dysfunction due to an invasive cat-scratch disease. He was successfully treated by tetracyclines during 3 weeks.
- infections
- infectious diseases
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Footnotes
Contributors All authors equally contributed to the writing of the paper. QT, JCM and GW took care of the patient.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent Obtained.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.