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