A pregnant woman suffering from Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease

Authors

  • Amado Antonio García Odio Hospital General Docente de Nueva Gerona.Isla de la Juventud.

Keywords:

Histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis, Pregnancy. 

Abstract

A case of a 26 year-old, black pregnant woman from Nueva Gerona special municipality of Isla de la Juventud (Youth Island) is presented. The patient was diagnosed 11 years before with personal pathological history of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease at Hermanos Ameijeiras University Hospital in Havana city. As obstetric history she was a primigravida, last date of period July 27th, 2012; she had a spontaneous eutocic delivery with 39, 4 weeks of pregnancy on March 29th, 2013. As she suffered from Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease, a rare and infrequent entity; prenatal follow-up and supervision during delivery and puerperium was carried out. It was the first case report of the Youth Island. The patient had a favorable evolution, supporting the benign and self-limited features of the disease, and the symptomatic treatment exclusively.

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Author Biography

Amado Antonio García Odio, Hospital General Docente de Nueva Gerona.Isla de la Juventud.

Especialista de Primer Grado en Medicina General Integral. Especialista de Primer Grado en Ginecología y Obstetricia. Máster en Medicina Tradicional y Natural. Profesor Auxiliar.

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2015-06-28

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García Odio AA. A pregnant woman suffering from Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease. Rev Ciencias Médicas [Internet]. 2015 Jun. 28 [cited 2025 Aug. 30];19(3):570-7. Available from: https://revcmpinar.sld.cu/index.php/publicaciones/article/view/1944

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 3 (2015)

Section

CASE REPORTS

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