Colorectal Manifestation of Leptospirosis

Letter to Editor Ann Colorectal Res 2019;7(4):1.

Sora Yasri1*, Viroj Wiwanitkit2

1KMT Primary Care Center, Bangkok, Thailand 2Dr DY Patil University, Pune, India

Received: 08-10-2019 *Corresponding authors: Sora Yasri, Revised: 22-12-2019 KMT Primary Care Center, Pune, India Accepted: 22-12-2019 Email: [email protected]

Please cite this paper as: Yasri S, Wiwanitkit V. Colorectal Manifestation of Leptospirosis. Ann Colorectal Res. 2019;7(4):1-1. doi: .

Dear Editor by histological studies. Indeed, gastrointestinal symptoms including diarrhea are observable in eptospirosis is an important zoonotic leptospiral cases with leptospirosis (2). The patient might also Linfection. This infection is common and have severe abdominal pain (2). In severe cases, an endemic in several tropical countries. The patients abdominal CT scan might reveal pancolitis (3). In fact, with leptospirosis usually have high fever and the colon might be an affected organ in leptospirosis. other systematic clinical problems such as renal In rare cases, ischemia of the colon is observed (4, failure and jaundice. The colorectal manifestation 5). In any case presenting with an atypical clinical of leptospirosis is possible but has sparsely been problem, the colorectal manifestation of leptospirosis mentioned. Sometimes, the colorectal presentation may present as a clinical problem. The practitioner of leptospirosis might be missed or incorrectly should hence recognize and consider this disease diagnosed. The good example is the misdiagnosis of in all patients presenting with gastrointestinal leptospirosis as colon cancer (1). Colon ulcers might symptoms along with a history of visiting a tropical be detected via colonoscopy (1). The pathogenesis is endemic area. according to the colonic spirochetosis pathological process. Direct colonic involvement might be shown Conflict of Interests: None declared.

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