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Disease Information for Lemierre's Jugular Vein Disease
- Clinical Manifestations
- Signs & Symptoms
- Adolescent
- Head and Neck Soft Tissue Mass
- Lateral Neck Mass
- Lump in Cervical Area
- Neck edema
- Neck Mass
- Neck subcutaneous emphysema
- Tachypnea/Increased respiratory rate
- Neck pain
- Sore throat/Pharyngitis
- Sore Throat/Throat Pain
- Throat Conditions
- Unilateral sore throat
- Constitutional symptoms
- Fever
- Fever, high
- Disease Progression
- Course/Acute
- Course/Lethal
- Course/Potentially lethal/untreated
- Course/Severe illness
- Lethal Potential
- Demographics & Risk Factors
- Population Group
- Population/Previously well
- Young Adult
- Sex & Age Groups
- Population/Adolescent
- Population/Young adult
- Laboratory Tests
- Microbiology & Serology Findings
- Microlab/Anaerobic culture abnormal
- Abnormal Lab Findings (Non Measured)
- High WBC/Left Shift (Lab)
- High WBC/shift increased band forms (Lab)
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Decreased
- Arterial Hgb O2 saturation (Lab)
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Increased
- WBC
- WBC/White Blood Cell Count/Leukocytes (Lab)
- Diagnostic Test Results
- Other Tests & Procedures
- PFT/Carbon monoxide diffusion (DLCO)/Abnormal
- PFT/DLCO (CO diffusion) Decreased
- X-RAY
- Xray/Chest abnormal
- Multiple pulmonary nodules
- Xray/Cavitation/Cavitary lung lesion/Chest
- Xray/Infiltrate, pulmonary/Chest
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- Ultrasound/Neck abnormal
- Associated Diseases & Rule outs
- Rule Outs
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Pneumonia, abscessing staphylococcal
- Temporal/Craniotemporal arteritis
- Associated Disease & Complications
- Abscess, parapharyngeal
- Anaerobic bacterial infection
- Bacteremia Septicemia
- Brain abscess
- Death Outcome
- Embolism, septic, cerebral
- Hypoxia, systemic
- Internal Jugular Vein Thrombosis Septic
- Lung abscess
- Neurologic side effects
- Pneumonia
- Pneumonia, bacterial
- Pneumonia, unresolved/Chronic
- Pneumonia/Bronchopneumonia
- Respiratory distress (adult) syndrome
- Septic pulmonary emboli
- Bacteremia Anaerobic
- Lemierre's Disease
- Multiple Abscesses
- Disease Mechanism & Classification
- Specific Agent
- AGENT/Anaerobes/unusual bacteria (category)
- AGENT/Anaerobic bacteria (ex)
- Class
- CLASS/Pharyngeal involvement/disorder (ex)
- CLASS/Tracheonasal/larynx/pharynx (category)
- Pathophysiology
- Pathophysiology/Abscess tendency
- Pathophysiology/Mixed Anaerobic/Aerobic bacteria
- Process
- PROCESS/Acute infection (ex).
- PROCESS/INCIDENCE/Rare disease (ex)
- PROCESS/Infected organ/abscess (category)
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- PROCESS/Thrombosing process (ex)
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- Drug Therapy - Indication
- RX/Antibiotic
- RX/Oxygen
- RX/Penicillin
- Definition
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Lemierre's disease or syndrome is the possible complication and terminus of severe septic sore throat with oxidative tonsillitis with necrosis and abscess pathology. Anaerobes rake over the infectious process cause seeding into internal jugular vein with thrombophlebitis and septic
emboli. These metastatic abscess occur then in the lung then spread to the brain and elsewhere. Micro emboli cause acute respiratory distress syndrome and multiple patchy pneumonia sites. Very rare often lethal . The treatment is early penicillin. Presentation is with previously
healthy teenager very sick with one week of sore throat with no improvement. Presentation includes lethargy, fever, lateral neck mass, and respiratory distress with obvious septicemia with early non diagnosed source. [Multiple Google Online sources 2008, CRM]
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