AN INTERESTING CASE OF FEVER WITH ABDOMINAL PAIN

Enteric fever is a common disease which presents with a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations and varied complications. A 13 year male presented with complaints of fever for 2 weeks with vague abdominal pain in the left hypochondrial region of 1 week duration. CECT abdomen revealed multiple splenic infarcts. Further work up showed a 4 fold rise in titres of Oand H antibodies for Salmonella Typhi . After ruling out common causes it was concluded as a case of Splenic Infarct due to Enteric Fever. So we report this case as a rare complication of Enteric fever.