Ministry of Health issues guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of Whitmore's disease

Nguyen Trinh

14:54, 10/07/2024

Recently, the Minister of Health promulgated Decision No. 6101/QD-BYT issuing Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of Whitmore's disease.

Whitmore disease has common acute clinical manifestations such as:

- Pneumonia, patients may experience high fever, chills, and productive cough with purulent sputum. Lesions may progress to necrotizing pneumonia leading to respiratory failure and septic shock;- Septicemia, which can easily progress to septic shock and multi-organ failure causing death.

Additionally, this disease also has less common manifestations such as:

- Intra-abdominal abscesses: liver abscess, spleen abscess, iliopsoas abscess;- Skin and soft tissues: non-specific diverse lesions such as skin ulcers, subcutaneous abscesses, scattered pustules, cellulitis, fasciitis, muscle abscesses;- Urinary tract: pyelonephritis, prostatitis, prostatic abscess;- Bones and joints: osteomyelitis, septic arthritis;- Nervous system: purulent meningitis, brain abscess, meningoencephalitis;- Cardiovascular: pericarditis, aneurysm;- Abscess or suppurative inflammation of parotid gland;- Lymphadenitis.

For details, refer to Decision 6101/QD-BYT which became effective on December 30, 2019.

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