Journal of Surgery

Abdominal Complications of Typhoid Fever

Abstract

Ketan Vagholkar, Jimmy Mirani, Urvashi Jain, Madhavan Iyengar and Rahul Kumar Chavan

The natural history of typhoid fever poses both a diagnostic and a therapeutic challenge. Awareness of the clinical features of the primary presentation and of the complications are pivotal to early diagnosis. Typically, aggressive supportive care is all that is needed. However abdominal complications do occur and proper surgical care is required to lower morbidity and mortality.