Ana Sofia Esteves*, Pedro Ribeiro, David Gouveia, Miguel Quesado, Joana Pereira, Helder Nogueira

Traumatology and Orthopedics Department, Centro Hospitalar Tâmega e Sousa, Penafiel, Portugal

*Corresponding Author: Ana Sofia Esteves, Traumatology and Orthopedics Department, Centro Hospitalar Tâmega e Sousa, Penafiel, Portugal.

Received: April 29, 2024; Published: May 21, 2024

Abstract

The authors present a case, a 84 year-old female patient, that entered the Emergency Room (ER) due to a cat bite on the posterior side of the distal third of the leg that led to a rupture of the Achilles tendon. The patient was submitted to surgical treatment and microbiological isolation of Morganella Morgani. After 7 days of intravenous antibiotic therapy with clinical and analytical improvements she got discharged with oral antibiotic therapy. It’s a rare cause of injury of the Achilles tendon. Animal bites are a common cause of ER events that, many times, lead to infections and damage to important anatomic structures, this means that these should not be neglected. The target of this case report is to present a rare occurrence of injury to the Achilles tendon, after infection from a car bite.

Keywords: Infection; Cat Bite; Morganella Morgani; Achilles Tendon

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Citation

Citation: Ana Sofia Esteves.,et al. “Achilles Tendon Rupture After Abscess from a Cat Bite - A Rare Case".Acta Scientific Orthopaedics 7.6 (2024): 28-30.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2024 Ana Sofia Esteves.,et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.