Abstract

LEGAZA,, Elena Sánchez; GALLEGOS,, Regla Gallego  and  CARRAL, Berta Becerril. Acute bilateral submaxillitis associated to listeriosis in immunosuppressed patient. Salud(i)Ciencia [online]. 2021, vol.24, n.7-8, pp.376-378.  Epub Dec 30, 2021. ISSN 1667-8682.  http://dx.doi.org/10.21840/siic/163980.

Acute bilateral submaxillitis is a rare event, except when it is caused by sialolithiasis. It has been described secondary to allergic, infectious, suppurative or viral processes, autoimmune such as Sjögren's syndrome, drugs such as thiopurines, nitrofurantoin, phenylbutazone, captopril, and after upper airway procedures such as upper endoscopy, orotracheal intubation bronchoscopy and ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for choledocholithiasis). Treatment with tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) antagonist drugs is associated with an increased risk of reactivation of intracellular bacterial infections, so that listeriosis has been described in pathologies that require such treatment, such as rheumatic, dermatological and intestinal diseases, which present other comorbidities or are immunocompromised. Listeriosis mainly causes bacteremia and meningitis, when symptomatic, and infects immunosuppressed persons, where it has a lethality despite 30% antibiotherapy.

We present the clinical case of a male immunosuppressed patient, secondary to a treatment with azathioprine and prednisone followed by adalimumab, for indeterminate inflammatory bowel disease, superinfected by CMV, who after eating meat contaminated by Listeria monocytogenes, suffered a picture of listeriosis bacteremia, which improved with antibiotic treatment, followed by a transient acute bilateral submaxillitis, which subsided with symptomatic treatment (oral hydration). It is the only case described in the literature, in which an immunosuppressed patient treated with adalimumab, suffers from acute bilateral submaxillitis in the context of listeriosis, caused by the mumps virus.

Keywords : listeriosis; sialoadentitis; submaxillary; inflammatory bowel disease; adalimumab.

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