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Typhoid fever can have diverse extra-intestinal complications including encephalitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, endocarditis, myocarditis, osteomyelitis, renal abscess, and splenic abscesses. Secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis with rhabdomyolysis is a rare complication of typhoid fever. Here, we present the case of an adolescent with typhoid fever complicated by rhabdomyolysis and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis.

Abdominal Abscess , Lymphohistiocytosis, Hemophagocytic , Myocarditis , Rhabdomyolysis , Splenic Diseases , Typhoid Fever , Adolescent , Humans , Typhoid Fever/complications , Typhoid Fever/diagnosis , Typhoid Fever/drug therapy , Lymphohistiocytosis, Hemophagocytic/complications , Splenic Diseases/complications , Splenic Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Myocarditis/complications , Rhabdomyolysis/complications

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