parotite epidemica

Also known as epidemic parotitis, parotitis

malattia infettiva acuta

AI overview

Mumps is a contagious viral disease that starts with fever and body aches, then typically progresses to painful swelling of the glands on the sides of the face. It matters because it's preventable through vaccination, though some infected people have no symptoms at all and can still spread the virus to others.

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Key facts

Medical condition.name: Mumps
Medical condition.synonyms: Epidemic parotitis
Medical condition.field: Infectious disease
Medical condition.image: Mumps PHIL 130 lores.jpg
Medical condition.caption: Child with mumps showing characteristic facial swelling
Medical condition.symptoms: Parotitis and non-specific symptoms such as fever, headache, malaise, muscle pain, and loss of appetite
Medical condition.complications: Deafness, inflammatory conditions such as orchitis, oophoritis, and pancreatitis, and rarely sterility
Medical condition.onset: 7–25 days after exposure
Medical condition.duration: Usually less than two weeks
Medical condition.causes: Mumps virus
Medical condition.risks: Exposure to someone with mumps
Medical condition.diagnosis: Antibody testing, viral cultures, and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction
Medical condition.prevention: Mumps vaccine
Medical condition.treatment: Supportive
Medical condition.medication: Pain medication, intravenous immunoglobulin
Medical condition.prognosis: Usually excellent; case fatality rate of 1.6–3.8 people per 10,000 pre vaccination (US, 1966–1975)
Medical condition.frequency: 385,000+ (387,529 reported) (2023)

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Research

13,001 papers

Mumps.ReviewLancet (London, England) · 2008Hviid A, Rubin S, Mühlemann KDOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60419-5
Current Status of Mumps Virus Infection: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Vaccine.ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Su SB, Chang HL, Chen AKDOI: 10.3390/ijerph17051686
Mumps Orchitis: Clinical Aspects and Mechanisms.ReviewFrontiers in immunology · 2021Wu H, Wang F, Tang D et al.DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.582946
Mumps.Pediatrics in review · 2023Noor A, Krilov LRDOI: 10.1542/pir.2022-005919
Mumps.JAMA · 2019Grennan DDOI: 10.1001/jama.2019.10982
Remembering mumps.ReviewPLoS pathogens · 2015Latner DR, Hickman CJDOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004791
Mumps: An Emergency Medicine-Focused Update.ReviewThe Journal of emergency medicine · 2018Bockelman C, Frawley TC, Long B et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2017.08.037
Mumps.Journal of special operations medicine : a peer reviewed journal for SOF medical professionals · 2017Burnett MWDOI: 10.55460/SWWG-QACE

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: symptom or sign
Subclass of: disease
Image: Mumps.jpg

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minimal incubation period in humans: 14
Commons category: Mumps
topic's main category: Category:Mumps
NCI Thesaurus ID: C29888
health specialty: pediatrics
Commons gallery: Mumps
ICPC 2 ID: D71
exact match: identifiers.org/doid/DOID:10264
maximal incubation period in humans: 23
symptoms and signs: xerostomia
anatomical location: meninges
ICD-9-CM: 072
risk factor: smoking
disease transmission process: airborne transmission
possible treatment: symptomatic treatment
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

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Article · Italiano

La parotite (o parotite epidemica), più conosciuta con il nome popolare di orecchioni o gattoni, è una malattia infettiva acuta di origine virale. Si localizza primariamente ad una o entrambe le parotidi, grosse ghiandole salivari poste nel retrobocca, dietro ai rami della mandibola oppure sotto le orecchie. Si tratta di una malattia tipicamente infantile, che, in particolare prima delle estese campagne vaccinali, colpiva con maggior frequenza i bambini fra i 5 e i 9 anni e decorso in genere benigno, ma può colpire qualunque età e, nella fattispecie, se questa malattia colpisce dopo la pubertà o in età adulta può dare più facilmente complicanze gravi come l'orchite (la più frequente, 30-40% dei casi) che può condurre anche se raramente alla sterilità, dato che il virus può spostarsi, tra i vari distretti, anche ai testicoli. Inoltre gli adulti sono maggiormente soggetti a complicanze meningoencefalitiche anche in assenza delle tipiche manifestazioni dell'infezione alle ghiandole salivari, fra cui la sordità improvvisa di tipo sensoriale, bilaterale e permanente causata da danni diretti del virus al nervo acustico, rappresentando una delle principali cause di questo tipo di sordità.

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