Severe Adult-Onset Still's Disease Mimicking Systemic Infection

Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) is an uncommon entity that can mimic infection. Patients present with fever for more than 1-week, joint pain, and rash. We report a case of 22-year-old male who presented with fever, sore throat, and abdominal pain. During hospitalization, he had multiple epis...

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Autores principales: Gubbala, Rajani, Jagathkar, Ganshyam, Mayaluri, Nagalakshmikanth Reddy, Raghavendra, K. P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6108292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30186016
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_208_18
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author Gubbala, Rajani
Jagathkar, Ganshyam
Mayaluri, Nagalakshmikanth Reddy
Raghavendra, K. P.
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description Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) is an uncommon entity that can mimic infection. Patients present with fever for more than 1-week, joint pain, and rash. We report a case of 22-year-old male who presented with fever, sore throat, and abdominal pain. During hospitalization, he had multiple episodes of tachycardia and tachypnea requiring mechanical ventilation. The patient had elevated white blood cell count, procalcitonin, and troponin. He was extensively investigated and diagnosed as AOSD. He responded to steroids and was discharged on day 20.
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spelling pubmed-61082922018-09-05 Severe Adult-Onset Still's Disease Mimicking Systemic Infection Gubbala, Rajani Jagathkar, Ganshyam Mayaluri, Nagalakshmikanth Reddy Raghavendra, K. P. Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) is an uncommon entity that can mimic infection. Patients present with fever for more than 1-week, joint pain, and rash. We report a case of 22-year-old male who presented with fever, sore throat, and abdominal pain. During hospitalization, he had multiple episodes of tachycardia and tachypnea requiring mechanical ventilation. The patient had elevated white blood cell count, procalcitonin, and troponin. He was extensively investigated and diagnosed as AOSD. He responded to steroids and was discharged on day 20. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6108292/ /pubmed/30186016 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_208_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6108292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30186016
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_208_18
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