A Diagnosis of Adult-Onset Still's Disease after Multiple Urgent Care Visits

A 34-year-old man with recent treatment and resolution of community-acquired pneumonia presents to the emergency department with protracted fever, rash, and sore throat. Sustained fever and greater than two-fold increase in leukocytosis despite appropriate antibiotic therapy prompted hospital admiss...

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Autores principales: Hu, Kami M., Richardson, Adam C., Blosser, Kelly M., Tewelde, Semhar Z.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6754910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31582982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/6245158
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author Hu, Kami M.
Richardson, Adam C.
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Tewelde, Semhar Z.
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description A 34-year-old man with recent treatment and resolution of community-acquired pneumonia presents to the emergency department with protracted fever, rash, and sore throat. Sustained fever and greater than two-fold increase in leukocytosis despite appropriate antibiotic therapy prompted hospital admission for infectious disease and rheumatologic evaluations which ultimately revealed adult-onset Still's disease, a rare autoinflammatory disorder with potentially life-threatening complications.
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spelling pubmed-67549102019-10-03 A Diagnosis of Adult-Onset Still's Disease after Multiple Urgent Care Visits Hu, Kami M. Richardson, Adam C. Blosser, Kelly M. Tewelde, Semhar Z. Case Rep Med Case Report A 34-year-old man with recent treatment and resolution of community-acquired pneumonia presents to the emergency department with protracted fever, rash, and sore throat. Sustained fever and greater than two-fold increase in leukocytosis despite appropriate antibiotic therapy prompted hospital admission for infectious disease and rheumatologic evaluations which ultimately revealed adult-onset Still's disease, a rare autoinflammatory disorder with potentially life-threatening complications. Hindawi 2019-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6754910/ /pubmed/31582982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/6245158 Text en Copyright © 2019 Kami M. Hu et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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