S(n)orting Out the Problem: Fever of Unknown Origin and Unexplained Abnormal Transaminases in a Young Male

Cocaine-induced toxicity is seldom described in humans and interesting interactions with other ‘recreational’ drugs are rarely presented, mostly in animal models. We present an interesting and rare case of a young male with a fever of unknown origin and elevated transaminases in whom the cause was f...

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Autores principales: Philips, Cyriac A, Chooracken, Mathews J, Mahadevan, Pushpa, Augustine, Philip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7053802/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32175214
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1543
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author Philips, Cyriac A
Chooracken, Mathews J
Mahadevan, Pushpa
Augustine, Philip
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description Cocaine-induced toxicity is seldom described in humans and interesting interactions with other ‘recreational’ drugs are rarely presented, mostly in animal models. We present an interesting and rare case of a young male with a fever of unknown origin and elevated transaminases in whom the cause was found to be secondary to drug-induced liver injury, confirmed on liver histopathology, related to cocaine abuse.
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spelling pubmed-70538022020-03-13 S(n)orting Out the Problem: Fever of Unknown Origin and Unexplained Abnormal Transaminases in a Young Male Philips, Cyriac A Chooracken, Mathews J Mahadevan, Pushpa Augustine, Philip Cureus Internal Medicine Cocaine-induced toxicity is seldom described in humans and interesting interactions with other ‘recreational’ drugs are rarely presented, mostly in animal models. We present an interesting and rare case of a young male with a fever of unknown origin and elevated transaminases in whom the cause was found to be secondary to drug-induced liver injury, confirmed on liver histopathology, related to cocaine abuse. Cureus 2017-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7053802/ /pubmed/32175214 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1543 Text en Copyright © 2017, Philips et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Philips, Cyriac A
Chooracken, Mathews J
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S(n)orting Out the Problem: Fever of Unknown Origin and Unexplained Abnormal Transaminases in a Young Male
title S(n)orting Out the Problem: Fever of Unknown Origin and Unexplained Abnormal Transaminases in a Young Male
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title_short S(n)orting Out the Problem: Fever of Unknown Origin and Unexplained Abnormal Transaminases in a Young Male
title_sort s(n)orting out the problem: fever of unknown origin and unexplained abnormal transaminases in a young male
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7053802/
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