Fever and an abnormal chest X-ray during the COVID-19 pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a 56-year-old man presented at our emergency department with fever and shortness of breath; Diffuse pulmonary nodular vascular spread lesions were found. Detailed history taking showed a four-week history of fever and night sweats. The man had been under treatment for 2...

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Autores principales: Ruttens, David, Van Kerrebroeck, Margaretha, Vandewalle, Jan, Falter, Maarten, Daenen, Marc, Thevissen, Kristof, Wirix, Mieke, Thomeer, Michiel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7392070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32789106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101167
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author Ruttens, David
Van Kerrebroeck, Margaretha
Vandewalle, Jan
Falter, Maarten
Daenen, Marc
Thevissen, Kristof
Wirix, Mieke
Thomeer, Michiel
author_facet Ruttens, David
Van Kerrebroeck, Margaretha
Vandewalle, Jan
Falter, Maarten
Daenen, Marc
Thevissen, Kristof
Wirix, Mieke
Thomeer, Michiel
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description During the COVID-19 pandemic, a 56-year-old man presented at our emergency department with fever and shortness of breath; Diffuse pulmonary nodular vascular spread lesions were found. Detailed history taking showed a four-week history of fever and night sweats. The man had been under treatment for 2 years with Adalimumab, a tumor-necrosis-factor (TNF) inhibitor, for ulcerative colitis. Before start, screening by tuberculin skin test was negative. Cultures en PCR on BAL and urine were positive for mycobacterium tuberculosis also ocular findings were present. The diagnosis of military tuberculosis was made.
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spelling pubmed-73920702020-07-31 Fever and an abnormal chest X-ray during the COVID-19 pandemic Ruttens, David Van Kerrebroeck, Margaretha Vandewalle, Jan Falter, Maarten Daenen, Marc Thevissen, Kristof Wirix, Mieke Thomeer, Michiel Respir Med Case Rep Case Report During the COVID-19 pandemic, a 56-year-old man presented at our emergency department with fever and shortness of breath; Diffuse pulmonary nodular vascular spread lesions were found. Detailed history taking showed a four-week history of fever and night sweats. The man had been under treatment for 2 years with Adalimumab, a tumor-necrosis-factor (TNF) inhibitor, for ulcerative colitis. Before start, screening by tuberculin skin test was negative. Cultures en PCR on BAL and urine were positive for mycobacterium tuberculosis also ocular findings were present. The diagnosis of military tuberculosis was made. Elsevier 2020-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7392070/ /pubmed/32789106 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101167 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Thomeer, Michiel
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