Rash and Fever: Clues to an Elusive Hematologic Malignancy

An AIDS patient with fever and rash.

Diagnosis: Disseminated histoplasmosis. Although disseminated histoplasmosis occurs episodically in the United States, it is possible that the patient we describe may have acquired the infection during his residence in Panama, which is an area of high endemicity. In 1905, Samuel Darling, a University of Maryland graduate who was stationed in Panama as a US Army pathologist, was the first invest...

Small bowel malignancy: an elusive diagnosis.

Fever, rash and agranulocytosis.

To cite: Khan U, Hadid T. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2017-219403 DESCRIPTION A Caucasian woman aged 74 years successfully underwent laminectomy and decompression surgery for spinal stenosis, which was complicated by wound infection with community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), MRSA bacteraemia and endocarditis. M...

Fever and a rash.

Accepted 30 October 1996 A 37-year-old man presented with acute confusion following five days of back pain, and two days of fever and diarrhoea. On examination he had a fever of 38.7°C, jaundice, neck stiffness, conjunctival suffusion, and a purpuric rash (figures 1 and 2). His pulse was 100 beats/min and blood pressure 100/80 mmHg. The heart sounds were normal. He was tachypnoeic with scattere...

Immunotherapy of hematologic malignancy.

Over the past few years, improved understanding of the molecular basis of interactions between antigen presenting cells and effector cells and advances in informatics have both led to the identification of many candidate antigens that are targets for immunotherapy. However, while immunotherapy has successfully eradicated relapsed hematologic malignancy after allogeneic transplant as well as vir...