منابع مشابه
A Case of Adult Onset Stills Disease
Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) is characterized by fever, rash, and joint pain and may lead to chronic arthritis. The cause of AOSD is unknown, and it is rare. We encountered a patient with adult-onset Still's disease following a sore throat and fever. The patient was a 40-year-old woman who consulted our hospital because of a sore throat, fever and arthritis. She was admitted and treated w...
متن کاملRefractory Adult Onset Still’s Disease
It is often a challenge and a dilemma for clinicians encountering patients with pyrexia of unknown origin. Numerous tests performed to determine the underlying cause often give inconclusive results. We present a 52-year-old man with undulating fever for more than 10 months with persistent hyperferritinaemia, and negative immunological and serological markers. Despite corticosteroids, disease mo...
متن کاملRefractory Coats’ Disease of Adult Onset
PURPOSE We present the case of an 18-year-old Caucasian male with a unilateral macular star and retinal vascular anomalies compatible with adult onset Coats' disease. METHODS Diagnosis was based on fundoscopic, fluorescein angiography and optical coherence tomography findings. RESULTS The patient presented to our emergency department with complaints of low vision in his left eye (LE) detect...
متن کاملPulmonary arterial hypertension and acute respiratory distress syndrome in a patient with adult-onset stills disease
Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) is an inflammatory disorder characterized by recurrent fevers, arthralgia, leukocytosis, and a salmon-colored rash. Diagnosis is made based on the Yamaguchi criteria. Various cardiac and pulmonary manifestations have been described in association with AOSD, including acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). We descr...
متن کامل[A refractory case of adult-onset Still's disease].
We report here a case of adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD), who finally responded to a combination of cyclophosphamide (CPA) and gold sodium thiomalate (GST) after two years of active disease. A 23-year-old man having continuous high fever with skin rash, polyarthralgia and increased serum ferritin, was diagnosed as AOSD, and oral corticosteroid was initially effective. His symptoms recurred o...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cureus
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2168-8184
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.1802