Adult Onset Still’s Disease: A Rare Cause of Fever
Fever remains a challenge for physicians, more so when it lasts a month. Although infections remain the most common cause, noninfective causes should also be looked for. Adult Onset Still’s Disease (AOSD) is a rare cause of fever. It is a diagnosis of exclusion. Here, we present the case report of a...
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| description | Fever remains a challenge for physicians, more so when it lasts a month. Although infections remain the most common cause, noninfective causes should also be looked for. Adult Onset Still’s Disease (AOSD) is a rare cause of fever. It is a diagnosis of exclusion. Here, we present the case report of a young male patient, admitted with high grade fever, for more than a month and after excluding infective causes and common autoimmune diseases we kept the possibility of Still’s disease. He was treated with steroid pulse therapy followed by oral steroid. He was on follow-up for six months and is doing well. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fa9405d9ea024dc78eca6daf399fdeab2022-12-22T01:20:40ZengJCDR Research and Publications Private LimitedJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research2249-782X0973-709X2019-05-01135OD04OD0510.7860/JCDR/2019/41464.12875Adult Onset Still’s Disease: A Rare Cause of FeverDivendu Bhushan0Prashant Kumar1Abhishek Verma2Assistant Professor, Department of General Medicine, AIIMS, Patna, Bihar, India.Senior Resident, Department of General Medicine, AIIMS, Patna, Bihar, India.Senior Resident, Department of General Medicine, AIIMS, Patna, Bihar, India.Fever remains a challenge for physicians, more so when it lasts a month. Although infections remain the most common cause, noninfective causes should also be looked for. Adult Onset Still’s Disease (AOSD) is a rare cause of fever. It is a diagnosis of exclusion. Here, we present the case report of a young male patient, admitted with high grade fever, for more than a month and after excluding infective causes and common autoimmune diseases we kept the possibility of Still’s disease. He was treated with steroid pulse therapy followed by oral steroid. He was on follow-up for six months and is doing well.https://jcdr.net/articles/PDF/12875/41464_250419_41464_CE[Ra1]_F(KM)_PF1(AG_SL)_PN(SL).pdfmultisystem inflammatory disorderpyrexia of unknown originserum ferritin |
| spellingShingle | Divendu Bhushan Prashant Kumar Abhishek Verma Adult Onset Still’s Disease: A Rare Cause of Fever Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research multisystem inflammatory disorder pyrexia of unknown origin serum ferritin |
| title | Adult Onset Still’s Disease: A Rare Cause of Fever |
| title_full | Adult Onset Still’s Disease: A Rare Cause of Fever |
| title_fullStr | Adult Onset Still’s Disease: A Rare Cause of Fever |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adult Onset Still’s Disease: A Rare Cause of Fever |
| title_short | Adult Onset Still’s Disease: A Rare Cause of Fever |
| title_sort | adult onset still s disease a rare cause of fever |
| topic | multisystem inflammatory disorder pyrexia of unknown origin serum ferritin |
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