Meeting
Abstract Number: 499
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 77-year-old African-American male with Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) was admitted at the hospital for severe thrombocytopenia. The patient had been diagnosed with AOSD four years before this hospital admission. His AOSD was well-controlled with anakinra, an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist, and low-dose prednisone. On admission, the patient did not have any neurological manifestation. […]
Abstract Number: 869
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old female with a past medical history of microcytic anemia and recently-diagnosed AOSD presented with 2 weeks of progressive dyspnea. On her preceding hospital admission, her AOSD was diagnosed and clinical suspicion for MAS was initially mounted. At that time, she demonstrated polyarthralgia, pruritic rash, high-grade fevers, hepatosplenomegaly, diffuse lymphadenopathy, neutrophilic leukocytosis, […]