Case Presentation: A 28 year old Nepali female presented with convulsive activity and one week of progressive changes in behavior and mental acuity. She had polyarthralgia, painful cervical lymph nodes, malar rash, subjective fever, headaches, and fatigue for 2 months. Previous workup revealed positive antinuclear antibody (ANA), anti-ribonuclearprotein (RNP), and anti-Ro antibodies with no formal [...]

Case Presentation: A 32 year-old African American man with a history of Kikuchi-Fujimoto’s Disease (KFD), presented with 2 weeks of fever, cervical lymphadenopathy and cough. Laboratory tests showed pancytopenia, elevated ESR, positive double stranded DNA and ANA titer. Complement 3 and 4 levels were low. His fever persisted despite broad spectrum antibiotics. Computed tomography (CT) [...]

Case Presentation: A healthy 24 year old Chinese male was admitted for fever for 3 weeks. His symptoms were associated with chills and rigors, night sweats and loss of appetite. On physical examination, he had enlarged painful cervical and left axillary lymph nodes. Spleen and liver was not enlarged. His laboratory investigations were normal except [...]

Case Presentation: Twenty-two-year-old female with history of asthma presented to Emergency Department with recurrent fevers (101-103F) and tachycardia since June 13, 2023. Patient saw her PCP on 6/10, for fever, tachycardia and abdominal pain and started on Cefdinir for possible sinusitis which she started taking yesterday. Patient had associated non-specific diffused abdominal pain, back pain, [...]

Case Presentation: We present a case of a 22-year-old female with necrotizing lymphadenopathy, later diagnosed with Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD). The patient initially presented with fevers, night sweats, and painful swelling in the left side of her neck progressively worsening over four days. She also reported lightheadedness, a left-sided orbital headache, and a decreased appetite. There [...]