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| Year : 2016 | Volume
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Adult-onset Still's disease masquerading as sepsis
Rupesh Gupta, Praveen Tagore, Ritika Dhurwe, Jyotsna Kubre, Vaibhav Ingle, Saurabh Saigal
Department of General Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, AIIMS, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Rupesh Gupta
Department of General Medicine, AIIMS, Saket Nagar, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0972-6691.187570
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This is a case of a 30-year-old female who presented with a recent 4-week history of fever with an underlying chronic illness for the last 6 years for which she got evaluated multiple times and received long treatments but did not get relieved. This time, she presented with high-grade fever and palpitation. Electrocardiogram was suggestive of supraventricular tachycardia which was immediately reverted with intravenous adenosine. She was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit for suspected sepsis. However, after a thorough diagnostic microbiologic, serologic, and immunologic workup, she was diagnosed with adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) and was managed with steroids and responded well to treatment. AOSD is a rare condition which could present with a variety of clinical features resembling sepsis. |
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