Answer: Drug Fever

Visual disturbances in dengue fever: an answer at last?

Visual disturbances in dengue infection are uncommon but may result in permanent visual impairment. We report a 32-year-old Chinese woman with dengue infection and she developed retinal haemorrhage, retinal vasculitis and macular detachment. Autoimmune screen revealed a low C4 complement level, possibly due to partial C4 complement deficiency. The patient was treated with steroids and there was...

Cefotaxime in multi drug resistant typhoid fever.

Tigecycline-induced Drug Fever and Leukemoid Reaction

In this study, we describe a patient in whom tigecycline-induced drug fever and leukemoid reaction (LR) after 3 weeks of therapy for pneumonia.A 62-year-old man developed aspiration pneumonia on February 1, 2015. He had received multiple antibiotics at another hospital, but did not respond well. Disease rapidly progressed, and he was referred to our department on February 14. We adjusted the an...

Rapid desensitization for chlorambucil drug fever.

Chlorambucil is an oral alkylating agent, introduced in 1953, that is still used as a primary treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Chlorambucil is usually well tolerated and often administered intermittently, with intervals of months or years between recurrent courses of treatment. Chlorambucil-induced drug fever presents as fever, rigors, and malaise within hours to days of starti...

Multi-drug resistant typhoid fever with diarrhea.

OBJECTIVE To provide information about the characteristics of diarrheal stool in multi-drug resistant typhoid fever and observe the clinical course after treatment with furazolidone or ciprofloxacin. SETTING Hospital based. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Twenty one male children who were positive for multi-drug resistant S. typhi by blood and stool cultures, having diarrhea at the time of hospitaliza...