Mycoplasma pneumonia is an atypical pneumonia commonly affecting young patients with generally mild clinical course. We present a case of a 66-year-old female presenting with weight loss, night sweats and low-grade pyrexia. She acquired symptomatic haemolytic anaemia requiring blood transfusion, markedly raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) to 114 mm/hr and extensive peri-hilar lymphaden...

A 46-year-old African American man presented with weakness and numbness in both legs and pain in the left upper chest of 3 weeks’ duration. He noted no change in urinary or bowel habits,but he had anorexia with more than 30 pounds of weight loss over 3 months. He had no fever or night sweats and no cardiac, respiratory, or gastrointestinal symptoms, but he recalled having generalized painless l...

Methods and findings: A case is presented of a man, 21 years old, with progressive dyspnea, chest pain, night sweats, generalized edema, hemoptysis, pancytopenia and increased serum levels of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), beta-fraction of the hormone chorionic gonodotrophin (beta-HCG) and lactic dehydrogenase. Chest computed tomography showed a mediastinum mass measuring 11.3 x 7.3 cm. A biopsy reve...

A 21-year-old Bangladesh-born man presented with a month history of evolving neurological symptoms in the context of a six-month history of fever, night sweats, and axillary lymphadenopathy. He was subsequently diagnosed with multiple multidrug resistant intracranial tuberculomata and was successfully treated over two years. Intracranial multidrug resistant tuberculosis has a high mortality and...

A 73-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a productive cough, shortness of breath, and an enlarging chest wall mass 2 months after the completion of antituberculous therapy. He had a cough productive of brown sputum. He denied fever, chills, weight loss, hemoptysis, and night sweats. His medical history was notable for hypertension and also for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB...

Granulomatous hepatitis is a syndrome usually characterized by fever of unknown origin, myalgias, hepatosplenomegaly, and arthralgias, right upper quadrant abdominal pain or tenderness, with or without an elevation in serum transaminases. In this article, we outline our experience with a 64-year-old male presenting with a 3.5 weeks history of fever of unknown origin, night sweats, extreme fatig...

Visceral leishmaniasis is a protozoar disease caused by L.donovani. Transmission to humans (incidental host) occurs via insect bite and the phlebotomous (female sand-fly) transmits the disease. Common presentations of the disease include hepatomegaly and splenomegaly, but fever, chills and night sweats may be part of the disease's symptoms. Lymphadenopathy without systemic manifestations i...

A 95-year-old man came with violaceous nodular skin lesions of the left shin. The were not painful or pruritic but progressed rapidly over 3 months. Fever, night sweats, weight loss, and other systemic symptoms absent. Shave biopsy lesion revealed cells negative for CD20 positive BCL2, BCL6, FOX-P1, CD10. PET/CT showed high uptake in leg a sizeable hypermetabolic lymph node pelvis. patient was ...

Menopause is a period of cessation menstruation caused by decrease in the hormones estrogen and progesterone causing several symptoms that occur such as night sweats, insomnia, hot flashes, anxiety, fatigue, depression, memory disorders (senility), urogenital symptoms, urinary (dysuria), painful intercourse (dyspareunia). This causes discomfort climacteric women, to reduce discomfort, processed...

visceral leishmaniasis is a protozoar disease caused by l.donovani. transmission to humans (incidental host) occurs via insect bite and the phlebotomous (female sand-fly) transmits the disease. common presentations of the disease include hepatomegaly and splenomegaly, but fever, chills and night sweats may be part of the disease's symptoms. lymphadenopathy without systemic manifestations i...