Can you diagnose this case of a 50-year-old male with a 10-week history of high fever, mucopurulent cough, dyspnoea, right-sided chest pain, weight loss and night sweats 
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A 65-year-old male resident of Guatemala presented with a 5-month history of distal symmetric arthritis and generalized fatigue. This was associated with night sweats, chills, and weight loss. Symptoms were refractory to oral prednisone and hydroxychloroquine.

Case report (Dr A Winter) A Peruvian man in his 30s was admitted as an emergency with a 3 week history of fluctuating temperatures and rigors, a worsening sore throat, and a 4 day history of non-bloody diarrhoea without significant abdominal pain. On further inquiry he denied respiratory, neurological, or urinary symptoms, but admitted to night sweats for the past 4 months and some 20 kg weight...

There is a longstanding interest in the relationship between diet and hot flash symptoms during midlife, especially whether phytoestrogens ease menopausal symptoms. The purpose of this study was to examine flashes, night sweats, trouble sleeping, vaginal dryness relation intake foods rich among Bangladeshi women aged 35 59 years who were living either Sylhet, Bangladesh (n = 157) or as migrants...

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is a rare, self-limiting disease of unknown aetiology presenting with cervical lymphadenopathy, fever, vomiting, weight loss, night sweats and chills. Familial occurrence of KFD is reported very rarely in literature. We report two cases from the same family presenting with KFD. The two non-twin sisters presented with symptoms of fever, cervical lymphadenopathy, we...

Background. Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In Armenia, case reports of active TB increased from 590 to 1538 between 1990 and 2003. However, the TB case detection rate in Armenia in 2007 was only 51%, indicating that many cases go undetected or that suspected cases are not referred for confirmatory diagnosis. Understanding why Armenians do not seek or ...

A 57-year-old man with type II mixed cryoglobulinaemia presented to the emergency department with a history of worsening lethargy, malaise and non-drenching night sweats in a relapsing-remitting pattern. He was diagnosed with type II mixed cryoglobulinaemia 7 months ago following episodes of fever, night sweats, lethargy and malaise associated with a non-blanching, purpuric, raised erythematous...

A 38-year-old man with a ventriculoatrial shunt presented with non-specific symptoms (headache, back pain, night sweats) and inconclusive laboratory results. He showed an extremely high titre of antibody to Staphylococcus epidermidis which proved diagnostic of shunt infection. This was confirmed on shunt removal and he was successfully treated.