Case 14-2021: A 64-Year-Old Woman with Fever and Pancytopenia

N Engl J Med. 2021 May 13;384(19):1849-1857. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2100275.

Authors

Michael D Gibbons¹, Dexter P Mendoza¹, Anem Waheed¹, Miriam B Barshak¹, Julian A Villalba¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Medicine, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton (M.D.G.), and the Departments of Radiology (D.P.M.), Medicine (A.W., M.B.B.), and Pathology (J.A.V.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Radiology (D.P.M.), Medicine (A.W., M.B.B.), and Pathology (J.A.V.), Harvard Medical School, Boston - all in Massachusetts.

PMID: 33979492
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2100275

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Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Anemia / diagnosis
Babesia microti / isolation & purification*
Babesiosis / blood
Babesiosis / complications
Babesiosis / diagnosis*
Bone Marrow Examination
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Fever / etiology
Humans
Lymphohistiocytosis, Hemophagocytic / diagnosis
Middle Aged
Multiple Sclerosis / complications
Nausea / etiology
Pancytopenia / etiology*
Pancytopenia / parasitology
Parasitemia / diagnosis*
Positron-Emission Tomography
Radiography, Abdominal
Spleen / diagnostic imaging
Splenomegaly / diagnostic imaging
Tomography, X-Ray Computed