Case 20-2024: A 73-Year-Old Man with Recurrent Fever and Liver Lesions

N Engl J Med. 2024 Jun 27;390(24):2309-2319. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2309383.

Authors

Lakshmi Ganapathi¹, Rory L Cochran¹, Gregory K Robbins¹, Sara Barmettler¹, Steven M Holland¹, Emad I Ababneh¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Departments of Pediatrics (L.G.), Radiology (R.L.C.), Medicine (G.K.R., S.B.), and Pathology (E.I.A.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Pediatrics (L.G.), Radiology (R.L.C.), Medicine (G.K.R., S.B.), and Pathology (E.I.A.), Harvard Medical School - both in Boston; and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (S.M.H.).

PMID: 38924735
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2309383

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Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Aged
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Bacterial Infections / diagnosis
Bacterial Infections / drug therapy
Bacterial Infections / etiology
Bone Marrow / pathology
Common Variable Immunodeficiency* / complications
Common Variable Immunodeficiency* / diagnosis
Common Variable Immunodeficiency* / therapy
Diagnosis, Differential
Digestive System Diseases / diagnosis
Digestive System Diseases / diagnostic imaging
Digestive System Diseases / drug therapy
Digestive System Diseases / etiology
Disease Progression
Fever* / etiology
Granuloma / diagnostic imaging
Granuloma / drug therapy
Granuloma / etiology
Humans
Liver Diseases* / diagnostic imaging
Liver Diseases* / drug therapy
Liver Diseases* / etiology
Liver Neoplasms / pathology
Liver* / diagnostic imaging
Liver* / pathology
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Multiple Pulmonary Nodules / diagnostic imaging
Multiple Pulmonary Nodules / drug therapy
Multiple Pulmonary Nodules / etiology
Recurrence
Relapsing Fever / diagnosis
Relapsing Fever / drug therapy
Relapsing Fever / etiology
Splenomegaly* / diagnostic imaging
Splenomegaly* / drug therapy
Splenomegaly* / etiology
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents