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A 59-year-old man with a recent deep vein thrombosis presented with a 6-week history of persistent fever, chills, word-finding difficulties, and mild headache.
Case report describing a 59-year-old man presenting with fever, aphasia, and a recent history of deep vein thrombosis.
May prompt consideration of embolic complications in DVT with fever and aphasia; leaves open causal links pending larger studies.
A 59-year-old man presented to the emergency department with fever and chills that began 6 weeks earlier, when a symptomatic deep vein thrombosis (DVT) of the right posterior tibial vein had been diagnosed. The patient had also noticed word-finding difficulties and mild headache for the week before
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Labbé et al. (2021) studied this question. A 59-year-old man with a recent deep vein thrombosis presented with a 6-week history of persistent fever, chills, word-finding difficulties, and mild headache.
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