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A 23-year-old man presents with fever, bilateral pulmonary infiltrates, and worsening hypoxia.
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Case report of a 23-year-old man presenting with fever, pulmonary infiltrates, and hypoxia.
May alert clinicians to this presentation in young adults; leaves open its etiology, frequency, and management.
Presentation of CaseA 23-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of fever, bilateral pulmonary infiltrates, and worsening hypoxia.The patient was apparently in excellent health until about one week earlier, when a dry cough developed, with a rise in the temperature to 38.9 °C and chilliness. A physician prescribed a cough preparation, without improvement. During the next few days diffuse arthralgias and myalgias appeared, with increasing fatigue. Two days before entry the patient became dyspneic, with pleuritic left-sided chest pain, and coughed up scanty amounts of blood.On the same day the patient was admitted to another hospital, . . .
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Cabot et al. (1993) conducted a case report in Fever, bilateral pulmonary infiltrates, and worsening hypoxia (n=1). A 23-year-old man presented with fever, bilateral pulmonary infiltrates, and worsening hypoxia following a week of dry cough, arthralgias, and myalgias.
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