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Hemodialysis patients have weakened immune systems and can exhibit fever due to various causes. Herein, we describe the case of a 61-year-old hemodialysis patient who exhibited intermittent low-grade fever after a pacemaker had been implanted 2 months before due to sick sinus syndrome. She had a
A clinical case of Black Water Fever following Plasmodium falciparum infection is reported. The patient had no previous history of malaria and had not taken anti-malarials as prophylasis. He was free from G-6-PD deficiency and abnormal haemoglobins. He had acute intravascular haemolysis,
We describe two cases of chronic Q fever in hemodialysis patients (HD). In the first case, we discovered chronic Q fever when looking for the cause of an unexplained fever. In the second case, Q fever was diagnosed in a patient who complained of an unexplained shoulder arthritis. To our knowledge
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Fever of unknown origin is a complex problem in dialysis patients with recently rejected renal allografts, due to the contribution of the newly withheld immunosuppressive agents to the immunosuppression of uremia, resulting in an atypical presentation of infections, a main cause of fever
A syndrome of headache, chills, sweating, nausea, and exhaustion during and after haemodialysis is described and likened to metal fume fever. A patient has been cured of this syndrome following removal of copper-containing parts from the water-path of her home dialysis system.
The occurrence of fever during various blood purification methods was evaluated in a retrospective study. It could be demonstrated, that patients treated chronically by conventional hemodialysis experience six times more febrile episodes than patients on chronic hemofiltration (4.84% versus 0.81%).
Patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) are predisposed to malignancy. A patient who presented with a persisting fever, episodically above 38 degrees C, of unknown origin is described. The diagnosis of the illness remained elusive, over repeated hospital admissions and comprehensive
Fever of unknown origin (FUO) in hemodialysis (HD) patients represents a diagnostic challenge because differential diagnosis includes diverse etiologies. Causes of FUO in the general population can be classified into 3 diagnostic categories: infections, tumors, and noninfectious inflammatory
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Hemodialysis (HD) patients are susceptible to atypical tuberculosis (TB), especially among patients presenting with fever of unknown origin (FUO), because of their impaired cellular immunity. Diagnostic trials of anti-TB drugs are therefore recommended in some TB endemic countries,
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The adverse effects of yellow fever (YF) vaccine in dialysis patients are not well known. There is concern about the risks and benefits of the vaccine in immunocompromised patients living in endemic areas, particularly given the risk of resurgence of urban YF with the spread of Aedes
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Infectious disease is the second most common cause of death in patients receiving hemodialysis (HD). When presenting to the emergency department (ED) with fever, it remains a diagnostic challenge to distinguish patients with potentially life-threatening bacterial infections from those
For women on maintenance dialysis, pregnancy is still uncommon. The outcome of such pregnancies has improved in recent case series. Here, we report in detail the treatment of five successful pregnancies in dialysis patients from our centre. The present case series also includes the first successful
A unique patient who developed pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta after coronary artery bypass grafting is presented. This case is peculiar due to the presenting symptom being fever of unknown origin. It is the first description of a patient on hemodialysis, who developed ascending aortic
A 55-year-old man was transferred to our hospital with unilateral lung lesions, a persistent fever and vague chest pain with arthralgia lasting for three months. He had been treated for end-stage renal disease with hemodialysis for 15 years and had a medical history of recurrent subcutaneous
Hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) is a clinicopathological reflection of uncontrolled activation of macrophages. To our knowledge, only a few cases of tuberculosis-associated HPS in hemodialysis have been reported in the English literature. We report a case of tuberculosis-associated HPS during