Postgraduate Medicine

ISSN: 0032-5481 (Print) 1941-9260 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ipgm20

Prolonged High Fever as a Primary Manifestation of Sarcoidosis Tapan K. Sarkar MD To cite this article: Tapan K. Sarkar MD (1976) Prolonged High Fever as a Primary Manifestation of Sarcoidosis, Postgraduate Medicine, 59:6, 203-205, DOI: 10.1080/00325481.1976.11714402 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00325481.1976.11714402

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• A 27-year-old black woman was admitted to the Hospital for Joint Diseases and Medical Center, New York, on September 1 1, 1974, because of intermittent high fever (temperature 103 to 104 F) since August 1973. The fever was accompanied by chills, night sweats, weight loss of 50 lb in eight months, and amenorrhea for five months. These symptoms were not associated with chest pain, dyspnea, cough, or hemoptysis. There was no history of arthralgia, erythema nodosum, or uveoparotitis. However, two months before admission, the patient had noted stiffness of the small joints of the feet and a burning sensation that extended to the midcalves. She denied having had gastrointestinal or urinary symptoms. In April 1974, the patient bad been hospitalized in another institution for high fever and weight loss. A chest x-ray film had shawn two distinct masses in the hilus of the left lung, and biopsy of a mediastinallymph node bad revealed evidence of noncaseating epithelioid granuloma compatible with sarcoidosis. The patient bad been discharged on a regimen of isoniazid and ethambutol hydro

Case report: prolonged high fever as a primary manifestation of sarcoidosis.

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