Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 1-2003. A 43-year-old man with fever and night sweats.

Abstract

Presentation of Case A 43-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of fever, night sweats, weight loss, and headache. The patient had reportedly been well until 15 days earlier, when fever developed. A physician prescribed an unknown medication, but the fever persisted, and on the day of admission the patient's temperature was 40.1°C. The patient was a native of Morocco and had immigrated to this country in the autumn, four months before admission. An eight-year-old son was said to have “dormant tuberculosis.” The patient reported a four-month history of night sweats, a three-month history of “generalized arthralgias,” a two-week . . .