A case from the library
Confusion and fever in a 29-year-old woman
PsychiatryMedium
Thandiwe Mokoena
29 years · Female
Vitals
- Heart rate
- 119 bpm
- Blood pressure
- 158/112 mmHg
- Resp. rate
- 22 /min
- SpO₂
- 97%
- Temperature
- 104.9 °F
How hard it is
A real-world presentation with one or two atypical features. You'll need targeted questions and the right test to narrow the differential.
The diagnosis is not shown here. Finding it is the case.
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Source
Adapted from a case report published in F1000Research, under the CC BY 4.0 license. The patient's name and some details are invented; the clinical picture follows the report. The report names the diagnosis.
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