Case 22-2005: An 81-year-old man with cough, fever, and altered mental status

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 287-295

  Hollander, Harry ^a   Schaefer, Pamela W ^b,c   Hedley Whyte, E Tessa ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ATENOLOL; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; DIGOXIN; FLUDARABINE; GENTAMICIN; GLIBENCLAMIDE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METRONIDAZOLE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; WARFARIN; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMNOLENCE; THALAMUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PATHOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CONFUSION; COUGH; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEVER; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; SPINAL CORD; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 22344452261     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc059017     Document Type: Article

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