STILL’S DISEASE IN ADULTS

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11603/1681-2727.2024.2.14617

Keywords:

Still’s disease, arthralgia, rash, clinical case

Abstract

SUMMARY. Aim – using the example of a clinical case to acquaint practicing doctors with the features of the clinical course of Still’s disease.

A patient hospitalized at the Chernivtsi Regional Clinical Hospital in the infectious department with fever, a maculo-papular rash on the hands and in the «décolletage», pain and swelling of the carpal joints, as well as with high levels of blood ferritin – >1500 mcg/l (norm 13–120 mcg/l), the diagnosis is established – Still’s disease in adults.

Author Biographies

V. D. Moskaliuk, Bukovyna State Medical University

MD, Professor, Head at the Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Bukovynian State Medical University

I. V. Balaniuk, Bukovyna State Medical University

PhD, Associate Professor at the Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Bukovynian State Medical University

S. R. Melenko, Bukovyna State Medical University

PhD, Associate Professor at the Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Bukovynian State Medical University

N. V. Сhernetska, Bukovyna State Medical University

PhD, assistant of the Department of Internal Medicine, Bukovynian State Medical University

I. I. Kravchuk, Bukovyna State Medical University

Assistant at the Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Bukovynian State Medical University

N. V. Kostina, Chernivtsi Regional Clinical Hospital

infectious disease doctor of the Chernivtsi Regional Clinical Hospital

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2024-05-13

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Moskaliuk, V. D., Balaniuk, I. V., Melenko, S. R., Сhernetska N. V., Kravchuk, I. I., & Kostina, N. V. (2024). STILL’S DISEASE IN ADULTS. Infectious Diseases – Infektsiyni Khvoroby, (2), 89–91. https://doi.org/10.11603/1681-2727.2024.2.14617

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No. 2 (2024)

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Brief reports

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