Méndez-Sánchez N, Pichardo-Bahena R, Villegas CH, Berron-Pérez RD, Hernández-Bautista VM, Soto-Ramírez L, Alessio LP

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21-year-old boy was admitted to this hospital because of fever, jaundice, nausea and vomiting. The patient had systemic lupus erythematosus since 2001 under medical treatment with mycophenolate mofetil 2 g/d and prednisone 25 mg/d. He has been well until one week before admission, when fatigue developed. On physical examination, he had jaundice and hepatomegaly. The peripheral white-cell count was 2,100 cells per cubic millimeter (80 percent neutrophils), and the hematocrit was 40 percent.