Abstract:A 61-year-old Han Chinese male presented with 4-5 weeks of failure to thrive, hiccups, malaise, and fevers up to 101.5 at home. The patient had been admitted one week prior due to similar symptoms. His primary care physician recently (within 3 months) started gabapentin and chlorpromazine for hiccups, and allopurinol for gout. Drug fever was suspected, and the patient was asked to discontinue gabapentin, allopurinol and chlorpromazine. A short infectious workup for eosinophilia was negative for Herpes Simplex,… Show more
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