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JAMA Clinical Challenge
December 16, 2019

Fever, Abdominal Pain, and Jaundice in a Pacific Islander Woman

Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Medicine, The Queen’s Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
  • 2Department of Infectious Disease, The Queen’s Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
  • 3Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu
JAMA. 2020;323(3):272-273. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.20118

A 61-year-old woman with a history of uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with progressive right upper quadrant abdominal pain of 1 month’s duration. The pain was sharp, intermittent without radiation, and not exacerbated by eating. She had no subjective fevers, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or weight loss. She had immigrated from Chuuk, Micronesia, to Hawaii 10 years ago and had not traveled overseas since. She denied alcohol use or contact with animals such as pigs.

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