Case of Adult-Onset Still's Disease in 65-year-old man

Warchoł Konrad, Niedobylski Sylwiusz, Laszczak Katarzyna, Giżewska Kamila, Królik Paweł. Case of Adult-Onset Still’s Disease in 65-year-old man. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2020;10(9):436-444. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2020.10.09.052 https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/JEHS/article/view/JEHS.2020.10.09.052 https://zenodo.org/record/4036235 The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. § 8. 2) and § 12. 1. 2) 22.02.2019. © The Authors 2020; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 12.09.2020. Revised: 17.09.2020. Accepted: 18.09.2020. Case of Adult-Onset Still’s Disease in 65-year-old man Konrad Warchoł (1); https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9467-680X; konrad.wrh@gmail.com Sylwiusz Niedobylski (1); https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7266-623X; sniedobylski@gmail.com Katarzyna Laszczak (1); https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5084-0273; kasia.laszczak19@gmail.com Kamila Giżewska (1); https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1682-180X; gizewska.kamila@gmail.com Paweł Królik (2); https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8277-1946; pawkrolik@interia.pl Affiliation: 1 – Medical University of Lublin 2 – Geriatrics Department of the Specialist Hospital in Jasło Abstract Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) is an uncommon condition that presents itself as difficult to diagnose, due to non-specific symptoms and the necessity to exclude any underlying causes. We present a case of a 65-year-old man with slight fever, loss of weight, pain and stiffness of joints. After successful diagnosis, corticosteroids were administered, which resulted in rapid improvement in the condition of the patient. Key words: Adult-onset Still's disease; fever; autoimmune disease; join