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. 2024 Sep 12;16(9):e69294. doi: 10.7759/cureus.69294

Table 2. Other clinically significant laboratory results and imaging.

ANA: antinuclear antibody, ANCA: antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody, anti-GBM: antiglomerular basement membrane antibody, anti-PF4: IgG antibody against platelet factor 4 (PF4)/heparin complex

Laboratory test Results
1) Autoimmune workup for acute kidney injury Negative (ANA, ANCA, anti-GBM)
2) Acute viral hepatitis panel Negative
3) Blood cultures at admission Both sets were positive for F. tularensis
4) Blood cultures on day five post-admission Both sets were positive for F. tularensis
5) Ehrlichiosis serology Negative
6) Francisella tularensis serology at discharge Positive for elevated IgM and IgG antibodies to F. tularensis
7) Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia panel Negative (anti-PF4 reflexed to serotonin release assay)
8) Lyme disease serology Negative
9) Left groin abscess culture Mixed flora
10) Peripheral smear done at admission Revealed leukopenia and thrombocytopenia, no blasts or schistocytes seen, Megakaryoblasts were seen, and positive for toxic vacuolation and Döhle bodies
11) Rickettsia serology Negative
12) Stool pathogen panel Negative
13) Stool ova and parasites Negative
14) Stool culture No growth
15) Arsenic, lead, and heavy metal toxicity Negative
16) Ultrasound abdomen Hepatomegaly (length > 20.6 cm) and spleenomegaly (length > 15 cm)
17) Transthoracic echocardiogram Normal left ventricle systolic and diastolic function
18) CT chest Bilateral moderate pleural effusions with adjacent compressive atelectasis and multifocal ground glass opacities inflammatory in nature
19) Positron emission tomography-CT Negative for focal uptake, positive for multiple reactive left groin and iliac chain lymph nodes
20) Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain Negative for any acute abnormality
21) CT head perfusion and angiogram of the head and neck Negative for any acute intracranial and vascular abnormality