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My brother in law was diagnosed with MDS about 4 weeks ago. For the last 13 days, he has been running a high temperature from 102 - 103+ with brief periods recently of being normal. He has been hospitalized for the last 9 days and has been receiving IV antibiotics even though they cannot determine the source of his infection. His platelets even with frequent transfusions remain under 10,000 which could in part be due to the temperature. In the last few days, his liver enzymes have also been elevated and he is jaundiced. They started him on steroids yesterday, but his temperature rose again to 103 and 104 after being pretty low for the last couple of days. He is classified as RAEB 1.5 and his last white count was around 13,000. Has anyone had anything similar and was the cause of the infection determined?