La fiebre de origen desconocido (FUO por sus siglas en inglés) supone un gran desafío para el personal médico ya que su abordaje implica una gama diagnósticos diferenciales. Las principales causas son infecciosas, neoplásicas y reumatológicas, siendo las más frecuentes infecciosas. Dentro la artritis idiopática juvenil (JIA representa principal causa FUO reumatológico. Una variante infrecuente,...

UNLABELLED We studied the role of 111In-labeled immunoglobulin (111In-IgG) scintigraphy in different subgroups of patients with fever of unknown origin (FUO). METHODS During a 2-yr period (January 1992 through January 1994), the internal medicine wards of eight university hospitals in The Netherlands participated in this study. A total of 167 patients with FUO were prospectively included to p...

INTRODUCTION Fever of unknown origin (FUO) can be defined as a rectal temperature higher than 38.3 degrees C on several occasions over more than 3 weeks, the diagnosis of which remains uncertain after initial investigations. Identification of the causes and management of FUO in children is an important role of rural primary care physicians, and is guided by thorough history-taking and repeated ...

PURPOSE Fever is one of the most common symptoms in children. In previous studies, infectious disease was the most common cause of pediatric fever of unknown origin (FUO). The aim of this study is to investigate the etiology, clinical characteristics and prognosis of pediatric FUO in 21 century with more diagnostics available and to analyze the factors for certain disease categories. METHODS ...

Circulating and ex vivo production of interleukin (IL)-1beta, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, IL-6, and IL-1 receptor antagonist (ra) and the diagnostic utility of these cytokines were studied in 123 patients with fever of unknown origin (FUO). Diagnoses were infections, 28; neoplasms, 14; noninfectious inflammatory diseases (NIID), 32; miscellaneous diseases, 10; and none made, 39. IL-1beta...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to evaluate clinical value of dual-phase 18F-FDG SPECT with serum procalcitonin (PCT) in identifying cancers in patients with fever of unknown origin (FUO). METHODS PCT test and dual-phase 18F-FDG SPECT were sequentially performed on 50 consecutive patients with FUO. Two radiologists evaluated all 18F-FDG SPECT data independently. A consensus was reached...

Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) have been widely applied in the fields of marine hydrological exploration, resource area search, target detection, and military operations. In order to meet demand a complex ocean environment, USVs are frequently grouped together improve reliability mission accomplishment. this paper, fixed-time control strategy, combined with non-singular terminal sliding mode,...

BACKGROUND there are no previous systematic reviews of published pediatric case series describing the etiology of fever of unknown origin (FUO). The purpose of collecting these data is to determine the etiologies for children with FUO in both developing and developed countries. METHODS the database Ovid Medline R (1950 to August 2009 week 4) and Ovid Embase (1980 to 2010 week 2) were used to ...

Infections in the elderly, similar to other acute illnesses in this age group, may present in atypical, nonclassical fashions. Fever, the cardinal sign of infection, may be absent or blunted 20%–30% of the time. An absent or blunted fever response may in turn contribute to diagnostic delays in this population, which is already at risk for increased morbidity and mortality due to infection. On t...

although most parts of iran is free of malaria owing to appreciable struggle against this disease by the ministry of public health, in every case of fever of unknown origin (fuo) possibility of malaria should not be neglected. unjustified administration of antibiotics can delay the diagnosis because of diminishing effect in number of malaria parasites in peripheral blood. for this reason freque...