Pediatric Fever of Unknown Origin.
@article{Antoon2015PediatricFO, title={Pediatric Fever of Unknown Origin.}, author={James W. Antoon and Nicholas M. Potisek and Jacob A. Lohr}, journal={Pediatrics in review}, year={2015}, volume={36 9}, pages={ 380-90; quiz 391 } }
1. James W. Antoon, MD, PhD*
2. Nicholas M. Potisek, MD†
3. Jacob A. Lohr, MD††
1. * [] Key MethodDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2. †Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
3. ††Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC.
Pediatricians often confuse fever without a source and fever of unknown origin.
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Etiology and Resource Use of Fever of Unknown Origin in Hospitalized Children.
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The categorical distribution of diagnoses for pediatric FUO has marginally shifted compared to previously reported pediatric studies, and several clinical factors were statistically and significantly different between etiologic categories.
Fever of unknown origin: a retrospective review of pediatric patients from an urban, tertiary care center in Washington, DC
- MedicineWorld Journal of Pediatrics
- 2019
The cost associated with hospitalization for FUO may cause clinicians to reconsider inpatient admission for diagnostic work-up of fever, particularly given the evidence demonstrating that many patients are discharged without a diagnosis.
Etiology and clinical characteristics of fever of unknown origin in children: a 15-year experience in a single center
- MedicineKorean journal of pediatrics
- 2017
Investigation of 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 finds undiagnosed portion of F UO have now increased due to development of diagnostic techniques for infectious diseases.
Overview of fever of unknown origin in adult and paediatric patients.
- MedicineClinical and experimental rheumatology
- 2018
This review outlines a case report of an elderly Italian male patient with high fever and migrating arthralgia who underwent many procedures and treatments before a final diagnosis of Adult-onset Still's disease was achieved, highlighting the difficulties in diagnosing certain causes of FUO.
A study of etiology of fever of unknown origin in children aged 2 months to 18 years
- MedicineInternational Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics
- 2021
Enteric fever and tuberculosis were the leading etiologies from infective subgroup of FUO and ALL was the commonest cause from malignancies sub group, found in younger age group as compared to connective tissue diseases.
A Case Report on Fever of Unknown Origin in a School Going Child– An Uncommon Answer in a Common Question
- MedicineMedical Journal of Shree Birendra Hospital
- 2018
A case of FUO is presented in a child which was investigated thoroughly and managed on the line of enteric fever, however, the patient remained febrile and bone marrow culture grew a very uncommon organism- Escherichia coli.
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- 2019
The Culture positive UTI was most common in female and the most common organism were gram negative with good response to empirical antibiotics aminoglycosides, which means in a febrile infant even without any associated symptom exclusion of UTI is recommended.
An 8-Year-Old Male With Fever of Unknown Origin
- MedicineClinical pediatrics
- 2018
The patient was referred for further evaluation of his prolonged fevers and cough despite treatment with antimicrobial therapy, and azithromycin was added to cover for atypical pneumonia.
UNCOMMON PRESENTATION OF A COMMON DISEASE AS PUO
- Medicine
- 2020
A case of pyrexia of unknown origin in a 35 yr old male presented to us with fever since 2 months which was associated with chills and rigor and his laboratory findings found pancytopenia.
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