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Harrison's Internal Medicine > Chapter 19. Fever of Unknown Origin
Definition and Classification
Fever of unknown origin (FUO) was defined ... Beeson in
1961 as (1) temperatures of >38.3°C (>101°F) on several occasions; (2) a duration
of fever of >3 weeks; and (3) failure to reach a diagnosis despite 1 week of
inpatient investigation. ... study in the hospital. The
newer definition is broader, stipulating three outpatient visits or 3 days in the
hospital without elucidation of a cause or 1 week of "intelligent and invasive"...
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Chapter 019. Fever of Unknown Origin (Part 4) ppt
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... cultures,
including cultures for mycobacteria, fungi, and CMV, are indicated. In the setting
of recurrent fevers with lymphocytic meningitis (Mollaret's meningitis),
cerebrospinal fluid can ... be key findings in the history (e.g., travel), localizing signs, or key
symptoms. Certain specific diagnostic maneuvers become critical in dealing with
prolonged fevers. If factitious fever is ... the laboratory as soon as possible and retained for future
examination for rising antibody titers.
Figure 19-1
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Chapter 019. Fever of Unknown Origin (Part 5) doc
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... at sites of vasculitis. Where available, FDG
PET scanning should therefore be chosen over
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Ga scanning in the diagnosis of
FUO.
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In any FUO ... false-negative findings are common. Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 (FDG) PET
scanning appears to be superior to other forms of nuclear imaging. The FDG used
in PET scans accumulates in tumors and at sites of inflammation ... superior to CT in
demonstrating intraabdominal abscesses and aortic dissection, but the relative
utility of MRI and CT in the diagnosis of FUO is unknown. At present, abdominal
CT with contrast...
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Chapter 019. Fever of Unknown Origin (Part 6) pdf
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... patients, but drug fever and lymphoma remain important
considerations. Treatment of HIV-associated FUO depends on many factors and is
discussed in Chap. 182.
Fever of Unknown Origin: Treatment ... Colchicine is highly effective in preventing attacks
of familial Mediterranean fever but is of little use once an attack is well under
way. The ability of glucocorticoids and NSAIDs to mask fever ...
HIV-Associated FUO
HIV infection alone may be a cause of fever. Infection due to
Mycobacterium avium or Mycobacterium intracellulare, tuberculosis,
toxoplasmosis, CMV infection, Pneumocystis infection,...
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Chapter 019. Fever of Unknown Origin (Part 7) docx
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... fe
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Rovers CP et al: Clinical value of FDG PET in patients with fever
of unknown origin and patients suspected of focal infection or inflammation. ... Analysis of 100 patients with acute fever or fever of unknown origin.
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Chapter 019. Fever of Unknown Origin (Part 2) pptx
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... 019. Fever of Unknown Origin
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Infections, especially extrapulmonary tuberculosis, remain the leading
diagnosable cause of FUO. Prolonged mononucleosis syndromes caused by
Epstein-Barr ... nodules involving the urinary
tract, may cause FUO and is often fatal if untreated. It is associated with
intracellular bacterial infection, is seen most often in patients with defects of
intracellular ... drug-resistant strain) continues to be a cause, particularly of
asynchronous FUO. A related protozoan infection, babesiosis, may cause FUO
and is increasing in geographic distribution and in incidence,...
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Chapter 019. Fever of Unknown Origin (Part 3) ppt
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...
(Exaggerated circadian rhythm)
intentional release of infectious agents, many of which cause illnesses presenting
with prolonged fever, underscores the need for obtaining an insightful
environmental, ... occupational, and professional history, with early notification of
public health authorities in cases of suspicious etiology (Chap. 214).
Table 19-3 Causes of FUO in Adults in the United States
Infections ...
Typhoid fever
Vibriosis
Yersinia infection
Mycobacterial infections
M. avium/M. intracellulare infections
Other atypical mycobacterial infections
Tuberculosis
Other bacterial infections...
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Symptoms of Unknown Origin A Medical Odyssey pptx
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... huge ice machine capable of producing
several large bags of crushed ice in a few minutes. As soon as any
field unit called in announcing the transport of someone suspected
of heat injury, the ... of support.
Many of the patients were seen in the teaching clinic at Saint
omas Hospital in Nashville. I am indebted to the staff and nurses
in the clinic, particularly Joy Smith.
I am indebted ... Unlikely Lesson 11
lin preparations of the day—protamine zinc insulin, Lente, semi
Lente, and NPH insulins—adding injections of regular insulin just
before meals and at bedtime. All these efforts...
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Textile and Apparel Barriers and Rules of Origin in a Post-ATC World
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... Journal of World Trade 34 (1): 141–166.
Estevadeordal, Antoni and Kati Suominen. 2006. “Mapping and Measuring Rules of Origin
Around the World.” In The Origin of Goods: Rules of Origin in Regional ... about one quarter of the welfare gain at a cost of 13.3
percent of the output loss, while elimination of preferential rules of origin
accounts for the remaining 23.3 percent of increased welfare ... sectors in non-WTO
countries that were subject to binding quotas in 2005. Using a quota fill rate of 90 percent to
indicate a binding quota, exports were restrained in 10 sectors from China, 10...
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origin of coherent phonons in bi2te3 excited by ultrafast laser pulses
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... the thinner films still have crystalline structure, as
shown in the Raman scattering data in Fig. 4(c). The widths
of the Raman peaks in the thinner films are slightly wider,
indicating longer interatomic ... force.
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axis perpendicular to the sample surface, the ponderomotive
force and the thermal force that originate from the electric
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origin of coherent phonons in bi2te3 excited by ultrafast laser pulses
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... the thinner films still have crystalline structure, as
shown in the Raman scattering data in Fig. 4(c). The widths
of the Raman peaks in the thinner films are slightly wider,
indicating longer interatomic ... address: Department of Mechanical Engineering,
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712.
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These two authors contributed equally to this work.
‡
Corresponding author: xxu@purdue.edu
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Báo cáo hóa học: "Origin of Capacity Fading in Nano-Sized Co3O4 Electrodes: Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Study" pdf
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... electrode/electrolyte interface. Indeed, the
increase in internal defects and isolated active regions which
hardly react with the electrolyte can increase the charge
transfer resistance during continued cycling in ... examine the origin of
the drastic capacity fading suffered in the nano-sized
Co
3
O
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anode system. In addition, the intimate association
of cycling performance with the impedance elements in
equivalent ... rapidly
increased in the following cycles. This behavior is indicative
of the stabilization of SEI layers achieved during the initial
50 cycles, which does not support the sudden decay of
capacity...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article A Method for Source-Microphone Range Estimation in Reverberant Environments Using Arrays of Unknown Geometry" ppt
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... in
Reverberant Environments Using Arrays of Unknown
Geometry
Denis McCarthy and Frank Boland
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin, ... recordings were split into segments of 8192 sam-
ples and windowed using a Hamming window. The segment
overlap was 50%. In the case of the speech recordings, the sig-
nals were separated into ... generated using an
acoustic modeling software package [13]. A ray tracing al-
gorithm was used to determine first 20 milliseconds of the
impulse response after and including the arrival of the direct-
Table...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Blind Identification of FIR Channels in the Presence of Unknown Noise" docx
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... Nanjing
University of Science and Technology and
was awarded the degree of Bachelor of En-
gineering (w ith distinction) in June 2001.
She continued her studies in the same insti-
tute and obtained ... Master of Engineering
degree in July 2004. She then attended Mc-
Master University pursuing further studies
in the Department of Electrical Engineering
and completed the degree of Master of Applied ... function of h.
We overcome this difficulty by applying the result of channel
matrix transformation [20] as summarized in the beginning
of this section. By permuting the rows of the channel matrix
H using...
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