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Fever of Unknown Origin, a Prospective Multicenter Study of Patients with FUO in Hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in 2003
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O Eilami   , MR Salari Shahrebabaki , SD Shoaei , L Gachkar |
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Introduction & Objective: Fever of Unknown Origin (FUO) has
different etiologies due to new diagnostic procedures and
geographic areas. This study aimed to evaluate the patients with
FUO in hospitals of Shahid Beheshti Universty of Medical
Sciences.
Materials & Methods: In this survey case series admitted patients
with impression of FUO in infectious diseases wards of Shahid
Beheshti University of Medical Sciences of Iran in 2003 were
studied. 52 patients had fever over 38.3 ºC for 3 weeks and their
disease was not diagnosed after 3 visits or 3 days of admission.
Results: 54% of the patients were male and 46% were female.
85% of the cases were under the age of 60 years. The most
common etiology of FUO was Infectious diseases (36.5%), and
neoplasm (21%), miscellaneous (17.5%), undiagnosed (13.5%),
and connective tissue diseases (11.5%) respectively.Tuberculosis
(7.7%), Intra-abdominal abscess (7.7%), lymphoma (11.5%), drug
fever (5.8%) and autoimmune hepatitis (3.8%) were the most
common infectious diseases.
Conclusion: Results of this study are comparable with those in
other developing countries and infectious disease is the most
common causative agent of FUO. |
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| Keywords: Fever of Unknown Origin (FUO), Tuberclosis, Intra-abdominal Abscess, Neoplasm, Lymphoma, Drug fever, Connective tissue diseases, Autoimmune hepatitis |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2015/06/15 | Accepted: 2015/06/15 | Published: 2015/06/15
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