Tuesday 21 February 2012

Possible causes of pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO)

"IMAGINE"

INFECTIONS:-Bacterial:bacillary endocarditis and septicemia,collection of pus(subphrenic,intrahepatic,etc)
Viral:hep bprotozoal:malaria,amoeba,spirochaetes
specific: TB,typhoid..

MALIGNANCY
:-kidney nd liver,pancreas,lymphoma(hodgkin nd non hodgkin)..

AUTOIMMUNE DZS: SLE , PAN, rhumatoid arthritis..

GRANULOMAS: sarcoid,crohn dz...

IATROGENIC: Drug fever

NURSES,Doctors and all paramedical : factitious fever

ETC: remember that the cause is more often a rare manifestation of a common disease than a common manifestation of rare disease

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