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Clinical analysis of 215 consecutive cases with fever of unknown origin: A cohort study.
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- Prolonged Fever of Unknown Origin With Suspicion of Adult-Onset Still's Disease: A Diagnostic Challenge.Journal of medical cases · 2026Article
- Evaluating fever of unknown origin definitions in a tertiary care setting: Implications for diagnostic criteria revision.World journal of experimental medicine · 2025Article
- Onco-mNGS facilitates rapid and precise identification of the etiology of fever of unknown origin: a single-centre prospective study in North China.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Diagnostic efficacy and necessity of 18F-FDG PET/CT in fever of unknown origin: insights from a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
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- Diagnostic value of F-18 FDG PET/CT in fever or inflammation of unknown origin in a large single-center retrospective study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Effect of adjusted cut-offs of interferon-γ release assays on diagnosis of tuberculosis in patients with fever of unknown origin.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2022Article
- Application of Machine Learning for the Prediction of Etiological Types of Classic Fever of Unknown Origin.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Retrospective analysis of 1,641 cases of classic fever of unknown origin.Annals of translational medicine · 2020Article
- Safety and efficacy of outpatient follow-up for referred patients with undiagnosed fever: A retrospective cohort study.Medicine · 2020Observational
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Abstract
Fever of unknown origin (FUO) is a frequently observed phenomenon in clinical practice. The present study was aimed to investigate potential causes of FUO, thereby improving clinical diagnosis of this disorder.In this retrospective study, clinical data were collected from 215 patients who were diagnosed with FUO between January 2009 and December 2010, and an 18 to 36 months follow-up visit was also performed for these patients.Among these FUO cases, the most common causes of the disease were infectious diseases (IDs) (42.3%), followed by connective tissue diseases (CTDs) (32.1%), miscellaneous (Mi) (10.7%) and neoplasm (N) (6.5%), while the causes for the other 18 cases (8.4%) were still unknown. The most common types of ID, CTD, and N were tuberculosis (16/91, 17.6%), adult onset Still disease (AOSD) (37/69, 53.6%) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (6/14, 42.9%), respectively.IDs still represent the most common causes of FUO. Regularly intermittent fever with urinary infections and irregularly intermittent fever with infective endocarditis may be regarded as some signs in clinical diagnosis of FUO.
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