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Authors: Lauren Stern,Vijay Lapsia
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VII_3_b
Pneumonia
Reproduced with permission from Halter JB, et al.
Hazzard’s Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
, 6th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2009.
VII_4_a
Fever of Unknown Origin
Definition
Temperature of 38.3 (100.9) or higher for > 3 weeks without an obvious source despite a thorough investigation (3 outpatient visits or 3 days in the hospital).
Differential Diagnosis
Infectious
Tuberculosis
Abdominal abscesses
Pelvic abscesses
Dental abscesses
Endocarditis
Osteomyelitis
Sinusitis
Cytomegalovirus
Epstein-Barr virus
Human immunodeficiency virus
Lyme disease
Prostatitis
Malignancy
Chronic leukemia
Lymphoma
Metastatic cancers
Renal cell carcinoma
Colon carcinoma
Hepatoma
Myelodysplastic syndromes
Pancreatic carcinoma
Sarcomas
Autoimmune conditions
Adult Still disease
Polymyalgia rheumatica
Temporal arteritis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatic fever
Inflammatory bowel disease
Reiter syndrome
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Vasculitides
Sarcoidosis
Other disorders
Drug-induced fever
Complications from cirrhosis
Factitious fever
Hepatitis (alcoholic, granulomatous, or lupoid)
Deep venous thrombosis
VII_4_b
Fever of Unknown Origin
Reproduced with permission from Longo DL, et al.
Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine
, 18th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2012.
RHEUMATOLOGY
VIII_1_a
Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Osteoarthritis