1994
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-199404000-00003
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Children with fever of unknown origin in Argentina

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“…[6] The 18 included studies published from 1968 to 2008 consisted of 8 studies (all more than a decade old) from only 3 developed countries (Germany, USA and Spain) and 10 studies from developing countries ( Table 1). [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] The number of children in each case series varied from 10 to 221 (median 89.5) for a total of 1638 children (770 males; 628 females; 240 unknown). Definitions of FUO varied widely.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…[6] The 18 included studies published from 1968 to 2008 consisted of 8 studies (all more than a decade old) from only 3 developed countries (Germany, USA and Spain) and 10 studies from developing countries ( Table 1). [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] The number of children in each case series varied from 10 to 221 (median 89.5) for a total of 1638 children (770 males; 628 females; 240 unknown). Definitions of FUO varied widely.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Chantada et al reported that 113 childhood FUO cases included 41 cases of infectious diseases, 15 of rheumatic diseases, 11 of neoplasms, and 22 of unknown cause. 3 As mentioned above, most studies concerning childhood FUO reported that infection was the most frequent cause of FUO. 4 In contrast, our present survey revealed that rheumatic diseases comprised the causes in 54%, which exceeded greatly 23% for infectious diseases.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…Los criterios de Petersdorf y Beeson en 1961 para FOD la categorizaron como la temperatura mayor a 38,3°C con una duración mínima de tres semanas sin diagnostico claro después de investigación clínica intensa (Ver Tabla 1). Se eligió ese límite de tiempo para eliminar las posibilidades de que el origen de los picos febriles se debieran a una infección viral autolimitada como la rinofaringitis o gastroenteritis para poder iniciar el estudio completo de las enfermedades con evolución más extensa como las enfermedad reumáticas o neoplásicas que puedan explicarlas 6,7 . Se excluye de esta condición a los pacientes con inmunocompromiso previo 8 .…”
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