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| A Clinical Study on 55 patients with Fever of Undetermined Origin |
| Myoung-Don Oh, Kyong Ran Peck, Young Wook Song, Kang Won Choe |
| Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea |
Vol.25 Num.1 (p1~8)
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We studied underlying diseases of 55 patients with prolonged fever of undetermined etiology (FUO), who were admitted to the Seoul National University Hospital from 1987 to 1992. The criteria of FUO was adopted from Petersdorf. The results were as follows:
1) Final diagnosis were grouped into 6 categories; infectious disease were 24%, conncetive tissue disease 20%, neoplasm 16%, granulomatous disease 4%, others 5%, unknown 31%. The most common etiology of FUO were tuberculosis.
2) For therapeutic trial, anti-tuberculosis drugs wre given to 14 patients (25%), of whom three became afebrile. But one of them turned out to have cryptococcal meningitis.
3) Of the 17 patient with unknown etiology, eight were lost to follow, fever subsided without any treatment in 6, one expired.
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