The Causes of Acute Fever Requiring Hospitalization in Geriatric Patients : Comparison of Infectious and NoninfectiousEtiology

المؤلفون المشاركون

Tufan, Fatih
Cagatay, A. Atahan
Elcioglu, Omer Celal
Alpay, Nilufer
Taranoglu, Ozer
Hindilerden, Fehmi
Aydin, Sibel
Karadeniz, Asli
Gokturk, Suut

المصدر

Journal of Aging Research

العدد

المجلد 2010، العدد 2010 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2010)، ص ص. 1-6، 6ص.

الناشر

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

تاريخ النشر

2010-08-12

دولة النشر

مصر

عدد الصفحات

6

التخصصات الرئيسية

العلوم الطبية والصيدلة والعلوم الصحية

الملخص EN

Introduction.

Infectious diseases may present with atypical presentations in the geriatric patients.

While fever is an important finding of infections, it may also be a sign of noninfectious etiology.

Methods.

Geriatric patients who were hospitalized for acute fever in our infectious diseases unit were included.

Acute fever was defined as presentation within the first week of fever above 37.3∘C.

Results.

185 patients were included (82 males and 103 females).

Mean age was 69.7±7.5 years.

The cause of fever was an infectious disease in 135 and noninfectious disease in 32 and unknown in 18 of the patients.

The most common infectious etiologies were respiratory tract infections (n=46), urinary tract infections (n=26), and skin and soft tissue infections (n=23).

Noninfectious causes of fever were rheumatic diseases (n=8), solid tumors (n=7), hematological diseases (n=10), and vasculitis (n=7).

A noninfectious cause of fever was present in one patient with no underlying diseases and in 31 of 130 patients with underlying diseases.

Conclusion.

Geriatric patients with no underlying diseases generally had infectious causes of fever while noninfectious causes were responsible from fever in an important proportion of patients with underlying diseases.

نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)

Cagatay, A. Atahan& Tufan, Fatih& Hindilerden, Fehmi& Aydin, Sibel& Elcioglu, Omer Celal& Karadeniz, Asli…[et al.]. 2010. The Causes of Acute Fever Requiring Hospitalization in Geriatric Patients : Comparison of Infectious and NoninfectiousEtiology. Journal of Aging Research،Vol. 2010, no. 2010, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-467528

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)

Cagatay, A. Atahan…[et al.]. The Causes of Acute Fever Requiring Hospitalization in Geriatric Patients : Comparison of Infectious and NoninfectiousEtiology. Journal of Aging Research No. 2010 (2010), pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-467528

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)

Cagatay, A. Atahan& Tufan, Fatih& Hindilerden, Fehmi& Aydin, Sibel& Elcioglu, Omer Celal& Karadeniz, Asli…[et al.]. The Causes of Acute Fever Requiring Hospitalization in Geriatric Patients : Comparison of Infectious and NoninfectiousEtiology. Journal of Aging Research. 2010. Vol. 2010, no. 2010, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-467528

نوع البيانات

مقالات

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

الملاحظات

Includes bibliographical references

رقم السجل

BIM-467528