title: [Fever in rheumatic diseases--the spectrum of causes and diagnostic guidelines].
abstract: The review presents a systematic approach to the diagnostic problem of fever in combination with inflammatory rheumatic symptoms, specifically, in regards to: actual concepts of the pathogenesis of fever in various rheumatic diseases, fever as expression of disease activity, fever as a warning sign of complications in the course of disease and its treatment (infections, drug-induced fever, fever following drug withdrawal, secondary neoplasias), fever and inflammatory rheumatic symptoms as manifestation of non-rheumatic diseases. Based on the literature and information provided by pharmaceutical companies, a survey is given on the frequency of fever as a negative side-effect of the most commonly used drugs in rheumatology.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Rheumatologie, Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover.
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Langer
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zeidler
mesh_terms: D000210:Acute-Phase Reaction / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005335:Fever of Unknown Origin / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D012216:Rheumatic Diseases / Q000150:complications*
vernacular_title: Fieber bei rheumatischen Erkrankungen--Ursachenspektrum und diagnostische Leitlinien.