[Management of fever without source in children].
BACKGROUND
Infectious diseases are the most common cause of fever in children. Viral and bacterial infections of respiratory, gastrointestinal, central nervous system and urinary tract dominates. In the group of children with chronic fever in some cases inflammatory bowel diseases, immunodeficiency syndromes and infections of rare pathogens are diagnosed.


OBJECTIVE
Authors analysed retrospectively 10 children with chronic fever treated in the II Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition, Medical University of Wrocław.


RESULTS
In those children we diagnosed Crohn's disease (1 case), cat scratch disease (1 case), systemic fungial infection in the child with short bowel syndrome (1 case), severe immunodeficiency syndrome (3 cases), intraperitoneal abscess in a child with Crohn's disease (1 case), severe toxic diarrhoea in the course of treatment with cyclosporin (1 case), Yersinia enterocolitica infection (2 cases).


CONCLUSIONS
In the diagnostics of the prolonged fever in children various conditions and diseases ought to be considered.
Iwańczak
Barbara
B
II Katedra i Klinika Pediatrii i Gastroenterologii i Zywienia Akademii Medycznej we Wrocławiu. barbara@iwanczak.com
Pytrus
Tomasz
T
Stawarski
Andrzej
A
Mowszet
Krystyna
K
Iwańczak
Franciszek
F
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D005335:Fever of Unknown Origin / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors