Fever of unknown origin in the elderly: nine years experience in China.
This is a retrospective study of older patients admitted to the First and Second Affiliated Hospitals of Wenzhou Medical College, China, with a diagnosis of fever of unknown origin. The study took place from January 1998 to December 2006 among 102 patients who fulfilled the criteria. Infections were responsible for 50 cases (49.1%), followed by no diagnosis in 27 (26.5%), miscellaneous in nine (8.8%), neoplasms in eight (7.8%) and connective tissue disease in another eight (7.8%). Mycobacterium TB was the most frequent type of infection diagnosed.
Zheng
Minghua
M
Department of Infection, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325000, China.
Lin
Hailong
H
Luo
Sheng
S
Xu
Lihua
L
Zeng
Yanjun
Y
Chen
Yongping
Y
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D005335:Fever of Unknown Origin / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies