title: [Fever of unknown origin in 74-year-old multimorbid man].
abstract: A 74-year-old multimorbid man was admitted with fever of unknown origin. Over time the fever ceased spontaneously. The patient developed signs of a right heart failure without evidence of a primarily cardiac pathogenesis and died of acute right heart failure. Miliary tuberculosis that had lead to pulmonary artery hypertension was diagnosed at autopsy.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Infektiologie, Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Moorenstr. 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Deutschland, andre.fuchs@med.uni-duesseldorf.de.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fuchs
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Elezkurtaj
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hortig
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ignatius
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Gross
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005335:Fever of Unknown Origin / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D014391:Tuberculosis, Miliary / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*