| Prolonged Fever in Infants and Children. |
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Jeh Hoon Shin, Jin Woo Han, Sang Yoon Lee, Woo Gill Lee, Soo Jee Moon, Chong Moo Park |
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Department of Pediatrics, Hanyang University College of Medicine Seoul, Korea |
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신재훈, 한진우, 이상윤, 이우길, 문수지, 박종무 |
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한양대학교 의과대학 소아과학교실 |
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| Abstract |
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Although fever is one of the most common symptoms seen in the pediatric field, we often
have met problems in diagnosis and treatment because the etiology is sometimes obscure.
We clinically reviewed one hundred patients admitted to Hanyang University Hospital from
Sept. 1978 to Dec. 1981 with the chief problem of fever over 38.5°C for longer than two weeks.
Final diagnosis of patients with prolonged fever were as follows: 81 cases(81 %) were infectious disease,
9 cases(9%) collagen disease, 5 cases(5%) undiagnosed. Infection was the most common etiology of
prolonged fever in all age groups.
The diagnosis was done by means of careful history taking, physical examination and a various tests.
Comparing the routine tests and CRP & ESR, we found the CRP & ESR tests were more
reliable than the routine test(CBC, urinalysis, X-ray) in the diagnosis of patients with prolonged fever.
The CRP & ESR tests were positive in all patients. Therefore it is suggested the CRP &ESR tests must
be done in all patients with prolonged fever.
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| Key Words:
CRP, ESR, Prolonged fever. |
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