Book chapter
Prolonged, Recurrent, and Periodic Fever Syndromes
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, pp 117-127
2012
Abstract
Diagnosing and managing patients with prolonged, recurring, or periodic fever requires extensive review of symptoms and systems to establish onset and cardinal feature(s) of illness, to define the exact fever pattern, and to understand the context of illness within the patient’s family and past medical history. Temperature is interpreted with the use of norms for age and sex (Figure 15-1).1 At 18 months of age, mean rectal temperature for males is 37.7°C with a standard deviation (SD) of 0.38°C; thus, a rectal temperature of 38.5°C is <2 SD above the mean. [1st paragraph]
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Details
- Title
- Prolonged, Recurrent, and Periodic Fever Syndromes
- Creators
- Sarah S. Long - Drexel UniversityKathryn M. Edwards - Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
- Publication Details
- Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, pp 117-127
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Edition
- 4th
- Number of pages
- 11
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Pediatrics
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84966938225
- Other Identifier
- 991019335511804721