Unexplained high fever in an elderly patient treated with clonidine, duloxetine, and atorvastatindoi:10.1016/j.clinthera.2009.12.008unexplained high feverclonidineelderly patientBackground: Drug-induced fever is a clinical diagnosis and should always be considered when the fever is constant and high ...
The signs and site of bacterial sepsis may be masked in elderly and immunocompromised patients. Clues to a septicaemic illness are hypotension, poor peripheral perfusion, confusion, marked tachycardia and tachypnoea in the absence of pneumonia. The most important communityacquired septicaemic ...
The resulting bacteremia resulted in the development of infection in the left ankle, which had preexisting disease and was thus vulnerable. This case provides further evidence for the mode of infection being bacteremia in cirrhotic patients. in patients with cirrhosis and fever, a high index of ...
The signs and site of bacterial sepsismay be masked in elderly andimmunocompromised patients. Clues to a septicaemic illness arehypotension, poor peripheral perfusion,confusion, marked tachycardiaand tachypnoea in the absenceof pneumonia. The most important communityacquiredsepticaemic illnesses to...
Both were elderly women who presented with evidence of systemic disease, including fever, arthralgia, myalgia, markedly elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate, anemia, leukbcytosis, hypoalbumihemia and renal insufficiency, in addition to progressive subacute aortic insufficiency. Histologic examination of ...
Septic arthritis is usually of hematogenous origin and is increasingly being reported in elderly patients, who often have underlying medical conditions such as diabetes or alcoholism. We report a 62-year-old patient with alcoholic Liver disease who presented with Escherichia coli bacteremia and septic...