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... 019. Fever of Unknown Origin (Part 1) Harrison's Internal Medicine > Chapter 19. Fever of Unknown Origin Definition and Classification Fever of unknown origin (FUO) was defined ... Beeson in 1961 as (1) temperatures of >38.3°C (>101°F) on several occasions; (2) a duration of fever of >3 weeks; and (3) failure to reach a diagnosis despite 1 week of inpatient investigation. ... study in the hospital. The newer definition is broader, stipulating three outpatient visits or 3 days in the hospital without elucidation of a cause or 1 week of "intelligent and invasive"...

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... cultures, including cultures for mycobacteria, fungi, and CMV, are indicated. In the setting of recurrent fevers with lymphocytic meningitis (Mollaret's meningitis), cerebrospinal fluid can ... be key findings in the history (e.g., travel), localizing signs, or key symptoms. Certain specific diagnostic maneuvers become critical in dealing with prolonged fevers. If factitious fever is ... the laboratory as soon as possible and retained for future examination for rising antibody titers. Figure 19-1 Chapter 019. Fever of Unknown Origin (Part 4) Specialized Diagnostic Studies...

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... at sites of vasculitis. Where available, FDG PET scanning should therefore be chosen over 67 Ga scanning in the diagnosis of FUO. Chapter 019. Fever of Unknown Origin (Part 5) In any FUO ... false-negative findings are common. Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 (FDG) PET scanning appears to be superior to other forms of nuclear imaging. The FDG used in PET scans accumulates in tumors and at sites of inflammation ... superior to CT in demonstrating intraabdominal abscesses and aortic dissection, but the relative utility of MRI and CT in the diagnosis of FUO is unknown. At present, abdominal CT with contrast...

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... patients, but drug fever and lymphoma remain important considerations. Treatment of HIV-associated FUO depends on many factors and is discussed in Chap. 182. Fever of Unknown Origin: Treatment ... Colchicine is highly effective in preventing attacks of familial Mediterranean fever but is of little use once an attack is well under way. The ability of glucocorticoids and NSAIDs to mask fever ... HIV-Associated FUO HIV infection alone may be a cause of fever. Infection due to Mycobacterium avium or Mycobacterium intracellulare, tuberculosis, toxoplasmosis, CMV infection, Pneumocystis infection,...

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... fe ver of unknown origin. Clin Res 26:558A, 1978 Bleeker- Rovers CP et al: Clinical value of FDG PET in patients with fever of unknown origin and patients suspected of focal infection or inflammation. ... Analysis of 100 patients with acute fever or fever of unknown origin. Clin Infect Dis 23:298, 1996 [PMID: 8842267] Kazanjian P H: Fever of unknown origin: Review of 86 patients treated in community ... DC, Vanneste LJ: Fever of unknown origin in elderly patients. J Am Geriatr Soc 41:1187, 1993 [PMID: 8227892] ——— , Vanneste LJ: Fever of unknown origin in the 1980s. Arch Intern ...

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... 019. Fever of Unknown Origin (Part 2) Infections, especially extrapulmonary tuberculosis, remain the leading diagnosable cause of FUO. Prolonged mononucleosis syndromes caused by Epstein-Barr ... nodules involving the urinary tract, may cause FUO and is often fatal if untreated. It is associated with intracellular bacterial infection, is seen most often in patients with defects of intracellular ... drug-resistant strain) continues to be a cause, particularly of asynchronous FUO. A related protozoan infection, babesiosis, may cause FUO and is increasing in geographic distribution and in incidence,...

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... (Exaggerated circadian rhythm) intentional release of infectious agents, many of which cause illnesses presenting with prolonged fever, underscores the need for obtaining an insightful environmental, ... occupational, and professional history, with early notification of public health authorities in cases of suspicious etiology (Chap. 214). Table 19-3 Causes of FUO in Adults in the United States Infections ... Typhoid fever Vibriosis Yersinia infection Mycobacterial infections M. avium/M. intracellulare infections Other atypical mycobacterial infections Tuberculosis Other bacterial infections...

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... huge ice machine capable of producing several large bags of crushed ice in a few minutes. As soon as any field unit called in announcing the transport of someone suspected of heat injury, the ... of support. Many of the patients were seen in the teaching clinic at Saint omas Hospital in Nashville. I am indebted to the staff and nurses in the clinic, particularly Joy Smith. I am indebted ... Unlikely Lesson 11 lin preparations of the day—protamine zinc insulin, Lente, semi Lente, and NPH insulins—adding injections of regular insulin just before meals and at bedtime. All these efforts...

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... Journal of World Trade 34 (1): 141–166. Estevadeordal, Antoni and Kati Suominen. 2006. “Mapping and Measuring Rules of Origin Around the World.” In The Origin of Goods: Rules of Origin in Regional ... about one quarter of the welfare gain at a cost of 13.3 percent of the output loss, while elimination of preferential rules of origin accounts for the remaining 23.3 percent of increased welfare ... sectors in non-WTO countries that were subject to binding quotas in 2005. Using a quota fill rate of 90 percent to indicate a binding quota, exports were restrained in 10 sectors from China, 10...

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... the thinner films still have crystalline structure, as shown in the Raman scattering data in Fig. 4(c). The widths of the Raman peaks in the thinner films are slightly wider, indicating longer interatomic ... force. 19 Since our sample has its c axis perpendicular to the sample surface, the ponderomotive force and the thermal force that originate from the electric 064307-2 ORIGIN OF COHERENT PHONONS IN Bi 2 Te 3 ... address: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712. † These two authors contributed equally to this work. ‡ Corresponding author: xxu@purdue.edu 1 R....

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... the thinner films still have crystalline structure, as shown in the Raman scattering data in Fig. 4(c). The widths of the Raman peaks in the thinner films are slightly wider, indicating longer interatomic ... address: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712. † These two authors contributed equally to this work. ‡ Corresponding author: xxu@purdue.edu 1 R. ... T e,max 064307-3 ORIGIN OF COHERENT PHONONS IN Bi 2 Te 3 PHYSICAL REVIEW B 88, 064307 (2013) theverythinBi 2 Te 3 films can be wider, for example, ∼0.25 eV in 5-nm-thick films compared with 0.15 eV in bulk, 33 but still...

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... electrode/electrolyte interface. Indeed, the increase in internal defects and isolated active regions which hardly react with the electrolyte can increase the charge transfer resistance during continued cycling in ... examine the origin of the drastic capacity fading suffered in the nano-sized Co 3 O 4 anode system. In addition, the intimate association of cycling performance with the impedance elements in equivalent ... rapidly increased in the following cycles. This behavior is indicative of the stabilization of SEI layers achieved during the initial 50 cycles, which does not support the sudden decay of capacity...

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... in Reverberant Environments Using Arrays of Unknown Geometry Denis McCarthy and Frank Boland Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin, ... recordings were split into segments of 8192 sam- ples and windowed using a Hamming window. The segment overlap was 50%. In the case of the speech recordings, the sig- nals were separated into ... generated using an acoustic modeling software package [13]. A ray tracing al- gorithm was used to determine first 20 milliseconds of the impulse response after and including the arrival of the direct- Table...

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... Nanjing University of Science and Technology and was awarded the degree of Bachelor of En- gineering (w ith distinction) in June 2001. She continued her studies in the same insti- tute and obtained ... Master of Engineering degree in July 2004. She then attended Mc- Master University pursuing further studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering and completed the degree of Master of Applied ... function of h. We overcome this difficulty by applying the result of channel matrix transformation [20] as summarized in the beginning of this section. By permuting the rows of the channel matrix H using...

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