
Fever of Unknown Origin
S2D: The Symptom to Diagnosis Podcast
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Pet Peeves in the Elderly
Elderly patients have trouble mounting high temperatures. 20 to 30 percent of elderly patients who had serious infections actually had either no fever or a very blunt response. Another study found that in patients over 80 who had a fever of 101 virtually all of them had a serious infection.
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