Clinical investigations were performed on patients with pyrexia admitted into our hospital during past ten years. It was the criterion that cases with pyrexia of 38°C or more for more than 3 days were selected into the consideration. The results obtained were as follows.
1. Of 4970 cases admitted 333 had pyrexia, and were included into the investigation.
2. From the analysis of the cause of fever, infectious diseases exceeded half of all, reaching 192 cases (57.5%). Malignant diseases followed them, coming to 72 (21.5%). Other diseases counted 69 (21.0%).
3. Of 192 cases belong to infectious diseases, bacterial diseases were the most numerable in number.
4. Respiratory tract infection was the most prevalent among them, being followed by urinary tract infection.
5. There found some characteristics of clinical findings in each disease, which seemed to be useful for the differential diagnosis of pyreqic patients, However, since undistinguishability occurs not rarely in clinical pictures between infectious diseases and malignancies, it is considered to be the most important for the early differential diagnosis that we make every effort for the detection of causativeorganisms.
抄録全体を表示