Methods Data on consecutive adult patients presenting to the emergency department with pyrexial illness during the study period, November 2009 to October 2010, were analysed. The main outcome measure ...

Precipitants include withdrawal of systemic or potent topical corticosteroids and infections. The patient is pyrexial, with red, painful, inflamed skin studded with monomorphic, sterile pustules, ...

The child was pyrexial but otherwise well. CT and MRI revealed the lesion to be a nasal dermoid with a meningeal communication. There was associated dural enhancement (fig 2). Pneumococcus was ...

He had insignificant medical history, never used intravenous drugs and was a teetotaller. He was pyrexial and tachycardic, with normal abdominal examination. Inflammatory markers were raised with ...

1 Department of Neurology, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Glasgow, UK 2 Department of Virology, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, UK A 59 year old right handed lorry ...

GAS sensitive to penicillin, clindamycin and linezolid was cultured from eye and ear swabs. Despite aggressive treatment, on day 3 he remained pyrexial, the C reactive proyein (CRP) peaking at 374 g/l ...

On admission to a district hospital she was pyrexial and unresponsive. CT was normal, she had a lymphocytic pleocytosis of 500, protein of 1 g, a low glucose ratio and type 2 oligoclonal bands, CSF ...

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Clinical deterioration occurred over 10 days, despite repeated joint washouts and alternative antibiotic therapy. He continued to be pyrexial with worsening tachycardia and tachypnoea. Blood tests ...

Some areas of skin appeared scalded. She was pyrexial. Treatment was initiated for eczema herpeticum with superadded bacterial infection with intravenous antibiotics and aciclovir. Treatment was ...

In our study, none of the infants was hypothermic (<35.90°C) and only a few (n = 3) were pyrexial (>38.0°C) Thus we cannot draw conclusions about the concordance of the two devices in these conditions ...

He originally presented at the age of 20 with malaise and abdominal distention. On examination he was found to be pyrexial with a right sided pleural effusion, underlying consolidation, and ascites.