Differentials / Common Presentations Flashcards
1
Q
Fever (10)
A
- Infectious - viral/bacterial/fungal
- NON-infectious:
- ○ Drugs - ■ Overdoses that uncouple oxidative phosphorylation ● Salicylates ● Iron ■ Sympathomimetics / MDMA ■ MH ■ NMS ■ Serotonin syndrome
- ○ I x
- ○ Metabolic
- Leukemia / Lymphoma / Neuroblastoma
- Wilms tumor
- Juvenile RA
- **Kawasaki’s disease**
- Vasculitides
- Hyperthyroidism
- Environmental
- **bundling**
- Hot environment
- ○ Structural
- Central stroke/brain tumour
- CNS hemorrhages usually cause hyperpyrexia (>41.5 c)