Fever of Unknown Orgin Registry in Internal Medicine Unit and Infectious Disease Units

Fadoi Foundation, Italy100 enrolled

Overview

This registry has the aim to collect epidemiological and clinical data of classical FUO cases in Italian Internal medicine Dept. and in Italian Infection diseases Dept.

In particular this registry intends to record clinical data observed, diagnostic methods used and the clinical evolution of classical FUO cases

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

100

Conditions

Fever of Unknown Origin

Interventions

not aplicable since it is a RegistryOTHER

not aplicable since it is a registry

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * • fever (temperature \> 38.3° C) found in several occasions of a duration exceeding 3, unable to make a diagnosis after a period of 3 days of hospitalization or after 3 out-patients visits in Internal Medicine Dept. or Infection Diseases Dept. * signed informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * • immunocompromised patients * patients in treatment with steroidi (prednisone \> 0,5 mg/Kg/die per \> 4 weeks), anti-TNF, ciclofosfamide, tacrolimus, everolimus, sirolimus, azatioprina, ciclosporina, micofenolato, metotrexate * neutropenic patients with less than 500 neutrofili/µL * HIV positive patients * nocosomial fever.

Locations (1)

ASUI di Trieste

Trieste, Italy

RECRUITING

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

To describe FUO cases collected

To describe clinical evolution of classical FUO cases recording clinical data observed, diagnostic methods used.

Time frame: 6 moths

Central Contacts

ELISA ZAGARRI'

CONTACT

+39 0248005140 elisa.zagarri@fadoi.org

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