A Study Related to Undiagnosed Fever in a Known Population: An Cross-Sectional Study

ABSTRACT

Background: Fever remains the most enigmatic clinicalsymptom to treat. The differential diagnosis of Fever ofunknown origin is the most wide-ranging in medicine. Hence;the present study was conducted for assessing the patientswith Undiagnosed Fever in a Known Population.Materials & Methods: A total of 85 patients with undiagnosedfever were enrolled in the present study. Thorough clinicalexamination of all the patients was carried out. Blood sampleswere obtained from all the patients and routine investigationswere carried out. Patients remaining undiagnosed after thatwere referred to higher centers. All the results were recorded inMicrosoft excel sheet and were analysed by SPSS software.Chi- square test was used to assess the level of significance.Results: In all these patients, final diagnosis was establishedbased on haematological and clinical examination. Finaldiagnosis was found to be infectious in 49.41 percent of thecases, while it was found to be inflammatory (non-infectious) in16.47 percent of the cases. Haematological pathology wasfound to be present in 12.94 percent of the cases.Undiagnosed cases were found to be 5 in number.Conclusion: Undiagnosed fever might occur in such variablepathologies as infections, malignancy and drug effect and dueto environmental toxicity. Even after intensive search, theetiology of a sizeable proportion of fevers remains unclear.