Best Practice for Prolonged Fever in Primary Care Setting: Close Follow-Up or Empiric Antibiotic Therapy? / 가정의학회지
Korean Journal of Family Medicine
;
: 318-321, 2018.
Artigo
em Inglês
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-717103
ABSTRACT
The management of prolonged fever in low-socioeconomic-status areas by primary care providers such as general practitioners is challenging. Given the endemic nature of many infectious diseases, physicians typically start empirical antibiotic therapy following a limited diagnostic workup including serologic examinations. Herein, we report the case of a young male patient with prolonged fever and arthralgia initially diagnosed with and treated for brucellosis but with a confirmed diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus on follow-up. This unique case shows that close follow-up is the best practice for managing prolonged fever in cases with non-specific laboratory findings.
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Índice:
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Assunto principal:
Atenção Primária à Saúde
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Brucelose
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Doenças Transmissíveis
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Seguimentos
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Guias de Prática Clínica como Assunto
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Artralgia
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Diagnóstico
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Clínicos Gerais
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Febre
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Lúpus Eritematoso Sistêmico
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo diagnóstico
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Guia de Prática Clínica
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Estudo observacional
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Estudo prognóstico
Limite:
Humanos
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Masculino
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Korean Journal of Family Medicine
Ano de publicação:
2018
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
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