Although there are more than 200 diseases in the differential diagnosis, most cases in adults are limited to several dozen possible causes. . None had symptoms of urinary tract infection, thrombophlebitis, or Clostridioidesdifficile diarrhea. Although prolonged and saddleback fever have been reported in dengue fever, there are no specific studies on their significance in dengue. It's usually a sign of infection. Search dates: November 28, 2011; February 8, 2012; and April 18, 2014. Several diagnostic algorithms have been suggested for FUO, but few are supported by evidence from prospective studies.17 Region-specific serologic tests, more advanced radiologic studies, and more invasive diagnostic procedures can be guided by potentially diagnostic clues. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002412. At the time of writing, there were no supporting studies on the association between elevated levels of IL-21, IL-22, and SDF-1 and COVID-19. and transmitted securely. Treatment of fever in adults usually involves ibuprofen, acetaminophen, or aspirin. sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal A fever is a body temperature of 100.4 F or greater. Recommendations of the Scientific Working Group on Dengue. aInvestigations were repeated at the point at which they satisfied criteria for prolonged or saddleback fever. The .gov means its official. 2021 Jan-Feb;50(1):28-32. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2020.10.013. Repeat laboratory investigations and CXR were done for those with prolonged or saddleback fever and collected. Differences Between Prolonged Fever and Nonprolonged Fever Groups. National Library of Medicine [The] lower IP-10 level [with saddleback fever] is consistent with the finding that saddleback fever cases tend to have better clinical outcomes than prolonged fever cases, they noted. Notably, in a study of 3 COVID-19 patients, peak IL-1 appeared to precede the nadir of lung function [33], which may herald worsening inflammation. Other illnesses and inflammation. Like RA, rheumatic fever affects the joints. Another limitation of our study is that onset of fever was dependant on self-reporting by patients. Unmasking latent extrapulmonary tuberculosis with newly diagnosed HIV-1 infection in a COVID-19 patient with prolonged fever. A larger cohort might help to improve our understanding of these patients. This study demonstrates that prolonged fever may be associated with various warning signs and more severe forms of dengue (SD, DSS, DHF), while saddleback fever showed associations with DHF and SD but not DSS. Additional microbiological investigations, such as blood and urine cultures, influenza and respiratory viral multiplex PCR, dengue NS1 and serology, were ordered at the discretion of the primary treating clinician. This suggests that in patients with prolonged fever, close monitoring for deterioration should be instituted, while patients with saddleback fever who remain well and do not require supplemental oxygenation are unlikely to require close monitoring in the hospital, explained Ng and co-authors. 40-year-old woman fever rash arthralgia Dx? "It is extremely difficult to tell the difference," explains Dr. Danelle Fisher, FAAP, pediatrician and chair of pediatrics at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, CA. Disclaimer. B, Comparison of immune mediator levels in patients with prolonged fever (n=11), patients with saddleback fever (n=8), and patients with fever that lasted 7 days (control; n=56). Another 4 patients were excluded from the primary analysis as they had a saddleback pattern of fever that lasted >24 hours; 12.7% (18/142) of cases had prolonged fever and another 9.9% (14/142) had saddleback fever. Rash. In conclusion, we reported on the prevalence, risk factors, cytokine profiles, and outcomes of patients with COVID-19 who had saddleback or prolonged fever. Concentrations of 45 immune mediators in plasma were quantified using a 45-plex microbead-based immunoassay. and transmitted securely. Further testing should include blood cultures, lactate dehydrogenase, creatine kinase, rheumatoid factor, and antinuclear antibodies. PMC Additional references were identified from the articles reviewed. We wish to thank members of the Singapore Immunology Network Wilson How, Norman Leo Fernandez, Olaf Rtzschke, and Bernett Lee for their assistance with the multiplex microbead-based immunoassays and data analyses. Cavalli G, De Luca G, Campochiaro C, et al. Careers. Members of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases COVID-19 Outbreak Research Team. All authors have submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest. Compared with prolonged fever, saddleback fever did not show many significant associations except for diarrhea, abdominal pain, clinical fluid accumulation, hematocrit and platelet change, and lower systolic blood pressure. Outcomes of COVID-19 Among High-Risk Individuals: A Study Comparing Febrile and Afebrile Presentation. Rowe EK, Leo Y-S, Wong JGX, Thein T-L, Gan VC, Lee LK, et al. World Health Organisation Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases. In patients with saddleback fever, higher levels of IL-1, IL-21, IL-22, and SDF-1 were observed compared with control patients. However, unlike RA, rheumatic . Patients were categorized as having prolonged fever (lasting >7 days), saddleback fever (defined as recurrent fever which lasts for <24 hours, after defervescence beyond day 7 of illness), or controls if their fever was 7 days. official website and that any information you provide is encrypted Outbreak Research Team members are listed in the Acknowledgments, Deborah H L Ng, Chiaw Yee Choy, Yi-Hao Chan, Barnaby E Young, Siew-Wai Fong, Lisa F P Ng, Laurent Renia, David C Lye, Po Ying Chia, National Centre for Infectious Diseases COVID-19 Outbreak Research Team, Fever Patterns, Cytokine Profiles, and Outcomes in COVID-19, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 7, Issue 9, September 2020, ofaa375, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa375. eCollection 2017 Summer. Open Forum Infect Dis. official website and that any information you provide is encrypted Before -. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and in-hospital mortality among COVID-19 patients: A population-based retrospective cohort study. We also excluded 4 patients whose fever pattern did not fulfill the case definition for prolonged or saddleback fever. Chan SY, Tsai YF, Yen MY, Yu WR, Hung CC, Kuo TL, Chen CC, Yen YF, Huang SH, Huang TC, Huang SJ. In one review, an ESR of 100 mm per hour or greater had a high specificity for malignancy (96%) and infection (97%), and its positive predictive value was 90%.29 A normal ESR has a high negative predictive value for temporal arteritis.28,30 An ESR that is not elevated has no diagnostic value and does not rule out neoplastic or other disorders.27 CRP level is a sensitive marker for infection and inflammation, but it is not sensitive enough to discriminate between disease processes.28 However, a more recent prospective study found that the chance of establishing a diagnosis was higher in patients who had an elevated CRP level and ESR.15, Procalcitonin is a newer marker specific for bacterial infection. ; Singapore 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak Research Team. Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Correspondence: Deborah H. L. Ng, MBChB, MRCP(UK), MSc, MPH, Department of Infectious Diseases, Centre for Healthcare Innovation, 18 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore 308443 (. Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature. 8600 Rockville Pike Mallhi TH, Khan AH, Adnan AS, Sarriff A, Khan YH, Jummaat F. BMC Infect Dis. In patients with a prolonged febrile illness, a minimum diagnostic workup should be performed before classifying the disease process as a fever of unknown origin. . Cytokines were determined with multiplex View PDF Save to Library Qiu H, Wu J, Hong L, Luo Y, Song Q, Chen D. Arend WP, Malyak M, Guthridge CJ, Gabay C. Essayan DM, Fox CC, Levi-Schaffer F, Alam R, Rosenwasser LJ. Our observational study observed the 24-h continuous tympanic temperature pattern of 15 patients with dengue fever and . All Rights Reserved. No overall differences in safety or effectiveness . Both prolonged (27.8% vs 0.9%; P<.01) and saddleback fever (14.3% vs 0.9%; P=.03) were associated with hypoxia compared with controls. Patient information: See related handout on fever of unknown origin in adults, written by the authors of this article. This corresponded with a rise in CRP and LDH seen in cases with prolonged fever, which are known to be associated with adverse prognostic factors in COVID-19 [15, 16]. Unauthorized use of these marks is strictly prohibited. Fevers usually don't need treatment. is funded by the National Medical Research Council (NMRC/Fellowship/0056/2018). In multiple studies, procalcitonin has been shown to have a specificity ranging from 70% to 98%, with a higher specificity for bacterial infection than other markers.28,31,32 It may be helpful in distinguishing between fevers with a bacterial cause vs. noninfectious inflammatory diseases, but its role in the workup of FUO is currently undefined.28,32, If the diagnosis remains elusive, tests targeting malignancies and noninfectious inflammatory diseases should be considered. Dengue fever is an acute febrile illness with a duration of 2-12 days. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20200250. Data Sources: A PubMed search was completed using the key terms fever of unknown origin, FUO, pyrexia of unknown origin, and inflammatory markers. Geneva: World Health Organization, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Geneva: 2000. Murthy S, Archambault PM, Atique A, Carrier FM, Cheng MP, Codan C, Daneman N, Dechert W, Douglas S, Fiest KM, Fowler R, Goco G, Gu Y, Guerguerian AM, Hall R, Hsu JM, Joffe A, Jouvet P, Kelly L, Kho ME, Kruisselbrink RJ, Kumar D, Kutsogiannis DJ, Lamontagne F, Lee TC, Menon K, O'Grady H, O'Hearn K, Ovakim DH, Pharand SG, Pitre T, Reel R, Reeve B, Rewa O, Richardson D, Rishu A, Sandhu G, Sarfo-Mensah S, Shadowitz E, Sligl W, Solomon J, Stelfox HT, Swanson A, Tessier-Grenier H, Tsang JLY, Wood G; SPRINT-SARI Canada Investigators and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. The differences in cytokine and chemokine profiles among [the three groups] suggest that different immunological responses could result in the differences in the clinical phenotype observed, said Ng and co-authors. IL-1 is dual function cytokine that can act as both a transcription factor and a damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP), which can be released by necrotic cells to promote and exacerbate inflammation via IL-1R1 [30]. The site is secure. When compared with controls, both prolonged and saddleback fever were associated with hypoxia, with the highest rate seen in cases with prolonged fever (27.8 percent and 14.3 percent vs 0.9 percent for prolonged and saddleback fever vs control, respectively; p<0.01 and p=0.03 for each respective comparison). Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), dengue shock syndrome (DSS) and severe dengue (SD) were significantly more likely to occur in patients with prolonged fever. Ng DH, Wong JG, Thein TL, Leo YS, Lye DC. Two remained in the general ward throughout their stay without any complications, while 2 were admitted to the ICU, 1 of whom died from acute respiratory distress syndrome. Accessibility There was no difference in types of diagnoses for those who met the strict 1991 definition compared with those who received a diagnosis in less than three weeks.10 Therefore, FUO may be assumed when no reasonable diagnosis is reached after an appropriate inpatient or outpatient investigation.2,6,1017 Table 1 compares the evolution of the definition of FUO.2,3,6,7,1017, Other subtypes of FUO are nosocomial, neutropenic, and human immunodeficiency virusassociated.7 These subtypes have different approaches to evaluation and are beyond the scope of this article.17, The etiologies of FUO have changed over time because of shifting disease patterns and new diagnostic techniques.14 There are more than 200 diseases in the differential diagnosis.4,15,17 In multiple case series, however, the etiology of FUO is limited to several dozen causes, and patients often have an atypical presentation of a common disease.2,6,18. Approval for data collection by retrospective chart review with a waiver of written informed consent from study participants was granted by the Singapore Ministry of Health under the Infectious Diseases Act as part of the outbreak investigation [14]. Cases without prolonged or saddleback fever were included as controls. Safety and Efficacy of Imatinib for Hospitalized Adults with COVID-19: A structured summary of a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. 2 A diagnosis of classic KD is made in patients with prolonged fever (five or more days) and four or more of the following principal . Both prolonged (27.8% vs 0.9%, p <0.01) and saddleback fever (14.3% vs 0.9%, p= 0.03) were associated with hypoxia compared to controls. Refining the global spatial limits of dengue virus transmission by evidence-based consensus. Clinical characteristics and analysis of risk factors for disease progression of patients with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant infection: A retrospective study of 25207 cases in a Fangcang hospital. Moreover, cases with prolonged fever also showed significantly higher plasma levels of inflammatory biomarkers such as interleukin (IL)-6 (p<0.01), IL-1RA (p<0.05), and induced protein-10 (IP-10; p<0.001) compared with controls during the early acute disease phase. Accessibility Prevalence and Predictors of Persistent Symptoms After Clearance of SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Multicenter Study from Egypt. 2013 Sep 26;7(9):e2412. Retrospective characterisation and outcome of surgical treatment for cervical lymph node abscessation in 15 dogs. Clinical and laboratory predictive markers for acute dengue infection. Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies In contrast, cases with saddleback fever showed no significant change upon repeating their laboratory tests. 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Higher heart rate and respiratory rate and lower oxygen saturation (spO2), systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) were associated with prolonged fever compared with controls (Table 1). B, Comparison of immune mediator levels in patients with prolonged fever (n=11), patients with saddleback fever (n=8), and patients with fever that lasted 7 days (control; n=56). Prolonged fever was defined as fever lasting more than 7 days. Cytokines included granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), epidermal growth factor (EGF), brain-derived neurotrophic factor, beta-nerve growth factor (bNGF), basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2), hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP) 1, macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP) 1, MIP-1, RANTES (regulated on activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted), chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand (CXCL) 1 (GRO-), stromal cellderived factor 1 (SDF-1), interferon (IFN) gamma-induced protein 10 (IP-10), eotaxin, IFN-, IFN-, interleukin (IL) IL-1, IL-1, IL-1 receptor agonist (IL-1RA), IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-7, IL-8, IL-9, IL-10, IL-12p70, IL-13, IL-15, IL-17A, IL-18, IL-21, IL-22, IL-23, IL-27, IL-31, leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), stem cell factor (SCF), tumor necrosis factor (TNF-), TNF-, vascular endothelial growth factors A and D (VEGF-A, VEGF-D), platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF-BB), and placental growth factor (PLGF-1). One case with prolonged fever had concomitant infection with ventilator-associated pneumonia, with Klebsiella pneumoniae grown from his endotracheal aspirate on day 8 of ICU admission (day 15 of illness). When there are no clear localizing signs or symptoms, clinicians should expand on the patient's symptoms and historical information, looking for potentially diagnostic clues to guide the evaluation (Table 4).1720,25,27 This is a continuous, iterative process.1921 Potentially diagnostic clues lead to a diagnosis in 62% of patients, although clues can be misleading because they are found in 97% of patients.1517, If no potentially diagnostic clues are found, a minimum diagnostic workup should be performed. Both COVID-19 and the common cold can include a runny nose, sore throat, and fever, says Dr. Fisher, and both can last between a few days or a week. Plasma fractions were isolated from blood samples of COVID-19 patients collected during the acute phase (median post-illness onset, 6 days). The mean duration of symptoms and signs before diagnosis (28.4 13.2 versus 45.0 30.8 days; P < 0.05), . Nevertheless, as patients in the ICU are at higher risk of nosocomial infections, due diligence should be done to exclude other causes of fever [17]. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. The presence of prolonged or saddleback fever in dengue patients should therefore prompt detailed evaluation for complications of dengue, as well as early investigation to evaluate for development of nosocomial infection. While it has been reported that complications of COVID-19 occur in the second week of illness, the significance of these 2 patterns of fever with regards to the development of complications is unknown [4]. At the initial encounter, testing for common infections should include a complete blood count with differential, electrolyte panel, liver enzymes, urinalysis with culture, blood culture, and chest radiography. See permissionsforcopyrightquestions and/or permission requests. The search included reviews, case series, meta-analyses, and randomized controlled trials. MeSH The Author(s) 2020. National Library of Medicine The definition of what constitutes FUO remains controversial.1,2 FUO was first described in a 1961 case series as prolonged febrile illness (temperature of 101F [38.3C] or higher) for three weeks or longer that did not have an established etiology despite a one-week inpatient evaluation.3,4 The arbitrarily defined three weeks allowed most acute, self-limited illnesses to resolve, as well as sufficient time to complete the initial investigation.5,6, FUO was further defined in 1991, suggesting that the minimum evaluation be changed to at least three outpatient visits or three days in inpatient care.7 Others have proposed shorter lengths of time (e.g., two weeks, because today's patients present earlier and receive a diagnosis more quickly).8,9 A retrospective review of 226 hospitalized febrile patients examined the timing of diagnosis from initial visit for fever through the end of hospitalization. Shivering, shaking, and chills Aching muscles and joints or other body aches Headache Intermittent sweats or excessive sweating Rapid heart rate and/or palpitations Skin flushing or hot skin Feeling faint, dizzy, or lightheaded Eye pain or sore eyes Weakness Loss of appetite Fussiness (in children and toddlers) A prolonged fever of unknown origin (FUO) is simply one that lasts longer than usual, for example, more than the seven to 10 days that you would expect with a simple viral infection. Copyright 2023 American Academy of Family Physicians. sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal Interestingly, there are also higher plasma levels of IL-1RA in patients with prolonged fever compared with control patients. The results of this study can be used to optimize placement of patients with COVID-19. Cases with prolonged fever were defined as patients with fever lasting >7 days. Epub 2020 Oct 21. Previous testing (ESR, complete blood count, electrolyte panel, chest radiography, urinalysis, blood culture) may be repeated periodically to evaluate for trends as the illness evolves. Fever of unknown origin has been described as a febrile illness (temperature of 101F [38.3C] or higher) for three weeks or longer without an etiology despite a one-week inpatient evaluation. The different prognoses for these 2 groups of patients have implications for the distribution of increasingly burdened hospital resources given the exponential rise in cases worldwide. Pneumonia was present in 26.8% (38/142) of the cohort, of which 21.1% (8/38) required supplemental oxygen; 2.1% (3/142) of patients required ICU admission, 1 of whom required mechanical ventilation. Empiric antibiotics or steroids are generally discouraged in patients with fever of unknown origin. 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