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== Differential Diagnosis ==
 
== Differential Diagnosis ==
   
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* Routine infections: pneumonia, bacteremia
* CMV disease
 
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* [[Opportunistic infections in HIV|Opportunistic infections]]
* Tuberculosis
 
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** Disseminated [[Mycobacterium avium complex]] (most common cause in one US study[[CiteRef::armstrong1999hu]])
* MAC
 
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** [[Pneumocystis jirovecii]]
 
** [[CMV|CMV disease]]
 
** [[Tuberculosis]]
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** [[Histoplasmosis]], [[cryptococcosis]]
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** [[Toxoplasmosis]]
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* Non-infectious causes
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** [[HLH]]
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** [[Non-Hodgkin lymphoma]]
   
 
[[Category:HIV]]
 
[[Category:HIV]]

Latest revision as of 13:44, 19 September 2024

Background

  • Fever of unknown origin in this population includes temperatures >38.3ºC without diagnosis over 4 weeks (outpatient) or 3 days (inpatient) in patients with HIV, despite initial investigations including preliminary results of blood cultures at 48 hours

Differential Diagnosis

References

  1. ^  Wendy S. Armstrong, Joel T. Katz, Powel H. Kazanjian. Human Immunodeficiency Virus‐Associated Fever of Unknown Origin: A Study of 70 Patients in the United States and Review. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 1999;28(2):341-345. doi:10.1086/515138.