Questions on PUO
1-The most probable cause of immune deficient PUO is :-Streptococcal pneumonia
Thrombophlebitis
Drug fever
Unknown
2-A 45 years old male known to have chronic renal failure, admitted to the hospital to start hemodialysis at that time he was afebrile, 3 days later he developed fever of (39°C) persist for 3 days. CBC showed Hb=9 g/dl, WBC=13*109 cells/l, platelets count=170*109 this type of fever is most probably:-
Immune deficient PUO
Health care associated PUO
Classic PUO
None of above
3-All the followings are criteria for immune deficient PUO except :-
Temperature >38.3°CDuration > 3 weeks
Neutrophile count 400
No valuabie diagnosis despite initial 48 hours of assessment
4-A patient can be considered to have classic PUO in which of the followings scenario :-
69 years old female with fever ranging (38.4°C - 38.8°C) for 40 days without finding a source of infection despite 10 days of inpatient investigations.
33 years old diabetic female present with fever of (39.5°C) for 3 days associated with rigor and loin pain.
18 years old female presented with fever ranging (38.5°C -39.7°C) for 1 month duration, with previous history of multiple hospital admissions and history of psychiatric problem.
23 years old female presented with fever of (38.9°C) and backache for 14 days duration, initial assessment showed high titer of Brucella agglutination test.