Symptom
Fever
An adaptive immune response causing a temporary elevation of the hypothalamic thermoregulatory set point in response to endogenous or exogenous pyrogens. Possible causes are infections (common cold, influenza, COVID-19, dengue, gasteroenteritis, strep throat, UTI, tonsillitis, pneumonia), autoimmune inflammation (rheumatoid arthritis, IBD, SLE), enviromental factors (overheating), tissue damage (surgery, trauma), hyperthyroidism, medications, vaccine, or malignancy (lymphoma, leukemia).
Also known as: Pyrexia
Referencing diagnoses
- Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis
- Acute intermittent porphyria
- Acute interstitial pneumonia
- Acute invasive fungal sinusitis
- Acute laryngitis
- Acute pancreatitis
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Acute sinusitis
- Adrenal insufficiency
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Anorectal abscess
- Anorectal fistula
- Aortic dissection
- Aortoenteric fistula
- Appendicitis
- Ascites
- Brain abscess
- Candidiasis
- Cardiac tamponade
- Cellulitis
- Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
- Chickenpox
- Cholangitis
- Cholecystitis
- Choledocholithiasis
- Chronic sinusitis
- Colovesical fistula
- COVID-19
- Crohn disease
- Croup
- Dermatomyositis
- Diarrhea
- Discitis
- Diverticulitis
- Encephalitis
- Endocarditis
- Epididymitis
- Epiglottitis
- Erysipelas
- Erythema infectiosum
- Erythema multiforme
- Erythema nodosum
- Esophageal perforation
- Familial mediterranean fever
- Fat embolism syndrome
- Febrile seizure
- Femoral hernia
- Gallbladder cancer
- Gastric lymphoma
- Gastroenteritis
- Hand-Foot-and-Mouth disease
- Henoch-Schönlein purpura
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Herpes simplex
- Herpes zoster
- Hirschsprung's Disease
- HIV
- Hydrocephalus
- Hydronephrosis
- Hypernatremia
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypopituitarism
- Hypothyroidism
- Impetigo
- Incisional hernia
- Intracerebral hemorrhage
- Intussusception
- Ischemic colitis
- Jaundice
- Kawasaki disease
- Leishmaniasis
- Leporsy
- Liver abscess
- Ludwigs angina
- Lung cancer
- Lyme disease
- Malignant hyperthermia
- Mastitis
- Meckels diverticulum
- Meningitis
- Mesenteric adenitis
- Mononucleosis
- Mumps
- Myocarditis
- Necrotizing enterocolitis
- Necrotizing fasciitis
- Neuroblastoma
- Neutropenic enterocolitis
- Ogilvie syndrome
- Osteomyelitis
- Osteosarcoma
- Otitis media
- Ovarian torsion
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Perforated ulcer
- Pericarditis
- Peritonitis
- Peritonsillar abscess
- Pharyngitis
- Pilonidal disease
- Pleural effusion
- Pleural empyema
- Pleuritis
- Pneumonia
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Pseudomembranous colitis
- Psoriasis
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pyelonephritis
- Pyonephrosis
- Reactive arthritis
- Rectus sheath hematoma
- Renal cell carcinoma
- Respiratory alkalosis
- Retroperitoneal hemorrhage
- Retropharyngeal abscess
- Rheumatic fever
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Ruptured ectopic pregnancy
- Ruptured ovarian cyst
- Sarcoidosis
- Schistosomiasis
- Shock
- Sialadenitis
- Sickle cell disease
- Splenic abscess
- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
- Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
- Syphilis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Temporal arteritis
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
- Thyrotoxicosis
- Toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Tuberculosis
- Ulcerative colitis
- Urinary tract infection
- Urolithiasis
- Urticaria
- Viral hepatitis
- Volvulus
- Wegener's granulomatosis
- Whipple's disease
- Wilms Tumor
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