Glossary for FUO

Medical terms related to FUO or mentioned in this section include:

• AIDS: A term given to HIV patients who have a low CD4 count (below 200) which means that they have low levels of a type of immune cell called T-cells. AIDS patients tend to develop opportunistic infections and cancers. Opportunistic infections are infections that would not normally affect a person with a healthy immune system. The HIV virus is a virus that attacks the body's immune system.
• Abscess: This is an area of puss collected in a cavity which is constituted by necrotised tissue
• Amebiasis: Intestinal inflammation caused by Entamoeba histolytica and often marked by symptoms such as frequent, loose bowel movements that contain blood and mucus. Also called intestinal amebic dysentery.
• Blastomycosis: A fungal infection caused by Blastomyces dermatitidis and resulting in lung, skin, bone and genitourinary involvement.
• Brucellosis: An infectious disease caused by the Brucella genus which is transmitted from animals to humans.
• Cancer: Abnormal overgrowth of body cells.
• Coccidioidomycosis: An infectious fungal disease caused by inhaling the spores of a particular bacteria. Also called desert fever, desert rheumatism, San Joaquin fever and valley fever.
• Common symptoms: The most common symptoms
• Connective tissue disorders: Any condition affecting connective tissues.
• Cough: Any type of coughing symptom.
• Crohn's disease: Crohn's disease causes inflammation of the digestive system. It is one of a group of diseases called inflammatory bowel disease. The disease can affect any area from the mouth to the anus. It often affects the lower part of the small intestine called the ileum.
• Cytomegalovirus: A easily transmissible viral infection that is common but generally causes no symptoms except in infants and people with weakened immune systems.
• Familial Mediterranean fever: A rare inherited condition characterized by recurrent fever and inflammation. The inflammation usually involves the stomach, lungs or joints.
• Fever: Raised body temperature usually with other symptoms.
• Fungal infections: Symptoms from various fungal infections
• HIV/AIDS: HIV is a sexually transmitted virus and AIDS is the progressive immune failure that HIV causes.
• Hereditary primary Fanconi disease: A rare inherited disorder characterized by defective reabsorption of various substances such as phosphate, potassium, amino acids and glucose which manifests as a wide range of abnormalities and problems.
• High fever: Where a patient has an elevated temperature
• Histoplasmosis: Lung infection from fungus Histoplasma capsulatum
• Hodgkin's Disease: A form of cancer that affects the lymphatic system.
• Infection: Infections as a symptom.
• Krabbé Disease: Brain myelin disorder with various symptoms.
• Leukemia: Cancer of the blood cells, usually white blood cells.
• Lupus: Autoimmune disease with numerous effects on various organs and linings.
• Lyme disease: Lyme disease is an emerging infectious disease caused by at least three species of bacteria belonging to the genus Borrelia.
• Malaria: A parasitic disease transmitted through mosquito bites.
• Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: A condition which is any neoplastic disorder of the lymphoid tissue
• Osteomyelitis: An infection that occurs in bone
• Possible human carcinogenic exposure - Phenobarbital: Some evidence indicates that exposure to Phenobarbital (a pharmaceutical drug) has a possible link to an increased risk of developing cancer in humans. The carcinogenicity of the substance may be influenced by the duration and level of exposure.
• Psittacosis: An infectious disease caused by Chlamydia psittaci and transmitted mainly by infected birds but also by some mammals.
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever: A bacterial disease caused by Rickettsia rickettsii and transmitted by ticks. The condition causes fever and a characteristic rash and may be fatal in severe or untreated cases.
• Sarcoidosis: Rare autoimmune disease usually affecting the lungs.
• Sick: Feeling ill or off color
• Temperature symptoms: Abnormalities of body temperature including fever.
• Toni-Fanconi syndrome type 1:
• Toxoplasmosis: Infection often caught from cats and their feces.
• Trichinosis: Worm infection usually caught from pigs
• Tuberculosis: Bacterial infection causing nodules forming, most commonly in the lung.
• Urinary tract infection: Infection of the urinary tract
• Vasculitis: A condition which is characterized by inflammation to blood vessels

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