dizziness/fever

A 17-year-old young woman presented to Patan Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal, with high-grade fever and headache for 4 days and non-projectile vomiting for 1 day. She also had blurred vision with dizziness on and off. There was no abnormal physical finding. Enteric fever was suspected, and she was

Human parvovirus B19 (HPV-B19), a small and non-enveloped DNA virus, causes erythema infectiosum (EI) in children. In adults, however, it is known to cause a variety of symptoms. A 39-year-old woman visited our hospital because of low-grade fever, diarrhea, bilateral leg edema, and numbness in the

BACKGROUND The state of Minas Gerais, Brazil has no data on the prevalence of dizziness in the population and this information can be fundamental as the basis of public health policies, promotion, prevention and rehabilitation campaigns. OBJECTIVE Investigate the prevalence of the symptom of

A 21-year-old woman presented with an acute febrile illness after a two-week holiday in Jamaica. Her symptoms started two days after return, with sudden onset of continuous high fever (> 39 degrees C), dizziness and nausea. Three days later she developed a generalized macular rash, which led to the

In early 2016, there was a Yellow Fever (YF) outbreak in Central Africa with several deaths reported from Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Due to a shortage in vaccine supply, fractional dosing (0.1 ml) of 17DD Yellow Fever Vaccine (YFV) was proposed in preventive vaccination campaign in

A 30-year-old man had complete-type Behçet's disease since he was 23 years old. Disease signs and symptoms were well controlled. After experiencing no symptoms for some years, however, he experienced dizziness, headache, fever, dysarthria, right facial nerve palsy, and right tinnitus. He showed

Chaige Jieji Decoction recorded in Six Books of Exogenous Febrile Disease could be used to treat exterior syndrome due to wind-cold and heat caused by stagnation. The indications of Chaige Jieji Decoction include acute exogenous febrile diseases,such as influenza,upper respiratory tract

We report a case of Cogan's syndrome presenting as fever of unknown origin in a 31-year-old woman who was admitted to the hospital with a 7-week history of fever, night sweats and other constitutional symptoms. The diagnosis remained elusive despite numerous investigations, and the patient

Slight, moderate but also high rises in temperature, excluding other causes of fever, can be considered symptoms of periodic syndrome originating by hypothalamic centers as soon as headache, recurrent abdominal pains, growing pains, dizziness, kinetosis. These rises aren't uncommon, but often aren't

A 30-year-old man with depression who was treated with paroxetine (Seroxat) developed severe withdrawal symptoms when the medication was gradually diminished and stopped: agitation, irritability, vertigo, lightheadedness and fever up to 40 degrees C. The symptoms disappeared after the medication was

A clinical study in 946 human volunteers was done to compare Candid #1 vaccine manufactured in Argentina with the vaccine produced in USA that had been previously used. The efficacy was evaluated using immunogenicity measured by the detection of neutralizing antibodies as a subrogate marker. Safety

The authors studied the antipyretic effect of three intramuscular doses of ketorolac (15, 30, and 60 mg), acetaminophen 650 mg PO, and placebo in healthy male volunteers using an endotoxin-induced fever model. In this double-blind, double-dummy, parallel study, subjects were assigned randomly with

BACKGROUND Leiomyosarcoma is a rare gynecologic malignancy that accounts for less than 1% of gynecological malignancies. Leiomyosarcoma of the broad ligament is an even rarer condition. According to Gardner's criteria, the diagnosis is made when the mass is completely separated from the uterus and

Clinical and epidemiological features of 72 cases of boutonneuse fever, detected from 1979 to 1986 at the "Hospital del Insalud de Cartagena" (Murcia), are reviewed. The most important clinical features are commented on (fever, rash, tache noire), as well as the less important (dizziness, cough,