Summary
Differentials
Common
- Pyrexial response to surgery
- Urinary tract infection
- Wound infection
- Superficial thrombophlebitis
- Abdominal abscess
- Foreign body infection
- Catheter-associated intravascular infection
- Clostridium difficile colitis
- Sepsis
- Pneumonia
- Hematoma
- Deep venous thrombosis
- Pulmonary embolism
- Osteomyelitis
Uncommon
- Transfusion reaction
- Transplant rejection
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Sinusitis post nasogastric tube insertion
- Acalculous cholecystitis
- Meningitis post neurosurgery
- Otitis media post ENT surgery
- Sialadenitis
- Transfusion-related infection
- Seroma
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage post neurosurgery
- Drug fever
- Alcohol withdrawal
- Malignant hyperthermia
- Fat embolism
- Myocardial infarction
- Stroke
- Cavernous sinus thrombosis post ENT or neurosurgery
- Ischemia of operated tissue
- Gout exacerbation
- Pseudogout exacerbation
- Hyperthyroidism exacerbation
- Pheochromocytoma exacerbation
- Underlying malignancy
- Adrenal crisis
- Pancreatitis
Contributors
Authors
Program Director Internal Medicine
Assistant Professor
University of Florida-Health Science Center
Internal Medicine Residency Program
Jacksonville
FL
Disclosures
JH declares that he has no competing interests.
Professor of Medicine
Florida State University
College of Medicine
Tallahassee
FL
Disclosures
IA declares that she has no competing interests.
Peer reviewers
Consultant Paediatrician
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Chelsfield Park Hospital
Chelsfield
Orpington
UK
Disclosures
ASER declares that he has no competing interests.
Consultant
Infectious Diseases
Associate Professor
Section of Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
University of Manitoba
Director
Infection Prevention and Control Unit Health Sciences Centre
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada
Disclosures
JME declares that he has no competing interests.
Professor of Medicine
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx
NY
Disclosures
SGB declares that he has no competing interests.
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