Research Article
The Causes of Acute Fever Requiring Hospitalization in Geriatric Patients: Comparison of Infectious and NoninfectiousEtiology
Table 1
The etiologies of acute fever in geriatric patients with underlying disease and with no underlying disease.
| | Geriatric patients () | Geriatric patient with underlying disease () |
| | Infectious diseases () | | | | Lower respiratory tract infection (, 24.8%) | 10 (20%) | 36 (27%) | | Pneumonia | 10 (20%) | 31 (23%) | | Pulmonary tuberculosis | | 5 (4%) | | Infection of skin and soft tissue (, 14%) | 7 (14%) | 19 (14%) | | Orthopedic Infections (, 1.6%) | 0 | 3 (2%) | | Urinary tract infections (, 14%) | 5 (10%) | 21 (16%) | | Central nervous system infection (, 5.4%) | 4 (8%) | 6 (4.5%) | | Intrabdominal infections (, 3.7%) | 2 (4%) | 5 (4%) | | Vascular system infections (, 3. 2%) | 0 | 6 (4.5%) | | Disseminated tuberculosis (, 1.6%) | 0 | 3 (2%) | | Brusellosis (, 3.2%) | 6 (12%) | 0 | | Ricketsial disease (, 0.5%) | 1 (2%) | 0 | | Acute osteomyelitis (, 0.5%) | 1 (2%) | 0 |
| | Noninfectious diseases (, ) | 1 () | | | Rheumatologic diseases (, 4.3%) | 1 (2%) | 7 (5%) | | Vasculitis (, 3.7%) | 0 | 7 (5%) | | Solid tumor (, 3.7%) | 0 | 7 (5%) | | Hematologic malignities (, 5.4%) | 0 | 10 (7.5%) |
| | Undiagnosed diseases (, ) | 14 (27.4%) | 4 () |
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