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Continued fever

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(Med.) a fever which presents no interruption in its course.

See also: Continued



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A disease known since antiquity, typhus has been described as follows: "A kind of continued fever, attended with great prostration of the nervous and vascular systems, with a tendency to putrefaction in the fluids and vitiation in the secretions; putrid fever.
Ten hours later, the patient returned to sick call complaining of a severe headache, worsening myalgia, particularly of his lower back and flank, nausea, and continued fever and chills.
Conventional IJV ligation was performed because his physical condition had worsened, with continued fevers and evidence of septic emboli on CT, despite conservative medical treatment with IV antibiotics and anticoagulation.
 
 
 
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