Hyperthermia due to heat retention in chronic spinal cord injury: A case report

An 80‐year‐old male with past history of cervical spinal cord injury visited our hospital owing to perforation in the digestive tract. Upon admission to the general ward, he presented with a sustained fever that was unresponsive to acetaminophen and antibiotics. Based on the dry skin and underlying...

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Autores principales: Tomoda, Yoshitaka, Kagawa, Satoshi, Kurata, Satoshi, Tanaka, Kazutoyo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6498100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31065476
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.234
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Kagawa, Satoshi
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description An 80‐year‐old male with past history of cervical spinal cord injury visited our hospital owing to perforation in the digestive tract. Upon admission to the general ward, he presented with a sustained fever that was unresponsive to acetaminophen and antibiotics. Based on the dry skin and underlying disease, he was diagnosed with hyperthermia due to heat retention. After controlling the room temperature to cool his body and performing evaporative and convective cooling, his symptoms completely resolved. This case highlights that primary physicians should be aware of thermoregulatory dysfunction in patients with cervical spinal cord injury.
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spelling pubmed-64981002019-05-07 Hyperthermia due to heat retention in chronic spinal cord injury: A case report Tomoda, Yoshitaka Kagawa, Satoshi Kurata, Satoshi Tanaka, Kazutoyo J Gen Fam Med Case Reports An 80‐year‐old male with past history of cervical spinal cord injury visited our hospital owing to perforation in the digestive tract. Upon admission to the general ward, he presented with a sustained fever that was unresponsive to acetaminophen and antibiotics. Based on the dry skin and underlying disease, he was diagnosed with hyperthermia due to heat retention. After controlling the room temperature to cool his body and performing evaporative and convective cooling, his symptoms completely resolved. This case highlights that primary physicians should be aware of thermoregulatory dysfunction in patients with cervical spinal cord injury. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6498100/ /pubmed/31065476 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.234 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Journal of General and Family Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japan Primary Care Association This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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title_full Hyperthermia due to heat retention in chronic spinal cord injury: A case report
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title_full_unstemmed Hyperthermia due to heat retention in chronic spinal cord injury: A case report
title_short Hyperthermia due to heat retention in chronic spinal cord injury: A case report
title_sort hyperthermia due to heat retention in chronic spinal cord injury: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6498100/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.234
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