Fever as a Clinical Presentation of Acute Hydrocephalus: Two Case Reports and a Review of Literature

Fever is often associated with infectious, traumatic, or allergenic etiologies, a known consequence of the systemic inflammatory response. Its association with a rise in intracranial pressures (ICP) is an uncommon presentation. We herein describe two patients who developed acute hydrocephalus and pr...

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Autores principales: Igbokwe, Kenechukwu K, Odekpe, Ugochukwutumonye, Ononye, Reginald
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34786275
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19383
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author Igbokwe, Kenechukwu K
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Ononye, Reginald
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description Fever is often associated with infectious, traumatic, or allergenic etiologies, a known consequence of the systemic inflammatory response. Its association with a rise in intracranial pressures (ICP) is an uncommon presentation. We herein describe two patients who developed acute hydrocephalus and presented with high-grade fever. This febrile component was resistant to conventional antipyretics and was only relieved by cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) diversion.
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spelling pubmed-85801272021-11-15 Fever as a Clinical Presentation of Acute Hydrocephalus: Two Case Reports and a Review of Literature Igbokwe, Kenechukwu K Odekpe, Ugochukwutumonye Ononye, Reginald Cureus Neurology Fever is often associated with infectious, traumatic, or allergenic etiologies, a known consequence of the systemic inflammatory response. Its association with a rise in intracranial pressures (ICP) is an uncommon presentation. We herein describe two patients who developed acute hydrocephalus and presented with high-grade fever. This febrile component was resistant to conventional antipyretics and was only relieved by cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) diversion. Cureus 2021-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8580127/ /pubmed/34786275 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19383 Text en Copyright © 2021, Igbokwe et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Igbokwe, Kenechukwu K
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Fever as a Clinical Presentation of Acute Hydrocephalus: Two Case Reports and a Review of Literature
title Fever as a Clinical Presentation of Acute Hydrocephalus: Two Case Reports and a Review of Literature
title_full Fever as a Clinical Presentation of Acute Hydrocephalus: Two Case Reports and a Review of Literature
title_fullStr Fever as a Clinical Presentation of Acute Hydrocephalus: Two Case Reports and a Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed Fever as a Clinical Presentation of Acute Hydrocephalus: Two Case Reports and a Review of Literature
title_short Fever as a Clinical Presentation of Acute Hydrocephalus: Two Case Reports and a Review of Literature
title_sort fever as a clinical presentation of acute hydrocephalus: two case reports and a review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34786275
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19383
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