A RARE CASE OF PYREXIA OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN

Authors

  • DR. E. DHANDAPANI Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Sree Balaji Medical College & Hospital, Chromepet, Chennai.
  • DR. S. ARUN Post Graduate, Department of Internal Medicine, Sree Balaji Medical College & Hospital, Chromepet, Chennai.
  • DR. ANKIT MANAM Post Graduate, Department of Internal Medicine, Sree Balaji Medical College & Hospital, Chromepet, Chennai.

Keywords:

Fever, pyrexia of unkown origin, hepatocellular carcinoma, metastasis, intra cardiac mass

Abstract

We present a case of a young male with 3 weeks of fever, evaluated extensively and was found to have a right atrial mass which turned out to be a metastatic deposit from the liver. Intracardiac masses are a rare and unusual cause for Pyrexia of Unknown Origin. The differential diagnoses of intracardiac masses include vegetation, thrombus or tumours. Malignant cardiac tumors are more common than benign tumors. Secondary or metastatic heart tumors occur comparatively more frequently, with an at least 100 times higher incidence than primary tumors of the heart. We present this case in view of its rarity.

Downloads

Published

31.03.2015

How to Cite

DR. E. DHANDAPANI, DR. S. ARUN, & DR. ANKIT MANAM. (2015). A RARE CASE OF PYREXIA OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN. International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences, 6(1), 929–934. Retrieved from https://ijpbs.net/index.php/journal/article/view/4068

Issue

Volume 6, Issue 1, 2015

Section

Research Articles

Categories

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.