fiebre

Also known as pyrexia, febrile response, pyrrhexia

signo clínico caracterizado por un aumento de la temperatura corporal

AI overview

A fever is when your body's temperature rises above normal because your brain's temperature control center increases its set point as part of your body's defense against infection. While there's no single agreed-upon definition of exactly where normal temperature ends and fever begins, this elevated temperature is an important sign that your immune system is responding to fight off illness.

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Key facts

Medical condition.name: Fever
Medical condition.synonyms: Pyrexia, febrile response, febrile
Medical condition.image: Symptoms-fever.jpg
Medical condition.caption: Person with fever
Medical condition.field: Infectious disease, pediatrics
Medical condition.symptoms: Initially: shivering, feeling cold, chillsLater: flushed, sweating
Medical condition.complications: Febrile seizure
Medical condition.causes: Virus, bacteria, increase in the body's temperature set point
Medical condition.diagnosis: Temperature higher than the normal range of
Medical condition.differential: Hyperthermia
Medical condition.treatment: Based on underlying cause, not required for fever itself
Medical condition.medication: Antipyretics (ibuprofen, paracetamol [acetaminophen])
Medical condition.frequency: Common

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Research

295,960 papers

Neurogenic Fever.ReviewJournal of intensive care medicine · 2017Meier K, Lee KDOI: 10.1177/0885066615625194
Fever of unknown origin: a clinical approach.ReviewThe American journal of medicine · 2015Cunha BA, Lortholary O, Cunha CBDOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2015.06.001
Fever--an update.ReviewJournal of the American Podiatric Medical Association · 2010Becker JH, Wu SCDOI: 10.7547/1000281
Fever in travellers returning from the tropics.ReviewMedicina clinica · 2019Jiménez-Morillas F, Gil-Mosquera M, García-Lamberechts EJ et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2019.03.017
Periodic fever syndromes.ReviewCurrent opinion in pediatrics · 2000Scholl PRDOI: 10.1097/00008480-200012000-00009
Fever.Pediatrics · 1980Kluger MJ
Fever in the neurosurgical patient.ReviewHeart & lung : the journal of critical care · 1988Cunha BA, Tu RP
Fever in the returning traveler.ReviewEmergency medicine clinics of North America · 2013Kotlyar S, Rice BTDOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2013.07.001

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Article · Español

La fiebre, pirexia o síndrome febril es un síndrome (conjunto de signos y síntomas) que se manifiesta generalmente, aunque no siempre, cuando un animal de sangre caliente tiene una temperatura corporal superior a la considerada normal para su especie y cuyo principal signo clínico es la hipertermia. Por ejemplo, en el ser humano, equivale a una temperatura de 37,5 °C o superior. Por lo general es la respuesta del organismo a agentes de naturaleza infecciosa (que es lo más frecuente) o a causas no infecciosas (toxinas de resorción, lesiones en ciertos territorios nerviosos, etc.). La hipertermia es el signo médico más común en enfermedades infecciosas. Cabe aclarar que, semiológicamente hablando, fiebre o síndrome febril no son sinónimos de hipertermia ya que este último término hace referencia a un signo clínico, mientras que la fiebre es un síndrome que generalmente se presenta con el signo hipertermia.

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