Connective tissue disease
Connective tissue disease may present with pyrexia of unknown origin. The long list of possible causes includes:
- rheumatoid arthritis
- systemic lupus erythematous
- polyarteritis nodosa
- temporal arteritis
- Still's disease
- Wegener's granulomatosis
- "non-specific vasculitis"
- acute rheumatic fever
- polymyalgia rheumatica
- polymyositis
These may cause a PUO which lasts for more than three weeks.
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