Hemorrhagic febrile diseases

Indications Blood heat reckless movement, replete fire in the liver and stomach. Hematemesis, hemoptysis, epistaxis, pulmonary tuberculosis, bronchiectasis, acute hemorrhagic esophagitis or gastritis, peptic ulcer bleeding, hemorrhagic febrile diseases, and functional uterine bleeding... 

Signs and Symptoms Self limiting febrile disease. Symptoms include arthritis in wrist, knee, ankle, and small joints of extremities typically followed by a maculopapular rash in 1-10 days. Swelling of the cheeks and palate can occur. May present hemorrhagic symptoms. Recovery may be prolonged. 

Differential Diagnosis The clinical syndrome in an individual is not pathognomonic (distinctively characteristic of a particular disease or condition) but the occurrence of an epidemic with febrile disease, hemorrhagic fever, eye lesions, and encephalitus in different patients would be characteristics of Riff Valley fever. 

Indications 1) Heat damaging the blood network vessels, 2) amassed blood, retained stasis, 3) heat harassing the heart constructive. Various sorts of hemorrhage, infectious febrile diseases with hemorrhage, measles, septicemia, encephalitis, meningitis, toxemia, uremia, hepatic coma, thrombocytopenic purpura, blood or pus in the anterior chamber of the eye, iridocyclitis, glaucoma, acute leukemia, mental illness, and bums... 

Differential Diagnosis Thrombocytopenia (a condition in which there is an abnormally small number of platelets in the circulating blood) and an elevated aspartate aminotransferase (AST) may provide a clue to suggest CCHF is the culprit in the febrile (denoting or relating to fever) patient seen early in the course of infection. Other viral hemorrhagic fevers, meningococcemia, rickettsial diseases, and similar conditions may resemble full-... 

Other bacterial diseases that can be identified by IHC in formalin-fixed tissue include leptospirosis, a zoonosis that usually presents as an acute febrile syndrome but occasionally can have unusual manifestations such as pulmonary hemorrhage with respiratory failure or abdominal pain. Rabbit polyclonal antibodies... 

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