Predictors of post-stroke fever and infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract Background Fever after stroke is common, and often caused by infections. In the current study, we aimed to test the hypothesis that pneumonia, urinary tract infection and all-cause fever (thought to include at least some proportion of endogenous fever) have different predicting factors, sin...

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Main Authors: Maja Wästfelt, Yang Cao, Jakob O. Ström
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-04-01
Series:BMC Neurology
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12883-018-1046-z