Browse the corpus
Walk the Even Hospital Database by book and chapter — the raw source passages that ground Ask, DDx, and the rest.
2 passages
©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Diagnostic algorithm for acute weight loss in children and adolescents* * Weight loss occuring over approximately one week. • Once fluid and physical exam status normalized, patients with dehydration should be evaluated as for patients who were NOT initially ill-appearing. Diagnostic algorithm for chronic weight loss in children and adolescents* * Chronic weight loss refers to decreased body weight over more than one to two weeks. • Fever may not always be present in patients with weight loss caused by malignancy. Δ Several chronic infections may cause weight loss in association with prolonged fever and nonspecific and variable clinical findings such as lymphadenopathy, hepatitis, and myalgias including brucellosis, leptospirosis, tularemia, and Epstein-Barr virus. For more information refer to UpToDate topics on fever of unknown origin.
©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Diagnostic algorithm for acute weight loss in children and adolescents* * Weight loss occuring over approximately one week. • Once fluid and physical exam status normalized, patients with dehydration should be evaluated as for patients who were NOT initially ill-appearing.