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Charcot's fever
Also known as:
Charcot’s intermittent hay fever
Associated persons:
Jean-Martin Charcot
Description:
Intermittent fever due to cholangitis and biliary obstruction (impacted gallstones); often associated with jaundice and abdominal discomfort. More frequent in females; onset in middle age. Recurrent episodes of dull or colicky pains in right hypochondrium radiating to the back, accompanied by chills and hyperthermia; nausea, vomiting, anorexia.
Bibliography:
- J. M. Charcot, François Alexis Albert Gombault (1844-1904)
Note sur les oblitérations du foie consecutive à la ligature du canal cholédoque.
Archives de physiologie normale et pathologique, Paris, 1876, 8: 272-299.
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