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Dr. Bodel, Dr. Harry A. Bernheim, Dr. Elisha Atkins and their colleagues at Yale showed that the net effect of fever is to promote and accelerate the inflammatory response, the body's first-line defense against infection.
The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of fever onset on endotoxin markers.
Therefore, the elevated expressions of these pro-inflammatory cytokines might cooperate to exacerbate the pre-existing subclinical lesions and accordingly promote recurrence and death in patients with postoperative fever, which might elucidate the detrimental effect of fever on prognosis in this analysis as well as other relevant reports [18], [31].
Several clinical studies indirectly advocate a beneficial effect of fever.
Interestingly, the inflammatory response was increased in these patients when compared with febrile patients, suggesting a protective effect of fever per se [ 34].
11 12 Furthermore, even if the effect of fever is discounted, the increased respiratory rate might not be categorised as tachypnoea, owing to inaccurate threshold values.
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"I think it must be the after-effects of fever".
As a young researcher at the Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Hospital in Boston in 1940, Dr. Freedberg became curious about stomach ulcers while studying the effects of fever on the heart and circulatory system when infections caused it to collapse.
To investigate the effects of fever on the haemodynamic parameters (pulse rate, arterial oxygen saturation, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and mean arterial blood pressure) of patients in a neurosurgical intensive care unit.
"It's shocking that we don't know more about the benefits versus the adverse effects of fever on higher animals," Mackowiak says.
Detrimental effects of fever include increased oxygen consumption.
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