BACKGROUND: This study aimed to find markers to predict complicated cases in @entity3377 . @entity1 with and without complications were compared in terms of epidemiological, clinical and laboratory properties. METHODS: A total of 700 @entity1 hospitalised at the Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology were evaluated retrospectively. RESULTS: Of a total of 700 @entity1 , 383 (54.7%) were male and mean age was 41.5        17.0 years. Of the @entity1 , 517 (73.8%) were classified as acute cases. Complications occurred significantly less frequently in @entity697 (p   <   0.001). Increased @entity1851 ( @entity1851 ) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) occurred more frequently in @entity1 with complicated cases (p   =   0.005 and 0.021, respectively), whereas malaise, @entity925 and blood culture positivity occurred significantly less frequently in those cases (p   <0.001, <0.001 and 0.014, respectively). Fever at examination, @entity393 and @entity925 and blood culture negativity were statistically significant predictive factors for complicated @entity1 in multivariate analysis (p   <   0.001, for each). As compared to @entity1 without @entity11570 , @entity491 occurred more often in cases with @entity11570 (p   <   0.001); @entity1431 occurred more often in neurobrucellosis than in cases without neurobrucellosis (p   =   0.008). Of @entity1 who attended control regularly, 422 (98%) were treated successfully. All of the nine @entity1 who did not recover fully were cases with @entity3084 . CONCLUSIONS: Fever was the most significant predictive marker of complications. Other classical symptoms of @entity3377 like @entity925 and malaise were absent in most of the complicated cases. Blood culture was of limited value in the diagnosis of complicated cases most of the time.

A long-term survey of XXXX : Is there any marker to predict the complicated cases?

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patients', 'patients'] @entity697 :: ('MESH:D000208', 'Disease') :: ['acute infections'] @entity3377 :: ('MESH:D002006', 'Disease') :: ['brucellosis'] @entity3084 :: ('MESH:D014394', 'Disease') :: ['osteoarticular involvement'] @entity11570 :: ('MESH:D009920', 'Disease') :: ['orchitis'] @entity1431 :: ('MESH:D007970', 'Disease') :: ['leukopenia'] @entity393 :: ('MESH:D034381', 'Disease') :: ['loss of malaise'] @entity925 :: ('MESH:D063806', 'Disease') :: ['myalgia'] @entity491 :: ('MESH:D007964', 'Disease') :: ['leukocytosis'] @entity1851 :: ('1401', 'Gene') :: ['C-reactive protein', 'CRP']
@entity3377 :: (MESH:D002006,Disease) :: ['brucellosis']
