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Symptom/Finding
delirium
Description
"A state of temporary mental confusion and clouded consciousness resulting from high fever, intoxication, or shock and characterized by anxiety, tremors, hallucinations, delusions, and incoherence" [American Heritage Dictionary]
Category
Neurological
ICD-9 Code
293.0
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Diseases
Diseases associated with this finding or symptom:
Anthrax
Arenaviral hemorrhagic fevers (S. America)
B-virus meningoencephalitis
Ebola-Marburg viral diseases
Ehrlichiosis
Encephalopathy, acute toxic
Fumigants, acute toxic effect
Kyasanur forest disease
Leptospirosis
Malaria
Meningococcal infection
Naegleriasis
Organophosphate & carbamates, acute
Plague
Rabies
Relapsing fever
Rift valley fever
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Smallpox
Tularemia
Typhoid fever
Typhus, mite-borne scrub
Viral encephalitides, mosquito-borne
West Nile virus infection
Yellow fever
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Last updated: September, 2008