Question
Cytokines induced rise in body temperature is seen in?
A. Viral fever
B. Heat stroke
C. Thyroid storm
D. Malignant neurolept syndrome
E. Lymphoma
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Ans. A & E
Viral fever is due to cytokine induced rise in temperature.
Hyperthermia also has no agreed definition; it has been defined as a core temperature above 38.2 celisus, irrespective of the cause.
Others use it for the classification of those conditions that increase the body’s temperature above that set by the hypothalamus, and therefore specifically exclude those where fever is caused by pyrogens, being due to heat exposure or unregulated heat production in excess of heat loss.
Common causes include classical and exertional heat stroke, and drug-related illnesses (for example, malignant hyperthermia and neuroleptic syndrome