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Abstract
With the purpose of studying etiological factors of postoperative pyrexia in emergency abdominal operations, 60 patients were selected free from non surgical preoperative infection and were assessed before, during and after operation.
Those patients have been submitted either major or minor operations according to their clinical presentation Groripl 30 patients underwent emergency minor abdominal operation.
Groupll 30 patients underwent emergency major abdominal operations Temperature chart was done for every patient and it was recorded every six hours during the whole period of follow up.
The results were the following
1. All the patients in both groups developed pyrexia once or more during the postoperative period of follow-up.
2. In group I, 24 patients (80%) developed postoperative complications that could be taken as etiological factors of their postoperative pyrexia and patients (20%) did not develop any complication. In group II, 30 patients (100%) developed complications