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This study compares febrile (\u226537.5 \u00b0C) and afebrile (&lt;37.5 \u00b0C) immunosuppressed patients admitted to the ED regarding clinical and laboratory parameters, including blood and urine tests, vital signs, final diagnoses, outcomes, and mortality. Materials and Methods: Eighty immunosuppressed patients aged 18\u201382 were prospectively evaluated from May 2019 to May 2020. Data on blood and urine tests, final diagnoses, outcomes, and mortality were recorded using a standardized form. Results: Among the 80 patients, 44 (55%) were female and 36 (45%) were male, with a mean age of 58.5 \u00b1 14.72 years. The febrile patients showed higher admission levels of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), interleukin-6 (IL-6), procalcitonin (PCT), and longer hospital stays than the afebrile patients. Mortality correlated with low albumin, oxygen saturation, platelet count, and total protein levels and elevated PCT and lipase levels. ICU admissions were linked to low albumin, total protein, and systolic blood pressure levels and elevated LDH, blood urea nitrogen, neutrophil count, and PCT levels. The fever status (febrile versus afebrile) had no significant relationship with the immunosuppression type, complaints, diagnoses, outcomes, or mortality. Final diagnoses varied by immunosuppression type: cholangitis in liver transplant recipients, respiratory infections in cancer patients, and urinary tract infections in kidney transplant recipients. Conclusions: Immunosuppressed patients can present with severe conditions, even without fever. Based on our findings, our study emphasizes that measuring PCT in immunosuppressed patients presenting to the emergency department with various complaints but without fever may help reduce the risk of delayed diagnosis.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina61050889","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,14]],"date-time":"2025-05-14T03:59:29Z","timestamp":1747195169000},"page":"889","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Prospective Evaluation of Clinical and Laboratory Profiles of Febrile and Afebrile Immunosuppressed Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"61","author":[{"given":"Tu\u011frul","family":"Topal","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Medicine Clinic of Necip Faz\u0131l City Hospital, 46050 Kahramanmara\u015f, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5778-9626","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Esra","family":"Pamuk\u00e7u","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, Firat University, 23119 Elaz\u0131\u011f, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Muhammet G\u00f6khan","family":"Turtay","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Medicine Clinic of Konya City Hospital, 42020 Konya, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"G\u00fcl\u015fen","family":"Yal\u00e7\u0131n","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Biochemistry, Turgut Ozal Medical Center, Inonu University, 44210 Malatya, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Harun K\u00fcr\u015fat","family":"\u015eahingil","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Medicine Clinic of Ye\u015filyurt Hasan \u00c7al\u0131k State Hospital, 44920 Malatya, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mehmet","family":"Sezer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Medicine Clinic of Besni State Hospital, 02300 Ad\u0131yaman, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Cangemi, M., Montico, B., Fa\u00e8, D.A., Steffan, A., and Dolcetti, R. 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