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PMC8795075_01
Male
54
A 54-year-old male, who worked as a butcher of the slaughterhouse in Hunan Province, China, was admitted to the Neurology Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, due to recurrent fever for a duration of 8 days and convulsions with impaired consciousness for 3 days. He obtained s...
suid herpesvirus 1, encephalitis, endophthalmitis, next-generation sequencing, pseudorabies virus
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PMC6325082_01
Male
18
A previously healthy 18 year old male was admitted to hospital with a few days history of fever and shortness of breath. Chest X-ray showed bilateral interstitial infiltrates and empirical therapy for presumed community-acquired pneumonia was started. A more thorough history taking revealed symptoms of weight loss, let...
acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards), antitubercular agents, critical care, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ecmo), tuberculosis
A; CT scan after 18 days in the ICU. The patient developed bilateral pneumothoraces, pneumopericardium and pneumomediastinum after a trans-bronchial biopsy. Bilateral pleural tubes in-situ.
PMC6325082_01
Male
18
A previously healthy 18 year old male was admitted to hospital with a few days history of fever and shortness of breath. Chest X-ray showed bilateral interstitial infiltrates and empirical therapy for presumed community-acquired pneumonia was started. A more thorough history taking revealed symptoms of weight loss, let...
acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards), antitubercular agents, critical care, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ecmo), tuberculosis
A; CT scan after two weeks on VV-ECMO. Both lungs show numerous bullae and there were persistent bilateral pneumothoraces despite pleural tubes in-situ.
PMC6325082_01
Male
18
A previously healthy 18 year old male was admitted to hospital with a few days history of fever and shortness of breath. Chest X-ray showed bilateral interstitial infiltrates and empirical therapy for presumed community-acquired pneumonia was started. A more thorough history taking revealed symptoms of weight loss, let...
acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards), antitubercular agents, critical care, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ecmo), tuberculosis
A; CT scan after 46 days on ECMO. Both lungs have expanded with functional lung tissue visible again. This correlated with improvement clinically.
PMC7587464_01
Male
52
A 52-year-old male patient, presented with a three weeks history of right-sided chest pain, dyspnea, and fever. The patient denied having night sweats, weight loss, and anorexia. He had no contact with sick patients and no previous history of any respiratory illness. He was non-smoker, with no family history of maligna...
covid-19, lactate dehydrogenase, pleural biopsy, pleural effusion
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PMC4966646_01
Female
42
In 2013, a 42-year-old woman presented for the first time to Phramongkutklao Hospital, Thailand. She had suffered from floaters for 4 weeks and sudden loss of vision for a week in the right eye. She had no ocular pain or photophobia. Her left eye was not affected. The visual acuity was finger count 3' in the right eye ...
epstein-barr virus, acyclovir, retinal vasculitis, treatment
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PMC3597904_01
Male
58
Tubercular spinal epidural abscess (SEA) is is a devastating infectious disease. Its presence without associated osseous involvement may be considered an extremely rare scenario. We present a rare case of tubercular SEA complicated by paraplegia in an immune-competent 58-year-old male patient. MRI shows a multisegmenta...
antituberculosis chemotherapy, multisegmental tubercular, spinal epidural abscess, surgical decompression, tuberculosis
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PMC6159190_01
Male
35
A 35-year-old male patient, with persistent AF refractory to the pharmacologic treatment underwent RFA in our hospital. As a routine practice in our centre, the patient was assessed pre-procedurally by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) on the day of procedure to delineate anatomy of pulmonary veins and left atrium...
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PMC10249011_01
Female
34
A 34-year-old female patient was referred to our hospital for investigation of multiple pulmonary nodules, which had been discovered during a regular medical check-up. No abnormal findings were noted in the chest X-ray examination, 12 months prior to her referral. She was being treated with dupilumab subcutaneous injec...
drug-induced sarcoidosis-like reaction (disr), dupilumab, endobronchial ultrasound transbronchial needle biopsy (ebus-tbna), interleukin-13 (il-13), interleukin-4 (il-4), interleukin-5 (il-5), lymphadenopathy
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PMC9164910_01
Male
26
A diabetic 26-year-old man was admitted to our center for prolonged fever for 2 weeks associated with fatigue and general malaise, as well as loss of appetite. He had no history of rheumatic or congenital heart disease. At admission, the patient was febrile at 39 C and tachycardic. His lung sounds were clear, and no ca...
infective endocarditis, mitral regurgitation, papillary muscle rupture, surgery
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PMC9425893_01
Male
4
A 4 years 7 months old boy presented in clinic with history of abdominal pain and diarrhea on and off for 1 year. There was also history of failure to thrive and pallor. He received treatment from many local doctor but symptoms did not improve. He also complained of body aches and distended abdomen for last 2 months. H...
celiac disease, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, autoimmune hepatitis, child
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PMC8650666_01
Male
57
A 57-year-old male patient was admitted to our hand surgery department complaining of a progressive swelling located on the dorsoulnar side of the right wrist joint. The patient reported that the mass was started to grow for the past three months. On physical examination, there was no tenderness or erythema around the ...
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PMC9327614_01
Female
70
A 70-year-old woman presented to the outpatient service in our hospital because of continuously elevated carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels detected during a routine examination (from 9.43 to 28.02 ng/ml) for 10 months without any symptoms. During this period, no sign was found on abdominal CT and colonoscopy. To cl...
appendiceal tumor, case report, low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm, next-generation sequencing, pulmonary metastases
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PMC4958470_02
Female
18
However, no history of increased activity, agitation, restlessness, aimless wandering, increased libido, irrational talk, loss of appetite and sleep disturbances as well as hearing voices, social withdrawal, paucity of self-care, violent behavior, gathering of debris, or any abnormal behavior. Past psychiatric history ...
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PMC1185557_01
Male
30
A 30 year old professional Australian rugby league player presented complaining of diffuse neck pain following a hyperflexion and compressive neck injury while being tackled with his neck in maximal flexion. The injury occurred six days prior to presentation. There had been no significant previous history of injury or ...
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PMC9741541_01
Female
68
We report the case of a 68-year-old Swiss woman who presented to a peripheral hospital in Switzerland after consulting her general doctor about loss of weight (8 kg) in the last month, a maculopapular rash, fatigue, loss of appetite, palpitations, headaches, and cough for 2 weeks. The general doctor assigned her to the...
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PMC8789659_01
Female
54
A 54-year-old female patient, active smoker (35 pack-years), with a history of pulmonary tuberculosis in adolescence, was admitted to the Department of Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis due to productive cough, weakness, low exercise tolerance, weight loss (about 7 kg). Symptoms exacerbated during last 6 months. She was t...
aspergillosis, cancer, itraconazole, lung, personalized treatment
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PMC4386196_01
Male
2
A fifty two year old male was admitted via Emergency department with complaints of shortness of breath. Patient had history of intermittent episodes of shortness of breath for last two years with each episode being worsened from the previous one. The last episode started one month ago restricting his physical activity ...
counseling, lung mass, solitary fibrous tumor
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PMC9945360_01
Male
58
A 58-year-old male presented with continuous left-sided tinnitus for 30 years without hearing loss. He described tinnitus as a constant rhythmic sound that synchronized with his heartbeat. Three years before the presentation, the patient was experiencing worsening vertigo. Vertigo was not affected by positional changes...
chronic pulsatile tinnitus, davf, dural arteriovenous fistula, slow-flow, vertigo
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PMC9806487_01
Male
52
A 52-year-old man presented with complaints of intermittent fever associated with loss of appetite, loss of weight, and generalized malaise for a duration of 2 weeks. He also complained of shortness of breath on exertion without any bleeding manifestations or history of recurrent infections. There was no chronic cough,...
case report, streptococcus acidominimus, beta-lactam, native-valve infective endocarditis
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PMC6350018_01
Male
42
A 42-year-old male with a history significant for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, polyneuropathy, 1/2-pack-per-day smoker for 30 years was admitted to hospital for non-resolving cough and left-sided chest pain in November 2016. One month prior to this admission, he was in the Emergency Department ...
m szulgai, non-tuberculous mycobacteria, respiratory tract infection
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PMC2808614_04
Male
22
A 22 yr-old male patient was admitted with the multiple lymphadenopathy of the inguinal, cervical, and preauricular lymph nodes, the largest of them measuring 4 cm in diameter. A computed tomographic scan of the abdomen revealed diffuse hepatosplenomegaly and the enlarged paraaortic, common iliac, and external iliac ly...
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PMC7666621_01
Male
72
A 72-year-old male patient was admitted into our centre with large infected pseudoaneurysm (PSA) in the left groin (CRP: 209.4 mg/L; WBC: 7.7 x 109/L) (Figure 1). Patient's medical history revealed the following: aortobifemoral bypass (ABR) 2006, resection of the ABF's left branch for suspected infection at a different...
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PMC5878908_01
Female
13
A thirteen-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital due to recurrent right pneumonia throughout the previous three years. She lost 3 kg in body weight in the preceding weeks but did not have fever or night sweats. She was born in Israel to parents of North African descent, with her mother completing treatment for Hod...
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PMC10107958_01
Male
46
A 46-year-old male with a past medical history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, gout, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), morbid obesity, obesity hypoventilation syndrome, and hepatic steatosis presented to the emergency department (ED) with altered mental status, generalized weakness, severe heartburn, chest tigh...
dka, glasgow coma scale, hagma, acute pancreatitis, hyperglycemia, hypertriglyceridemia, hypothermic protocol, pancreatic encephalopathy, pressors
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PMC8645393_01
Male
14
A 14-year-old boy had been visited by a doctor due to the rectal insertion of a paintbrush, in which computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen was performed and demonstrated a 90 x 6 mm shaped object in the abdominopelvic cavity. He was referred to our hospital for further evaluation. He reported a history of rectal inse...
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PMC9656410_01
Female
39
A 39-year-old Caucasian female with a history of CF presented for a LASIK consultation. She was a very healthy marathon runner who was well-versed in her condition and its management. She had a history of dry eye disease (DED) and minor CF-related pulmonary issues, specifically exercise-induced bronchospasms. She was t...
cf, cftr, cftr-rd, lasik, prk, cornea, cystic fibrosis, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator-related disorder, refractive surgery
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PMC9656410_02
Male
25
A 25-year-old Caucasian male contact lens wearer, with a CFTR-RD diagnosis per patient since childhood, presented seeking refractive surgery. He did not complain of any ocular or systemic issues of CFTR-RD. The patient stated he was not taking CF medications and had no family history of CF. Preoperatively, his manifest...
cf, cftr, cftr-rd, lasik, prk, cornea, cystic fibrosis, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator-related disorder, refractive surgery
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PMC8024699_01
Female
51
A 51-year-old woman presented at another hospital four years ago with complaints of fever and back pain. A chest computed tomography (CT) image showed multiple nodular shadows (Fig. 1A), so she was referred to our hospital for further evaluation. She had no history of asthma, had never smoked, and had no significant fa...
corticosteroid, necrotizing sarcoid granulomatosis, necrotizing sarcoid granulomatosis (nsg), chest computed tomography (ct), recurrence, tracheal lesion
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PMC5340087_01
Female
42
A 42-year-old female patient presented with a history of diminution of vision in the right eye for fifteen days. She had no other systemic complaints. She had undergone hysterectomy for an indication of dysfunctional uterine bleeding a year and a half ago. On examination, she had best corrected visual acuity of 20/400 ...
cnvm, bevacizumab, choroidal granuloma, exudative retinal detachment, tuberculosis
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PMC7718120_01
Female
44
The patient is a 44-year-old woman with no medical nor familiar nor surgical history. She was referred by family physician for an isolated right back pain during 5 months with no fever nor haematuria nor a deterioration of his general condition. Physical examination revealed no abnormalities. The cytobacteriological ex...
tuberculosis, unusual presentations, urogenital tract
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PMC7718120_02
Male
48
A 48-year-old male, with smoking behaviour and no past medical nor surgical history, complaining of burning micturition and paroxysmal terminal haematuria evolving since last year. He showed no lower back pain and no deterioration of the general status. Tests are normal with Hb =13 g/l serum; creatinine =90 mumol/l and...
tuberculosis, unusual presentations, urogenital tract
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PMC5176218_01
Female
21
In May 2016, a 21-year-old woman traveled to Tokyo, Japan, from her home in Luanda. She began to exhibit a high fever on the first day of her visit. On the second day, she sought care at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine (Tokyo). She had been previously healthy and had not traveled out of Luanda in the...
africa, angola, arboviruses, chikungunya fever, viruses, yellow fever
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PMC6078559_01
Female
19
A 19-year-old single female patient was referred to the emergency room of King Abdulaziz University Hospital, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, complaining of generalized abdominal pain and vomiting of 2 days duration. The pain had started in the right lower quadrant, gradually increased in severity and became generalized. It w...
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PMC6038650_01
Male
61
A 61-year-old male patient presented to the emergency room (ER) on account of a 3-month history of hemoptysis as well as a 2-week history of right upper extremity weakness and numbness. Hemoptysis was associated with pleuritic right-sided chest pain as well as orthopnea and had been previously treated with two courses ...
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PMC3628229_01
Male
5
A five-year-old developmentally normal boy was hospitalized with fever on and off for more than three months. Fever was found to be high-grade and was associated with painless and clear discharge from both ears. There had been discharge offrank pus from his right ear with pain and impaired hearing in the week before ho...
child, miliary tuberculosis, otitis media, staphylococcus aureus, tuberculous
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PMC3963746_02
Male
9
Life since his operation has changed immeasurably for Mustapha - not only did he turn 9-years old on the day of the surgery, but the young boy is now attending school full time and is able, once again, to play with friends. He is particularly keen on football and hopes one day to emulate the stars of his favourite team...
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PMC9356742_04
Female
48
A 48 year old female remarked: I accessed information on products through social media because some shops in Messina had created online WhatsApp groups advertising the goods they had in stock and I would send this information to the runners so that they could buy goods from these shops. The runners were connected to t...
covid-19 pandemic, informal cross border trade, livelihood outcome, lockdown, sdgs
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PMC9149196_02
Male
50
A 50-year-old male presented with a 2-month history of worsening breathlessness and a chronic productive cough. He also reported general malaise, weight loss, and night sweats, but no haemoptysis or chest pain. The patient was an active smoker (30+ pack years) with long-standing COPD and a history of crack cocaine use ...
atypical mycobacteria, case studies, imaging, non-tuberculous mycobacteria, respiratory infection
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PMC7189307_01
Male
52
A 52-year-old male presented to the emergency department with four days of sore throat, odynophagia, and productive cough with clear-white, blood-tinged sputum. He also noted unintentional weight loss of approximately 10 pounds over the past three months but denied dyspnea, night sweats, fever, chills, or prior pulmona...
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PMC5814372_01
Male
68
A 68-year-old Caucasian male presented for an infectious disease consult with intermittent fever, night sweats, atrial flutter, and a productive cough of 6-month duration. His sputum was clear/white in the morning and improved during the day although he reported that his sputum sometimes became gray during the day. The...
atypical mycobacteria, mycobacterium celatum, non-tuberculous mycobacteria
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PMC9853933_01
Male
80
An 80-year-old man was diagnosed with wrist and knee pain 2 years ago and was treated by a family care physician. Before 1 year, computed tomography (CT) revealed multiple pulmonary nodules, and the patient underwent transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB), which showed no evidence of tuberculosis, fungus, bacterial infectio...
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PMC6532487_01
Male
57
A 57-year-old Indian male with HIV-positive status was admitted to our hospital with chief complaints of large-volume watery stools without blood or mucus, 3-4 times a day for 4 months with recent exacerbation for 1 week. This was also associated with nausea, loss of appetite, significant weight loss, generalized weakn...
cachexia, esophagogastroduodenoscopy, prednisolone
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PMC9310207_01
Female
12
A 12-year-old non-consanguineous girl with no medical history presented to the emergency department for a bilateral acute vision loss with conjunctival hemorrhage evolving for 2 days. The family reported that the child had poor compliance with the preventive measures against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during t...
covid-19, pims-ts, sars-cov-2, acute glomerulonephritis, acute kidney injury, acute vision loss, bilateral serous retinal detachment, conjunctival hemorrhage
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PMC3714089_01
Male
63
A 63-year-old man with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and cigarette smoking was admitted to the hospital following episodes of massive hemoptysis in the previous 24 hours. Admission laboratory work did not reveal a coagulopathy or thrombocytopenia. A chest radiograph demonstrated a...
endobronchial techniques, fiberoptic bronchoscopy, hemoptysis
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PMC3714089_03
Male
57
A 57-year-old gentleman with a history of aortic valve replacement on chronic Coumadin as well as history of pulmonary tuberculosis who presented to the hospital after coughing up copious amounts of blood for 2 days. His international normalized ratio was supratherapeutic at 3.3, but the rest of his admission laborator...
endobronchial techniques, fiberoptic bronchoscopy, hemoptysis
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PMC6945678_01
Male
3
This three-year-old child initially presented with sub-acute respiratory symptoms, fever, weight loss and right upper lobe opacification. Pulmonary tuberculosis was considered because it is endemic in our country. TB diagnosis is difficult in children and frequently relies on an algorithm relying on characteristic hist...
invasive aspergillosis, child, empyema
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PMC5933027_01
Female
16
A 16-year-old female presented to the clinic complaining of progressive worsening of dysphagia to solid foods with sensation of fullness in the chest and sour taste in the mouth but denies heartburn or chest pain. She did not have any weight loss. Her symptoms were unresponsive to PPI therapy started by her primary car...
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PMC8077472_01
Female
45
A 45-year-old Greek female patient presented in the 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece, with a 3-day history of bilateral blurry vision and mild ocular discomfort. Past medical history included a hysterectomy for polycystic ovary sy...
aflibercept, anti-vascular endothelial growth factor, panuveitis, peripapillary choroidal neovascular membrane, ranibizumab, sarcoidosis
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PMC8585998_01
Female
2
A 2-year-old girl initially presented at the hospital during an episode of recurrent suppurative tonsillitis. Physical examination revealed moderately enlarged tonsils but no signs of systemic or severe infection. Her complete blood count (CBC) showed a marked decrease in ANC (0.42 x 109/L [normal range: 2.4-4.8 x 109/...
csf3r, biallelic heterozygous, rhgm-csf, severe congenital neutropenia, treatment
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PMC10327559_01
Female
0
A 13-month-old girl presented with an asymmetric weakness and hypertonia in the four limbs (both arms and legs), which appeared more severe on the right side than on the left side, with right head deviation. She could only perform some abnormal dystonic movements with the right limbs because her left limbs were almost ...
behcet’s disease, acquired demyelinating syndromes (adss), children, early onset, magnetic resonance imaging
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PMC9109270_01
Male
23
This drug-related adverse reaction to Prothionamide happened in a 23-year-old patient diagnosed with disseminated DRTB involving the central nervous system (CNS) and lymph nodes and put on a second-line anti-TB (tuberculosis) regimen. He was diagnosed with pulmonary TB a year before and was on anti-TB for 6 months. Aft...
prothionamide, acute interstitial nephritis, drug-induced acute interstitial nephritis
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PMC4608167_01
Female
68
A 68-year-old female patient complaining of vaginal itching and pain presented a vulvar mass, vaginal invasion at gynecological examination on December 2011. She denied tobacco smoking. Tumoral biopsy diagnosed vulvar squamous cell carcinoma. Staging exams included pelvic MRI, abdominal and thoracic computed tomography...
biopsy, multiple pulmonary nodules, neoplasms, tuberculosis
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PMC4608167_02
Female
73
A 73-year-old female patient, previously diagnosed with diabetes mellitus and hypertension, sought medical attention because of jaundice and abdominal pain. Abdominal CT scan revealed a periampular mass measuring 4,7cm at its longest axis and endoscopy confirmed a necrotic lesion in the duodenal papilla. Biopsy was per...
biopsy, multiple pulmonary nodules, neoplasms, tuberculosis
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PMC9261328_01
Female
65
Metformin is a biguanide drug widely prescribed for the treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2D) worldwide. Metformin has been used in the clinic for over 6 decades and has an excellent safety record thus far. The medical history of metformin dates back to the 17th century, where the extracts of French lilac (Galega officina...
aging, biological age, chronological age, geroprotectors, interventions, public
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PMC4781949_01
Female
57
A 57-year-old female, not smoker, was admitted on March 29, 2014, with hemoptysis and history of recurrent sinusitis for one year. She had also positive history of recurrent eye inflammation epistaxis, dizziness, and left ear dry perforation. The right ear and audio assessment were normal. There was no arthritis. Other...
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PMC4998259_01
Male
63
In July of 2015, a 63-year-old man with 9-month history of nephrotic syndrome was admitted to Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital because of multiple subcutaneous abscesses with intermittent fever for 20 days. Twenty days prior to admission, 2 subcutaneous abscesses presented on his left lower limb. The subcutaneous absce...
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PMC10011863_01
Female
54
A 54-year-old woman with a 6-week history of progressive dyspnea and productive cough presented with the radiologic suspicion of a lung carcinoma of the right upper lobe (Figure 1A,1B). Relevant secondary diagnosis was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) GOLD grade 2 with excessive nicotine consumption (almost...
endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (ebus-tbna), case report, mediastinal lymph nodes, mediastinitis, pyopericardium
implicates a NSCLC of the right upper lobe with tumor-positive lymph node station 4R (provisional TNM classification: T2 N2 Mx). NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; CT, computed tomography; IV, intravenous; TNM, tumor node metastasis.
PMC10011863_01
Female
54
A 54-year-old woman with a 6-week history of progressive dyspnea and productive cough presented with the radiologic suspicion of a lung carcinoma of the right upper lobe (Figure 1A,1B). Relevant secondary diagnosis was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) GOLD grade 2 with excessive nicotine consumption (almost...
endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (ebus-tbna), case report, mediastinal lymph nodes, mediastinitis, pyopericardium
an organized mediastinal fluid collection , indicating a complicated pericardial effusion with possible mediastinal abscess formation. Additional pleural effusion reflected functional heart failure. EBUS-TBNA, endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration; CT, computed tomography; IV, intravenous.
PMC5357645_01
Female
70
In a case study of a 70-year-old overweight woman with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, KD was initiated by her treating physician. The patient remained on KD for 12 months and reportedly had no recurrences of auditory or visual hallucinations, and the patient lost weight. The patient reported eating mainly lean proteins ...
epilepsy, ketogenic diet, ketones, mental disorders, psychiatry
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PMC3012839_01
Male
39
A 39-yr-old male patient was admitted to our liver intensive care unit (LICU) for acute liver failure on August 20, 2009. The patient worked at a leather-manufacturing plant, where he cleaned animal coats by using PCE. The patient informed us that he occasionally did not wear protective devices during this procedure an...
drug-induced liver injury, liver failure, acute, plasma exchange, tetrachloroethylene
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PMC4078457_01
Male
21
A 21-year-old Japanese male presented at the outpatient department with sporadic nausea, abdominal discomfort, and worsening headache. Cysto-peritoneal (CP) and VP shunts were implanted 11 months after birth by another doctor for the treatment of hydrocephalus due to a suprasellar arachnoid cyst. His VP shunt had been ...
abdominal complication, cerebrospinal fluid pseudocyst, shunt malfunction, tuberculous peritonitis, ventriculo-peritoneal shunt
CT after insertion of the ventriculo-pleural shunt. Brain CT showing decreased lateral ventricle volume (a, b).
PMC4078457_01
Male
21
A 21-year-old Japanese male presented at the outpatient department with sporadic nausea, abdominal discomfort, and worsening headache. Cysto-peritoneal (CP) and VP shunts were implanted 11 months after birth by another doctor for the treatment of hydrocephalus due to a suprasellar arachnoid cyst. His VP shunt had been ...
abdominal complication, cerebrospinal fluid pseudocyst, shunt malfunction, tuberculous peritonitis, ventriculo-peritoneal shunt
CT after insertion of the ventriculo-pleural shunt. Brain CT showing decreased lateral ventricle volume (a, b).
PMC4078457_01
Male
21
A 21-year-old Japanese male presented at the outpatient department with sporadic nausea, abdominal discomfort, and worsening headache. Cysto-peritoneal (CP) and VP shunts were implanted 11 months after birth by another doctor for the treatment of hydrocephalus due to a suprasellar arachnoid cyst. His VP shunt had been ...
abdominal complication, cerebrospinal fluid pseudocyst, shunt malfunction, tuberculous peritonitis, ventriculo-peritoneal shunt
CT after insertion of the ventriculo-pleural shunt. Chest CT showing the distal part of the shunt (arrow), a small amount of cerebrospinal fluid in the thorax and the distal tube of the previous CP shunt (arrowhead) (c).
PMC3033076_01
Male
74
On March 23, 2003, a 74-year-old immunocompromised man was transferred to our ICU from a hospital where the original cluster of Toronto's SARS cases occurred. The patient originally had signs and symptoms consistent with a presumptive diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia. Before transfer, SARS was excluded from th...
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PMC4782475_01
Female
12
A 12-year-old girl was referred to the hospital for a 4-month's history of a dry cough, night sweats, persistent fever, marked weakness and weight loss of 3 kg. All these symptoms failed to respond to conventional antibiotics and inhaled corticosteroids. The patient was free from underlying diseases and had a record of...
child, takayasu arteritis, tuberculosis
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PMC8801678_01
Male
7
A 7-year-old castrated male Poodle dog was referred for evaluation of persistent lymphocytosis that had lasted for more than 20 months and gradually worsened. Specific infections were ruled out in that canine SNAP 4Dx (IDEXX Laboratories, Westbrook, ME) for heartworm, Lyme, Ehrlichia canis, Anaplasma phagocytophilum wa...
chlorambucil, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, dog, flow cytometry, imatinib, lymphocytosis
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PMC3615910_01
Male
45
A 45 year-old man presented to the ER with 15 months history of cough productive of minimal whitish sputum without frank or streaks of blood, low grade fever, generalized muscle and joint pains. He had no night sweats but had anorexia and 4-6 lbs weight loss in past 6 months. Patient admitted smoking cigarettes (1/2 pa...
hiv, bronchogenic obliterans, pneumonia
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PMC5566360_01
Male
17
A 17-year-old male presented to the hospital emergency with fever associated with chills for the past 5-6 days. He also had complaints of abdominal pain and vomiting. The patients did not have any complaints of rash, joint pains, cough, difficulty in breathing, and any feature suggestive of urinary tract infection. The...
dengue, drug resistance genes, mixed malaria infections, treatment failure
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PMC9816402_01
Male
68
A 68-year-old man from a mountainous area in Hebei Province, China, presented to the Rheumatology and Immunization Department of The 980th Hospital in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province on February 16, 2022 with fever, sweating, and fatigue. He had previously been hospitalized in Jingxing County Hospital of Traditional Chine...
china, bone marrow smear, early diagnosis, highthroughput sequencing, kala-azar, metagenomic next-generation sequencing, visceral leishmaniasis
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PMC8415358_01
Female
33
A 33-year-old black woman at 34 weeks and 4 days of gestation was admitted on October 15, 2020, with a diagnosis of fetal death 14 days after a positive RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2. The patient (gravida 2, para 1) was 1.80 m tall, weighed 87.7 kg (body mass index (BMI) 27.1 kg/m2), and had a history of previous bariatric sur...
covid-19, sars-cov-2, fetal death, mother-to-child transmission, placental thromboembolism, pregnancy
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PMC8016370_01
Male
27
A 27-year-old male construction worker sustained 15.5% total body surface area (TBSA) partial-thickness thermal burns from a flash fire at an industrial site (Figure 1A). The time interval from accident to surgery was 48 hours. After removal of blisters and aseptic cleansing, the lateral aspect of his right forearm (ap...
biobrane, burns excision, partial-thickness burns, skin substitute, wound healing
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PMC8016370_02
Female
57
A 57-year-old female waitress presented six days after sustaining 10% TBSA partial-thickness thermal burns from being scalded by boiling soup at work. After debridement of blisters, her right thigh and upper shin (6% TBSA) and left calf (4% TBSA) were found to be poorly blanching with multiple areas of fixed-staining (...
biobrane, burns excision, partial-thickness burns, skin substitute, wound healing
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PMC9577390_01
Female
29
A 29-year-old woman, G2P1A0, was brought to the emergency department (ED) in an unconscious state. She had a history of fever and decreased urine output for 4-5 days. She also had a recent history of a full-term normal vaginal delivery 9days before at a local hospital without any antenatal or intranatal complications. ...
postpartum, extrapontine, flaccid paralysis, hypernatremia, osmotic demyelination syndrome, pregnancy
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PMC5840185_01
Female
39
A 39-year-old never-smoker female without prior relevant medical history was admitted to the hospital with progressive symptoms of abdominal pain, dyspnea, and bilateral leg edema. A computed tomography scan revealed pericardial effusion; bilateral pleural effusion; a 3 cm mass in the right lung; hilar, mediastinal, an...
eml4-alk, ltbp1, nsclc, crizotinib, lung cancer, targeted therapy
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PMC3335363_01
Male
80
An 80-year-old man, without an agricultural background and with a history of fully remitted prostate cancer, hypernephroma 15 years before and a coronary artery bypass graft 6 years previously, was admitted to a tertiary care hospital for a subacute gait disorder suspicious for non-pressure hydrocephalus, and slight di...
cerebrospinal fluid culture, fosfomycin, mycobacterium caprae, mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, tuberculous meningitis
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PMC8310911_01
Male
51
On December 14, 2017, a 51-year-old man visited our General Internal Medicine department for finding a hepatic mass without any discomfort during health examination. The entire process of diagnosis and treatment is briefly depicted in Figure 1. The patient claimed no history of hepatitis or TB and no family history of ...
diagnosis, disseminated tuberculosis, extrapulmonary tuberculosis, immunocompetence, metagenomic next-generation sequencing
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PMC2718204_01
Female
42
A 42-year-old woman who two months earlier had undergone surgical drainage of a psoas abscess was found to have relapsed. Cultures of the abscess had been positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but chest radiographic finding were normal. The patient took anti-tuberculous drugs (isoniazid, rifampin and pyrazinamide) f...
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PMC2718204_02
Male
41
A 41-year-old man admitted to our hospital because of diffuse abdominal pain lasting five days was referred to our department due to rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm during surgery. Chest radiographic finding were normal, but abdominal CT showed an irregular low-attenuation mass, about 3x4x5 cm in size and with ...
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PMC5662534_01
Male
32
A 32-year-old male, a driver by occupation, initially presented to the psychiatry emergency services and he was subsequently referred to the neurology emergency services. The patient was accompanied by his wife, who gave the history of involuntary movements of the face and mouth for 1 month along with abnormal vocaliza...
syphilis, dyskinesia, movement disorders, neurosyphilis
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PMC10310330_01
Male
53
The patient is a 53-year-old Filipino man diagnosed with sigmoid adenocarcinoma with de novo liver metastasis in June 2021. He initially underwent laparoscopic sigmoidectomy to relieve his partial gut obstruction. Although it is not the recommended first-line treatment for metastatic colon cancer, the patient was then ...
case report, colorectal cancer, metastasis, parotid gland
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PMC6197082_01
Male
24
The body of a 24-years-old male was found in a woodland, in North Western Italy, in the middle of July, 34 days after his disappearance. The body was totally suspended from a branch of a big tree by a leather belt (Figure 1(A)). The feet were at about 1 m above the ground. At the drip zone, the ground directly beneath ...
forensic science, decomposition, forensic entomology, forensic taphonomy, hanging, postmortem interval
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PMC6197082_02
Male
15
The body of a 15-years-old male was found in a forest, in the Centre of Italy, in a suburban area of Florence (Tuscany) at the beginning of October. The man was last seen alive at the end of August, 34 days before his body discovery. The body, fully clothed, was found lying on his left side in a wooded shady area (Figu...
forensic science, decomposition, forensic entomology, forensic taphonomy, hanging, postmortem interval
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PMC9339632_01
Male
7
A 7-years-old boy was admitted to the Infectious Department of our Hospital on June 21 of 2021 due to "repeated fever for over half a month". Half a month ago, the child had repeated fever without obvious inducement, whose body temperature was up to 39 C. Before the fever, he did not have symptoms like chills, convuls...
diagnosis, partial nephrectomy, pediatric, treatment, xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis
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PMC10085645_01
Male
71
This patient was a 71-year-old male who was receiving nivolumab infusions for treatment of urothelial carcinoma who presents with acute kidney injury. The patient's initial cancer diagnosis was 20 months' prior, and bladder biopsy had revealed high grade carcinoma with lymphovascular invasion. The patient was initially...
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PMC9845691_01
Male
54
A 54-year-old male presented with disturbance of consciousness, psychiatric symptoms and behavioral change, cognitive impairment, seizure and hypotension for 11 days. His family history was unremarkable. Exposure to toxic substances was denied. The day before his first symptom, a resection of his right colon was perfor...
amphiphysin, appendiceal goblet cell carcinoma, paraneoplastic neurological syndromes, pathological findings, tremors
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PMC3350298_01
Male
37
The patient is a 37-year-old right-handed Caucasian man who was in his usual state of health until December 2006 when he started to notice that his feet were cold, numb, and had a tingling sensation (described as pins and needles) from the ankles down. In a few weeks, the tingling sensation progressed up to the knees w...
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PMC10497360_01
Male
49
A 49-year-old male bus driver presented with a five-month history of dyspnea on exertion of insidious onset associated with easy fatiguability and non-radiating central chest pain with associated palpitations. The dyspnea waxed and waned but never completely resolved. He had no history of chronic cough. On examination,...
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PMC4299425_01
Male
22
Caucasian, male, 22-year old patient sought treatment complaining about his dentofacial esthetics. As shown in his initial photographs (Fig 3), he presented Class III malocclusion, maxillary deficiency and mandibular excess. His oral health-related quality of life was assessed by means of the OHIP-14 which scored 31 po...
orthodontics, orthognathic surgery, quality of life
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PMC5474534_01
Male
18
An 18-year-old Afghan man with a history of cystolithotomy seven years ago in Kabul, Afghanistan, was admitted to Shohada-e-Tajrish Hospital with the complaint of 1-year intermittent total gross painless hematuria with amorphous clots. There was no conclusive history from the patient, and no medical records could be ob...
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PMC6398415_01
Male
17
A 17-year-old male presented with chronic abdominal pain of 15 months duration. The patient reported that pain was more prominent in the right lower quadrant, stabbing in nature, episodic, aggravated by food intake and not relieved with antacids and proton pump inhibitors. The pain was rated as high as 10 on the numeri...
celiac plexus block, diagnostic, median arcuate ligament syndrome, pediatric
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PMC4394057_01
Male
51
A 51-year-old male, known to have BD with a history of popliteal aneurysm surgery, presented with abdominal pain mostly related to food intake. In routine echocardiography, a large mobile mass (27mm x 14mm) in the right atrium was reported, which had an origin from the coronary sinus - albeit without any tricuspid dysf...
aneurysm, false, aorta, behcet syndrome, celiac artery
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PMC4446677_01
Male
17
A 17 year-old man was referred to our clinic with a 2 years history of persistent right groin pain and inability to return to his sport activity. The onset of pain was sudden after trying to kick the ball forcefully during a competitive game of football. In his medical history, he was treated as a case of adductor stra...
anterior inferior iliac spine, avulsion fracture, extra-articular hip impingement, femoroacetabular impingement
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PMC10079944_01
Female
37
A 37-year-old non-smoker Hispanic woman without relevant medical background sought medical attention due to a 6-week history of cough, dyspnea, general weakness, and intermittent fever in March 2018. A computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a left lung solid lesion and ipsilateral pleural effusion. Histopathological an...
egfr-tki, case report, lung adenocarcinoma, metastatic disease, pregnancy
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PMC8055601_01
Male
24
A 24-year-old male patient, who was previously healthy, presented to the Hamad General Hospital complaining of progressive left-sided pleuritic chest pain lasting for a few weeks. He noticed two large lumps in front of his chest, precisely at the same site of the pain slowly increasing in size over four months. He expe...
chest wall mass, cold abscess, extrapulmonary tuberculosis, musculoskeletal tuberculosis, rib fracture
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PMC5442345_01
Female
68
Our case is a 68-year-old female with a past medical history of hyperlipidemia and insulin-controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus who presented with right knee pain and swelling. She denied any history of trauma. Radiograph and magnetic resonance imaging were concerning for GCTB. She underwent curettage and cementation of...
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PMC9664009_01
Female
78
In the beginning of March 2021, a 78-year-old woman with history of bronchial asthma and diabetes was referred to our hospital with bilateral hearing loss for a week. She was a never smoker. Physical examination findings were as follows: body temperature, 37.0 C; pulse rate, 78/min; respiratory rate, 20/min; and blood...
anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody, endobronchial ultrasonography with a guide-sheath, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, non-tuberculous mycobacteria-associated pulmonary disease, otitis media with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis
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PMC9483779_01
Female
22
The patient was a 22-year-old Asian woman who presented with headache, nausea, and vomiting, which had started one day before admission. Fever, dyspnea, chest pain, and cough were absent. She denied the use of oral contraceptives, corticosteroids, hormonal replacement therapy, erythropoietin, or antipsychotic drugs. Sh...
cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, direct oral anticoagulant, edoxaban, pulmonary thromboembolism, pulmonary tuberculosis, venous thrombosis
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PMC4230886_03
Female
34
On October 2, the day of Patient 2's death, contact tracing revealed that an ICU nurse (Patient 3) who cared for Patient 1 was admitted to a private hospital west of Johannesburg, close to her family home. Patient 3 was a 34 year old black female who became ill on September 25 (ID-1), nine days after caring for Patient...
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PMC4230886_04
Female
38
Patient 4 was a 38 year old black female with a history of AIDS and a CD4 count of 250. She worked as a cleaner and was involved in the disinfection of the hospital room where Patient 1 died, which was performed wearing a scrub gown, surgical mask, plastic visor and surgical latex gloves. No specific exposures to blood...
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