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PMC4217353_01
Male
66
A 66-year-old male presented to his primary care physician with the right upper chest pain, progressive malaise, generalized weakness, loss of appetite, and a 10 lb weigh loss for 2 months. Past medical history was significant for rheumatoid arthritis, chronic pulmonary obstructive disease, and 60-pack-year of cigarett...
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PMC9858565_01
Female
8
An 8-year-old girl presented to a hospital pediatric emergency department with a 1-week history of cough, fever for 4 days, and dyspnea for 5 h, without any response to oral cephalosporins. When she was admitted to the hospital, she had shortness of breath, 50 beats per minute, fever, 38.3 C, tachycardia, 154 beats pe...
acute respiratory distress syndrome, diffuse alveolar hemorrhage, mngs, mycoplasma pneumoniae, pediatric, veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
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PMC3959514_01
Male
47
A 47-year-old Indian male, presented with high-grade fever and left-sided pleuritic chest pain of 3-week duration. He complained of anorexia and significant weight loss of 6 kg in the last 1 month. There were no other respiratory symptoms, jaundice or bowel symptoms. The patient was diagnosed with diabetes and was on i...
burkholderia pseudomallei, splenic abscess, melioidosis
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PMC3785362_01
Female
35
The patient was a 35 year old woman with an extensive past medical history including pemphigus vulgaris. She had a previous diagnosis of Castleman disease confirmed by pathology following excision approximately 10 years earlier. She subsequently developed bronchiolitis obliterans and underwent bilateral lung transplant...
castleman disease, first pass perfusion, gadolinium
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PMC3569976_01
Male
75
We report a 75-year-old male with a 10-year history of progressive OT and unsuccessful medical treatment. He used a portable stool or cane when he had to stand in place. Upon standing, he would have the immediate onset of fine tremors in both legs. He could only stand in place for 20 seconds at most before needing to s...
orthostatic tremor, deep brain stimulation, thalamus
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PMC7171607_04
Female
62
A 62-year-old female patient presented to the emergency department with chief complaints of breathlessness for 10 years, cough with expectoration, and lower limb swelling since last 4 days. The breathlessness was associated with history of orthopnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea (PND), and palpitations. There was a gr...
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PMC7171607_05
Male
73
A 73-year-old male patient presented to the Pulmonary Medicine OPD with chief complaints of fever, difficulty in breathing, palpitations, and increased frequency of urination since the last 5 days. The fever was low grade in nature and was associated with evening rise of temperature. He also complained of passing blood...
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PMC6745118_01
Male
5
A forty-five-year-old male resident of Saile Sikhar Municipality, Ward no. 5, Darchula District, was admitted to Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital on 24 January 2019. Prior to visitation to our center, the patient had already been treated with LAMB (5 mg/kg daily for 3 days) against the first episode wh...
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PMC9087846_03
Female
5
A 5-year-old female spayed, 18 kg German Shepherd-cross dog developed acute behavior changes, panting, and ataxia. CBC, serum biochemistry panel, urinalysis, thoracic, and abdominal radiographs were unremarkable. Toxin exposure was considered possible. Activated charcoal with sorbitol (43 mL), IV lipid emulsion therapy...
biopsy, bromethalin, canine, corticospinal tract, desmethylbromethalin, leukoencephalopathy, restricted diffusion
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PMC9360766_01
Male
31
For this observational study we had the participation of a 31-year-old client diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) for the last 8 years; and a 35-year-old clinical psychologist (a master's degree in General Health Psychology and a master's degree in Behavior Therapy). Both participants came from a publi...
clinical psychology, pattern analysis, principle-based therapy, process-based therapy, sequential analysis, verbal interaction
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PMC5851328_01
Male
91
A 91-year-old man presented with abdominal pain and was followed up to 2 days. On physical examination, periumbilical tenderness was found, but there were no peritoneal irritation signs or other obvious abnormal findings of the ears, nose, or skin. The blood test results showed a high inflammatory reaction (white blood...
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PMC9036100_01
Female
28
Case: The 28-year-old client, Julia, comes to therapy with depressive symptoms that she has experienced since her teenage years. Julia has been dating Ben for 2 years, and they plan to move in together. Julia works as a dental assistant in a large practice. She is the oldest of four sisters and was used to helping her ...
active inference, cognitive behavioral therapy, embodied cognition, emotional survival, exploration-exploitation-dilemma, free energy, safety regulation, therapeutic relationship
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PMC10149671_01
Male
10
A 10-year-old male consulted our ophthalmology department due to bilateral blurred vision for one week. He had experienced a 1-week episode of flu-like symptoms, including fever and general malaise, 1 month before the ocular presentation. The best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was 0.025 (both eyes, BE). The intraocula...
purtscher-like retinopathy, atmosphere absolute, best-corrected visual acuity, frosted branch angiitis, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, optical coherence tomography, positive antinuclear antibody
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PMC4845404_01
Male
27
A 27 -years old male sustained transverse fracture of the patella with gross displacement while playing football. The fracture was subsequently stabilized with tension band wiring with two Kirschner wires (K-wire) & figure of eight stainless steel wire. The immediate post operative period was uneventful. He was dischar...
difficult, fracture, modified ilizarov, patella
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PMC9538506_01
Male
69
A 69-year-old non-smoker man was admitted to Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China) on 11 April 2022 and complained of cough and expectoration with bloody sputum for 2 weeks. In March 2022, he visited a local hospital due to cough and expectoration with blo...
egfr mutation, kras, tp53, case report, pulmonary enteric adenocarcinoma
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PMC10183654_01
Male
48
A 48-year-old male patient was admitted to the hospital for paroxysmal distention and pain in the middle and upper abdomen for 1 week. One week before admission, the patient experienced sudden distension and pain in the middle and upper abdomen. The specific abdominal pain site was not constant. The attack was paroxysm...
classification, diagnosis, medical history, paragonimiasis, serological antibodies, treatment
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PMC6507253_01
Female
11
An 11-year-old, 6.6 kg, female spayed Maltese, presented comatose to the University of Queensland Veterinary Teaching Hospital within 30 minutes of blunt force trauma after being hit by a car. The dog was previously well with no current medications. Initial physical examination revealed the dog to be laterally recumben...
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PMC7525287_01
Female
56
A 56-year-old Iranian woman presented with a one-month history of low-grade fever with generalized malaise, loss of weight, and loss of appetite, and she had noticed swelling of neck glands for the similar duration. She denied any joint pains, increased hair loss, or oral ulcers. She did not have chronic cough, sore th...
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PMC5750514_01
Female
4
A 4-year-old female presented to the Pediatric Emergency Department at Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, SK, Canada, with 4 days of worsening cough and increased work of breathing and one day of anuria. Her initial vital signs showed a temperature of 37.5 degrees Celsius, pulse rate of 125 beats per minutes, bloo...
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PMC8226409_01
Female
31
A 31-year-old healthy woman presented with complaint of reduced hearing in her left ear for four months which was associated with tinnitus in her left ear. There was no ear pain, discharge, or fever. She denied any nasal symptoms, chronic cough, or weight loss, and any previous contact with TB patients. She was previou...
eustachian tube, tuberculosis, unilateral hearing loss
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PMC9358455_01
Male
75
A 75-year-old man visited the Department of General Medicine, Aichi Medical University Hospital, with a complaint of dyspnea on exertion of the modified Medical Research Council dyspnea scale (mMRC) 1. He had hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus but no previous history of smoking or respiratory diseases. Because h...
ggo, ground glass opacities, micronodules, pte, pulmonary tumor embolism, pulmonary tumor embolism, renal cell carcinoma, respiratory failure, spo2, peripheral oxygen saturation, surgical lung biopsy, mmrc, modified medical research council dyspnea scale
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PMC3336233_01
Male
62
A 62-year-old man presented with a 3-year history of recurrent episodes of high fever up to 40 C accompanied by rigors, sweating, flu-like sensation, and malaise. These episodes occurred roughly 3-4 times a year and would last between 2 to 3 days. A markedly elevated C-reactive protein of up to 64 mg/L but without a le...
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PMC7332175_01
Male
53
A 53-year-old Caucasian man with no previous neuropsychiatric history was admitted to our local psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) on 10 September 2017 following almost a 2-month deterioration of his mental health, physically aggressive, elevated in mood, paranoid-persecutory and grandiose delusions. Prior to his a...
anxiety, delusions, neuropsychiatry, psychosis
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PMC7305717_01
Male
83
An 83-year-old man presented to our department with one-day history of increasingly severe, continuous lower abdominal pain, without hyperpirexia, nausea or vomit. At this time, an increasing but still limited number of newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients were admitted on another floor of the same hospital. Patient's com...
covid-19, emergency surgery, fatal outcome, pandemic outbreak, sars cov-2
High-resolution computed tomography scan of lung showing extensive bilateral interstitial pneumonitis.
PMC5958587_01
Male
53
A 53-year-old farmer known to have diabetes mellitus with well-controlled blood sugars presented with intermittent episodes of high grade fever for more than a year. He had occasional dull aching pain in the left subcostal region. There was no history of reduction of weight or appetite. He never consumed ethanol. In th...
drug-induced thrombocytopenia, melioidosis, splenic granuloma, tuberculosis
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PMC6458909_01
Male
69
A 69-year-old man presented on May 1, 2018, to a hospital with fevers and diarrhea. The patient had a complicated history, with cardiovascular problems including an abdominal aortic aneurysm, atrial septal defect status after Amplatzer occluder device placed in 2008, and sick sinus syndrome status post dual-chamber pac...
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PMC6080867_01
Female
18
An 18-year-old female who studied abroad in Australia and recently returned presented at our inpatient department with numbness and weakness in all four limbs, disturbance of orientation, and memory impairment for 5 days. She also presented with abnormal sensation in the lower limbs, difficulty walking, trouble speakin...
n2o, cognitive dysfunction, encephalatrophy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, recreational use
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PMC3204624_01
Female
31
We identified a novel ceftriaxone-resistant N. gonorrhoeae isolated from a 31-year-old female commercial sex worker; MIC of ceftriaxone for this isolate was high (2 microg/mL). The woman visited a clinic in Kyoto for a routine examination for sexually transmitted infections in January 2009. Although she had no obvious ...
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PMC4862298_01
Male
17
A 17-year-old Indian man presented with a 1-month history of low-grade fever with anorexia followed by a 5-day history of acute sensorimotor paraparesis. There was no preceding or concurrent history of any gastroenteritis or other illness. There was no past history of any previous similar illness. The patient was well-...
distal myelitis, longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis, neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders, tuberculosis
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PMC4807951_01
Male
50
A 50-year-old male electrical engineer was referred to the glaucoma unit at St. Michael's Hospital on October 20, 2010, for left uncontrolled low-tension glaucoma on maximum medical therapy. His past ocular history included a right eye trabeculectomy, followed by a right Ahmed valve placement and right cataract extract...
glaucoma surgery, gold shunt, refractory glaucoma, suprachoroidal space, trabeculectomy, tube shunt
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PMC7666689_01
Female
22
A 22-year-old woman, without any formerly diagnosed diseases, presented to the emergency department with a 3 day history of dyspnea, fatigue and central chest pain. She reported increasing dyspnea that developed in the previous month. She also had intermittent pain in the small joints for several months. There was no f...
systemic lupus erythematosus, pericardial effusion, tamponade
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PMC4861862_01
Male
34
A 34-year-old man presented to our institution with complaints of cough, low-grade fevers, abdominal pain, nausea/vomiting, and a 2-week history of weight loss. His past medical history included rheumatoid arthritis with concomitant long-term use of infliximab and a PPD conversion, during which the patient underwent 11...
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CT showing a subtle cluster of airspace opacities in the right upper lobe (arrow).
PMC8131010_01
Female
37
A 37-year-old Chinese woman suffering from end-stage renal disease underwent a cadaveric kidney transplantation in November 2018. Postoperative recovery was uneventful and the serum creatinine level of the patient returned to normal three days after the transplantation. On postoperative day 8, the patient experienced a...
carbapenem-resistant klebsiella pneumoniae, fecal microbiota transplantation, gut microbiota, infection
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PMC2892693_01
Female
25
A 25-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with an 8-month history of abdominal pain, distension, intermittent nausea, vomiting, and low-grade fever. She had undergone abdominal surgery due to an accidental gunshot injury 10 years earlier. She had ascites on physical examination. Laboratory examinations were unre...
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PMC4198265_01
Female
32
A 32 years-old female, HIV positive who defaulted using Atripla for over a period of one year with current CD4 of 86/microL was referred to a tertiary hospital with chest x-ray showing a lesion suspicious of a lung tumour. She had presented at local hospital three (3) months earlier with non-productive cough, associate...
lung abscess, apical mass, lung tumour
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PMC5968297_01
Female
78
A 78-year-old woman was diagnosed with advanced gastric cancer with multiple lymph node metastases in January 2017. She received second-line chemotherapy with ramucirumab plus paclitaxel starting in August 2017 after failure of first-line chemotherapy. Because of complications with gastrointestinal hemorrhage due to pr...
chemotherapy, gastric cancer, paclitaxel, tuberculous meningitis
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PMC9684727_01
Male
53
The patient was a 53-year-old Chinese male with no history of cancer in his immediate family. The patient underwent small intestinal stromal tumor surgery in June 2020 and was treated with oral imatinib after surgery. The patient complained that on April 30, 2021, he had cough and sputum, yellow purulent sputum, with f...
case report, gastrointestinal stromal tumors, imatinib, primary pulmonary t-cell lymphoma, primary pulmonary lymphoma
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PMC3889001_01
Male
20
A 20-year-old male patient presented to our outpatient department with complaints of colicky type of pain in right lower abdomen, associated with vomiting and fever since 5 days. On examination, patient was febrile and his vitals were normal. The physical examination showed marked tenderness in right iliac fossa. On in...
appendix, granuloma, tuberculosis
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PMC6346858_01
Female
33
We present the case of a 33-year-old Caucasian woman with a diagnosis of Behcet's syndrome with severe eye disease with left optic neuropathy and bilateral retinal vaso-occlusive vasculitis. The patient had been taking subcutaneous adalimumab 40 mg every 2 weeks (for the last 6 months), cyclosporine 150 mg twice daily ...
tuberculous tonsillitis, adalimumab
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PMC4961796_01
Female
41
A 41-year-old Korean woman complained of a slight cough without dyspnea or a fever. She was referred to our department by her primary care physician. She was affected by tuberculosis when she was 34 years of age in Korea and treated with unspecified chemotherapy; no signs of relapses occurred until 41 years of age. The...
angiogram sign, maximum standardized uptake value (suvmax), mycobacterium avium, positron emission tomography (pet)/computed tomography (ct)
CT. scan at the initial visit revealed broad consolidation with a positive angiogram sign (arrow) throughout the upper-lobe of the left lung.
PMC4961796_01
Female
41
A 41-year-old Korean woman complained of a slight cough without dyspnea or a fever. She was referred to our department by her primary care physician. She was affected by tuberculosis when she was 34 years of age in Korea and treated with unspecified chemotherapy; no signs of relapses occurred until 41 years of age. The...
angiogram sign, maximum standardized uptake value (suvmax), mycobacterium avium, positron emission tomography (pet)/computed tomography (ct)
CT. scan at the initial visit revealed broad consolidation with a positive angiogram sign (arrow) throughout the upper-lobe of the left lung.
PMC9410991_01
Male
36
A 36-year-old man was admitted to our department for bilateral symmetric polyarthralgia touching large and small joints for two months. He also complained of bone pain in the forearm and legs, shortness of breath, and dry cough without dyspnea. He was not a smoker or alcoholic. His medical history was without specialti...
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PMC9838795_01
Male
27
A 27-year-old male patient from Cameroon presented with precordial pleuritic chest pain of 1-month duration. The pain was associated with intermittent dry cough, low-grade fever, weight loss, and gradually worsening dyspnoea on exertion. The worsening of dyspnoea with the occurrence of paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea pro...
africa, pericarditis, trichinella spiralis, case report, tamponade
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PMC3833587_01
Female
40
A 40-year-old Ghanaian female farmer presented to her internist with an exacerbation of asthma. She has lived all of her life in Tamale, Ghana, and she and her physician were accustomed to asthmatics having increased symptoms at this time, during the dry season when the Harmattan, dry desert winds carrying sand off of ...
bronchospasm, asthma, atypical asthma, bedside ultra-sound, cardiac asthma, cardiac tamponade, case report
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PMC3638494_01
Male
32
A 32-year-old man form the Indian subcontinent presented to the emergency department 2 days after having been kicked in the scrotum during a football match with increasing pain and swelling of the right hemiscrotum. A firm discrete mass was noted at the lower pole of the right epididymis that was clinically inseparable...
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PMC8651557_01
Female
43
A 43-year-old female, whose height was 160 cm and weight 46 kg [body mass index (BMI) 18.0], was admitted due to 2 months of repeated fever and space-occupying lesions in the liver on May 15, 2020 (day-1). The highest body temperature appeared at night but returned to normal in the morning, with dry cough, shortness of...
albendazole, case report, fascioliasis hepatica, metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mngs), precision treatment
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PMC3481907_01
Male
40
A 40-year-old man presented with large plaques of 30 years duration over right upper limb, right side of the chest and back, and right lower limb. The lesion started as a small papule over right upper limb near the elbow when he was 10 years old. Since then it steadily grew in size to involve whole of the limb and also...
cutaneous tuberculosis, giant plaque, lupus vulgaris
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PMC7876933_01
Male
65
A 65-year-old male with hypertension and diabetes mellitus complained of sudden thoraco-abdominal pain. At history he referred to be in treatment with antiplatelet and anti-hypertensive drugs. Patient denied any previous family history of similar pathology. CT-scan showed an ATBAD, from left subclavian artery (LSA) to ...
case report, complicated aortic b dissection, petticoat
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PMC2799331_01
Male
45
A 45 year old white American male of Italian descent presented with a life-long history of occult gastrointestinal blood loss, chronic anemia, iron deficiency, and frequent bouts of abdominal pain as a child and young adult. Repeated episodes of acute gross gastrointestinal bleeding late in his fourth decade and multip...
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PMC9447446_01
Male
25
A 25-year-old Chinese man presented with the edema of the lower limbs and kidney dysfunction two years ago. The patient was then diagnosed as IgA nephropathy, based on the pathologic result of renal biopsy. The serum creatinine level was 222 mumol/L at that time. One year ago, the serum creatinine was increased to more...
bacterial infection, dialysis, procalcitonin, tuberculosis
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PMC8532220_01
Male
10
A previously healthy 10-year-old Indian boy developed acute onset of weakness and numbness of both lower limbs 7 days before admission. The weakness reached nadir over a period of approximately two days. On the fourth day of the illness, he developed a difficulty in micturition leading to urinary retention while bowel ...
acute transverse myelitis, case report, children, epstein-barr virus
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PMC6377617_01
Female
58
The patient's course is outlined in Fig. 1a. A 58-year-old, previously healthy, white female presented to her primary care provider (PCP) with the desire to remove a right posterior scalp cyst for cosmesis. This non-inflamed, non-draining, painless, 1-2 cm cyst had been present for close to 10 years without change in s...
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PMC3465890_01
Male
41
On initial outpatient presentation to our community mental health center patient was a 41-year old, college-educated single male, with a twenty-four-year history of severe OCD and depressive symptoms. Other than his former outpatient psychiatrist continuing his monthly prescription for Zoloft he had had no consistent p...
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PMC4561093_01
Female
40
A previously healthy 40-year-old woman presented with one-week history of diffuse urticarial rash to the dermatology ward which was successfully treated with systemic steroids and antihistamine medications. Three weeks prior to admission, treatment with methimazole 10 mg twice daily had been initiated due to a presumpt...
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PMC7210701_01
Female
28
A 28-year-old female presented to Fatmawati Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia due to progressive tetraparesis accounting for seven months. Initially there was mild neck pain, and then she experienced numbness along with weakness of all four extremities. The symptoms were gradually worsened such that at the time of admission...
cervicothoracic spinal tuberculosis, multilevel contagious involvement
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PMC7378631_01
Female
27
A 27-year-old woman who suffered a high-energy trauma after being hit by a car presents herself to the Emergency Department of a trauma hospital level III with multiple trauma. After initial ABDCE by ATLS, she was suffering from pain in the pelvis, left arm, and both knees. On physical examination, there was deformity ...
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PMC8192798_01
Male
58
A 58-year-old, asymptomatic male presented to our hospital (Lishui Municipal Hospital, Lishui, China) for a physical examination. Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for the publication of the present study. The patient had no history of cigarette smoking, hypertensive disease, diabetes mellitus, hep...
angiosarcoma, mediastinum, schwannoma, surgery, thoracoscopic
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PMC1242218_01
Female
0
A forty-year-old housewife, from a very low socio-economic status group, presented with history of gradually progressive weakness of left lower limb of 6 months duration, rapidly progressive weakness of right lower limb of 8 days duration and urinary incontinence of 6 months duration. She had been living near a very un...
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PMC5035335_01
Male
37
A 37 year old male presented in a tertiary care University Hospital with the chief complaint of prolonged fever after return from a business trip to Malaysia. While in Malaysia, the patient developed an episode of diarrhea for 4 days followed by high fever, rigors and malaise. He described a self-resolved similar episo...
diarrhea, gastroenteritis, post-travel, “septic abscess”
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PMC3656671_01
Male
45
A 45-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with a series of focal and generalized epileptic seizures. Initial clinical presentation showed a disoriented patient with left-sided tongue bite. Neurological examination disclosed paresis of the left hand. Laboratory results were normal apart from low potassium and low h...
de novo cavernoma, radiation-induced cavernoma, total body irradiation
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PMC7597567_01
Female
87
An 87-year-old Japanese woman was transferred to our emergency room with a right hip pain after she fell in her nursing home in April 2020. In Japan, up to 5000 patients were COVID-19 positive, the beginning of COVID-19 outbreak, and one-fifth of patients were from our province at the time. She had past history of cont...
asymptomatic covid-19, chest ct, coronavirus infection disease 2019 (covid-19), femoral intertrochanteric fracture, geriatric trauma, real-time reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction (rt-pcr)
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PMC6458939_01
Male
25
A 25-year-old man from Ghana was admitted to our hospital for an altered mental state, weight loss, neck pain, cough, fever, nausea, vomiting, and photophobia for 7 days. He reported a cough with greenish phlegm and blood-tinged sputum and a weight loss of ~20 lb in the last month. He reported that he could not eat bec...
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PMC7298644_01
Female
77
A 77-year-old African American female with hypertension and rheumatoid arthritis on chronic prednisone therapy presented to the hospital with fever, weakness, and unsteady gait. The patient had a history of latent tuberculosis infection reportedly treated over 15 years ago, and abdominal lymphadenopathy with granulomat...
diagnostic delays, iliopsoas abscess, musculoskeletal tuberculosis
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PMC4756250_01
Male
79
A 79-year-old man with a past history of diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis presented with decreased visual acuity on the right side and was diagnosed with retrobulbar optic neuritis. Medical treatment with a steroid (prednisolone 40 mg/day) was initiated and continued for 2 months but provided no symptom relief and su...
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PMC8822337_08
Male
10
A 10-year-old, male castrated domestic shorthair cat weighing 8.9 kg was presented for a 6 week duration of worsening stridor, wheezing, intermittent coughing and terminal retching exacerbated by exercise and stress. Tracheal auscultation revealed loud referred upper airway sounds. Thoracic radiographs revealed a 3 cm ...
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PMC9114638_01
Male
40
A previously well 40-year-old Indonesian male presented with transient loss of consciousness following a fall-from-standing height while working as a sailor aboard a ship. He sustained traumatic brain injury (TBI) with subarachnoid and subdural hemorrhages and multiple facial fractures with raised serum creatine kinase...
siadh literature review, case report, cerebral salt wasting (csw), hyponatremia, syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (siadh), traumatic brain injury, urinary sodium
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PMC7118411_01
Female
86
An 86-year-old woman had been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis 4 years prior to this case, and was prescribed prednisolone 5 mg + salazosulfapyridine 500 mg per day. Here, she presented to the Department of Rheumatology with fatigue, non-productive cough for 7 days, and fever for 3 days. She had no hemoptysis, night...
cryobiopsy, elderly, semi-rigid pleuroscopy, tb, tuberculous, tuberculous pleurisy
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PMC7118411_02
Male
91
A 91-year-old man was introduced to our ward for further examination due to a history of exertional dyspnea for 2 months and the finding of massive right pleural effusion in a general health examination. He had been diagnosed with pleurisy of unknown origin during childhood and had no clear history of exposure to illne...
cryobiopsy, elderly, semi-rigid pleuroscopy, tb, tuberculous, tuberculous pleurisy
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PMC5477428_01
Male
39
A 39-year-old male with no significant past medical history was transferred, intubated and sedated to our burn center, following a 40% TBSA deep partial thickness and full thickness burns to face, head, bilateral upper and lower extremities, perineum, scrotum, and penis. The mechanism of burn was a gasoline fire, follo...
ards, burns, conventional ventilation failure, extra corporeal membrane oxygenation, rescue ventilation, veno-venous ecmo
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PMC5477428_02
Male
53
A 53-year-old reportedly healthy African American male was admitted with 25% TBSA partial and full thickness burns to his upper extremities, chest and back following a flash burn from a grease fire. After burn shock resuscitation, he underwent excision/debridement/grafting of his back, upper extremities and chest. His ...
ards, burns, conventional ventilation failure, extra corporeal membrane oxygenation, rescue ventilation, veno-venous ecmo
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PMC4278095_01
Female
37
A 37-year-old woman with a past medical history of bacterial endocarditis of the pulmonic, mitral, and tricuspid valves due to intravenous drug abuse, with subsequent tricuspid valve replacement and pulmonary embolism presented to our Emergency Department (ED) complaining of generalized myalgias and shortness of breath...
computed tomography, levoatriocardinal vein, magnetic resonance imaging, partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection, right-to-left shunt
37-year old female who presented with dyspnea and hypoxia with a diagnosis of levoatriocardinal vein. Axial images from contrast-enhanced CT scan of the chest demonstrate the abnormal vessel. (c) Image at the level of the left atrium shows bright undiluted contrast in the left superior pulmonary vein (arrow) draining i...
PMC4278095_01
Female
37
A 37-year-old woman with a past medical history of bacterial endocarditis of the pulmonic, mitral, and tricuspid valves due to intravenous drug abuse, with subsequent tricuspid valve replacement and pulmonary embolism presented to our Emergency Department (ED) complaining of generalized myalgias and shortness of breath...
computed tomography, levoatriocardinal vein, magnetic resonance imaging, partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection, right-to-left shunt
37-year-old female who presented with dyspnea and hypoxia with a diagnosis of levoatriocardinal vein. Reformatted images from chest CT scan demonstrate the abnormal vessel. (a) Reformatted coronal image shows flow through the levoatriocardinal cardinal vein (arrow) to the left superior pulmonary vein (arrowhead).
PMC4278095_01
Female
37
A 37-year-old woman with a past medical history of bacterial endocarditis of the pulmonic, mitral, and tricuspid valves due to intravenous drug abuse, with subsequent tricuspid valve replacement and pulmonary embolism presented to our Emergency Department (ED) complaining of generalized myalgias and shortness of breath...
computed tomography, levoatriocardinal vein, magnetic resonance imaging, partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection, right-to-left shunt
37-year-old female who presented with dyspnea and hypoxia with a diagnosis of levoatriocardinal vein. Reformatted images from chest CT scan demonstrate the abnormal vessel. (b) Volume-rendered image from an anterior perspective shows the levoatriocardinal vein (large arrow) connecting the left brachiocephalic vein (BCV...
PMC4278095_01
Female
37
A 37-year-old woman with a past medical history of bacterial endocarditis of the pulmonic, mitral, and tricuspid valves due to intravenous drug abuse, with subsequent tricuspid valve replacement and pulmonary embolism presented to our Emergency Department (ED) complaining of generalized myalgias and shortness of breath...
computed tomography, levoatriocardinal vein, magnetic resonance imaging, partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection, right-to-left shunt
37-year year-old female who presented with dyspnea and hypoxia with a diagnosis of levoatriocardinal vein. Contiguous axial images from contrast-enhanced CT scan of the chest demonstrate the abnormal vessel. Beginning at the level of the left brachiocephalic vein, bright undiluted contrast drains inferiorly as it flows...
PMC8408892_01
Male
17
A 17-year-old male patient presented at our facility with a rapidly growing anterior neck mass of about 4 weeks duration. There was no history of fever, weight loss, night sweat, or thyroid hormone related symptoms. The family history was unremarkable for malignancy or tuberculosis. Physical examination revealed circa ...
germany, teratocarcinosarcoma, cancer, sinonasal, thyroid
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PMC8651021_01
Male
70
A 70-year-old male smoker (1 pack a day for 40 years) presented in April 2014 with painless, subacute, bilateral visual decline of 1 month's duration. His past medical history was unremarkable; however, weight loss of 17 kg in recent months as well as myalgia and fatigue were noted. Examination revealed a bilateral bes...
paraneoplastic syndrome, small-cell lung cancer, uveitis, vitritis
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PMC4980804_01
Male
44
A 44-year-old man sustained a 55% total body surface area burn secondary to a gasoline fire. He required numerous rounds of excision and autografting and was discharged to inpatient rehabilitation on postburn day 45. Approximately 3 months postburn, he presented to clinic with a persistent area of hypertrophic granulat...
acute marjolin's ulcer, burn, nonhealing wound, skin graft, squamous cell carcinoma
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PMC5364197_01
Female
75
A 75-year-old woman was admitted to the Jikei University Hospital due to impaired consciousness and status epilepticus. She was referred to the hospital's outpatient clinic 24 days before admission to investigate a progressive mass-like lesion with a maximum diameter of 30 mm that was located on her left upper lung. Po...
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PMC4943130_01
Female
9
A 9-year-old girl presented with low-grade fever for 1 month and abdominal distension for 15 days along with labored breathing. There was loss of appetite. There was no cough or contact with TB. On examination, height was 117 cm, weight was 17 kg. She had anemia with generalized insignificant lymphadenopathy. On system...
paradoxical reaction, pericardial effusion, tuberculosis
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PMC3507031_01
Male
30
A 30-year-old male patient presented to our clinic with a history of tender swelling on the dorsum of middle phalanx of left index finger. The patient noted the mass since 12 months, which gradually became larger. The mass was 13 mm in diameter [Figure 1], with mild tenderness and firm in palpation, slightly mobile and...
digit, fibro-osseous pseudotumor, heterotopic ossification, soft tissue lesion
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PMC6558611_01
Female
62
A 62-year-old otherwise healthy woman presented with three to four months of mechanical right groin pain radiating to the right buttock. She had a history of a benign soft-tissue mass in the right thigh that had been biopsied 10 years earlier, and the patient was told it was a myxoma. No other workup was done at the ti...
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PMC8575374_02
Male
11
At enrollment, the patient (Figure 4A) was 11 years old. After completing the trial, he entered pathfinder 8 and is currently studying at university. Prior to pathfinder 5 enrollment, the patient was receiving SHL rFVIII twice weekly but continued to experience bleeds on this PPX regimen. Of note, his estimated FVIII t...
extended half-life, factor viii, joint health, prophylaxis, surgery
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PMC10329462_01
Female
70
A 70-year-old woman (60 kg, 160 cm) was admitted to the hospital with chest and back pain, and limited mobility for five months. Five months ago, the patient felt continuous pain in the chest and back without significant cause. The pain area was fixed and accompanied by fever (the highest temperature was 39 C). There ...
aspergillus tubingensis spondylitis, case report, enzyme-induction effect of rifampin, individualized pharmaceutical care, voriconazole
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PMC9339741_01
Female
12
A 12-year-old girl presented, complaining of prominent lower front teeth, protruded chin, and compromised mastication and phonation. She had very low self-esteem as she was constantly ridiculed for her unpleasant smile and facial appearance. The family history was not suggestive of any genetic predisposition. Extraoral...
adolescence, alt-ramec, cl iii malocclusion, orthopedic, protraction facemask, stability
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PMC6080505_01
Female
32
A 32-year-old HIV seronegative female patient, currently working as a research assistant in a healthcare facility presented with a second episode of massive haemoptysis within a 5-month period. She had been diagnosed with microbiologically proven PTB 6 years prior to her admission and completed 6 months of therapy. How...
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PMC5179082_01
Unknown
60
The human tissues analyzed in this study (livers, lungs and kidneys) were obtained from four dengue fatal cases that occurred during a Brazilian outbreak of DENV-3 in 2002 in Rio de Janeiro. All patients died with a clinical diagnosis of severe dengue with infections confirmed by positive serum IgM antibodies. The four...
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PMC9719436_01
Female
39
A 39-year-old female patient presented to external consult after presenting on May 2021, a fall from her height secondary to a syncopal episode, as well as anomic aphasia, dizziness, and short-term memory loss. She presented again on August 2021, after another syncopal episode, as well as the gradual loss of sensibilit...
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PMC3951777_02
Female
55
He was tested twice, 2 and 6 weeks after the present concussion. His findings were compared to a control group of 12 healthy adults (5 females), aged between 19 and 55 years old (30+-14). We looked for control subjects spanning a wide age range to minimize the potential impact of age-related effects. The age of the pat...
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PMC9612512_01
Male
0
A 22-month-old African boy, born at full-term after normal pregnancy in Belgium, with no relevant medical history nor recent travel history and fully vaccinated according to the Belgian schedule, presented with dry cough and high fever for 3 days and respiratory distress for 24 h. At admission, the child appeared grump...
panton-valentine leucocidin, staphylococcus aureus, children, methicillin-sensitive staphylococcus aureus, severe infections
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PMC9612512_02
Female
0
A 21-month-old African girl born in Belgium without medical history or travel history (for her and her family) and fully vaccinated, presented with a 3-day high fever to another emergency department where treatment by oral amoxicillin had been initiated. Four days later, because of persistent high fever and the onset o...
panton-valentine leucocidin, staphylococcus aureus, children, methicillin-sensitive staphylococcus aureus, severe infections
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PMC9612512_03
Female
14
A 14-year-old fully vaccinated African girl born in Belgium, without any medical background and whose last travel with her family had been 10 years before to Congo Brazzaville. She was admitted to the Emergency Department of our institution for chest pain and dyspnea associated with deterioration of general condition f...
panton-valentine leucocidin, staphylococcus aureus, children, methicillin-sensitive staphylococcus aureus, severe infections
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PMC10343122_01
Male
70
A 70-year-old married male presented with painful genital ulcer for 20 days. Initially, the patient developed single skin-colored elevated lesion over the shaft of the penis which gradually ruptured leaving behind a raw area associated with clear fluid discharge. The patient was admitted to surgery ward for nonhealing ...
neutrophilic dermatosis, penile, pyoderma gangrenosum
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PMC7643780_01
Male
15
A 15-year-old Caucasian boy was diagnosed with B-NHL involving lymph nodes, mediastinum and bones. The patient was treated according to B-NHL-BFM (Berlin-Frankfurt-Munster) 1997 protocol combined with Rituximab. Seven days after the fifth chemotherapy course, the patient was hospitalized for fever (37.9 C), severe cyto...
fungal infection, mucormycosis, pediatric non hodgkin lymphoma
CT lung scan showing the extensive consolidation (57 x 61 mm) at the lower lobe of the left lung associated with pleural effusion.
PMC7643780_01
Male
15
A 15-year-old Caucasian boy was diagnosed with B-NHL involving lymph nodes, mediastinum and bones. The patient was treated according to B-NHL-BFM (Berlin-Frankfurt-Munster) 1997 protocol combined with Rituximab. Seven days after the fifth chemotherapy course, the patient was hospitalized for fever (37.9 C), severe cyto...
fungal infection, mucormycosis, pediatric non hodgkin lymphoma
CT lung scan showing the slight increment of the left lung consolidation (53 x 77 mm) appearing as an area of pulmonary opacity surrounded by normal parenchyma.
PMC4320181_01
Female
30
A 30-year-old female with a fever, scleritis, and auricular pain for a duration of 3 months was examined. She was finally diagnosed with RP from her symptoms, auricle biopsy and response to corticosteroid therapy according to the proposed diagnostic criteria (McAdam et al.; Damiani and Levine). She frequently took non-...
ileocecal ulcers, intestinal behçet’s disease, magic syndrome, relapsing polychondritis
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PMC8057857_01
Female
40
The data on the risk of preterm labor in pregnant patients with COVID-19 as opposed to those without is very mixed. A systematic review of over 350 pregnant patients showed that preterm labor rates in patients >30 weeks' gestation were 15%. This rate is increased from the national average of 10% preterm birth rate in t...
covid-19, neonatal outcomes, placenta, pregnancy, sars-cov-2, treatment, vaccine, vertical transmission
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PMC3235990_01
Male
27
A 27-year-old Peruvian male was admitted to our hospital because of fever, chills, productive cough, and chest pain. The patient had been in his usual state of general health until three months earlier when he began to notice some chest discomfort which was pleuritic in nature. The pleuritic chest pain was soon followe...
aspergillus, aspergilloma, echinococcosis, hydatid cyst, lung abscess, lung cavity
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PMC3738353_01
Female
7
A 7-year-old Chinese girl presented to our department with a 3-week history of low-grade fever and cough. Her previous history was unremarkable. Physical examination revealed a soft abdomen with a tender liver edge 3 cm below the right costal margin and a palpable spleen tip; the chest was found to be normal. Routine l...
tuberculosis, children, liver, spleen
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PMC3323333_01
Male
54
In August 2000, a 54-year-old comatose man was admitted to our infectious diseases department with a 10-day history of fever. He had a medical history of vertebral arthrosis (lumbar laminectomy in 1989) and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Six weeks before, he had received for 3 days gluteal injections with kebuson...
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PMC2627818_01
Female
72
A 72-year-old asymptomatic woman presented to the clinic for a checkup. She had a history of cholecystectomy, hypothyroidism, and hypertension. She had been treated with thyroid hormone (Puran T4, 75 mug), an anti-hypertensive agent (the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor Enalapril , 20 mg), an antiarrhythmic dru...
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