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PMC4900050_01
Male
18
An 18-year-old male presented to his family physician approximately 45 minutes after sustaining an injury to his right shoulder. He was tackled by another player while playing football. He noted a "pop" at his right sternoclavicular joint (SCJ), and resultant difficulty moving the right arm secondary to pain and a repr...
ct, computed tomography, mri, magnetic resonance imaging, scj, sternoclavicular joint
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PMC3716243_01
Male
55
A 55 year old north Indian male patient presented with history of painless progressive jaundice for 6 months and few episodes of intermittent fever for 3 months. There was loss of appetite and weight loss of 5 kg over the previous 6 months. There was no history of hematemesis or malaena. The patient did not drink alcoh...
bile ducts, obstructive jaundice, tuberculosis
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PMC8519353_01
Female
75
The diagnosis of chronic insomnia was made with clinical interviews according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine International Classification of Sleep Disorders, Third Edition (ICSD-3). The inclusion criteria were as follows: (1) 18 to 75 years old. (2) In compliance with the diagnostic criteria for chronic inso...
acupuncture, chronic insomnia, randomized clinical trial, sleep and comorbid symptoms
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PMC4352732_01
Male
44
A 44-year-old male with the past medical history of essential hypertension and tuberculosis presented to the emergency room (ER) with the complaints of high grade fever, fatigue, and shortness of breath. According to patient, he developed high grade fever 1 week ago that was accompanied by myalgias, frontal headache, a...
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PMC8123922_01
Female
13
Of course, xenophobia in the news and online needn't translate into in-person acts of racism. But while it needn't, such acts were perpetuated in local communities. Multiple Asian Americans' stories made the news, exposing the ways in which these people were made victims of racist attacks after the COVID-19 outbreak. O...
activism, animal advocacy, covid-19, factory farms, wet markets
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PMC10333629_01
Female
49
A 49-year-old woman (160 cm tall, weighing 50 kg), with histories of depression and adjustment disorder, was injured in a collision accident with a train, and was rushed to our hospital in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest and with her left leg amputated by the trauma. After arriving at the hospital, she was immediatel...
transesophageal echocardiography, debridement, general anesthesia, pulmonary thromboembolism, venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
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PMC7731515_01
Male
68
We present a 68-year-old Caucasian male who reported left leg weakness during his intake interview at a local hospital. The patient had been experiencing leg weakness for one week. He was admitted to the hospital due to his complaint of leg weakness and fever. After three days, he was discharged from the hospital with ...
bacteremia, emboli, endocarditis, hemorrhage, infective, intraparenchymal, septic
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PMC9992531_01
Male
12
Our case is a 12-year-old boy who was transferred to the Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital from another hospital in March 2022, for the management and treatment of severe neurological symptoms. The symptoms began 10 days after asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection. SARS-CoV-2 infection was diagnosed by a nasopharyngeal swab...
covid-19, acute disseminated encephalopathy, children, complications, neurological complications
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PMC6451814_01
Male
13
A boy who was 13 years old presented to the emergency room with pain and difficulty in walking after a break (sudden deceleration) during a football match. The patient's height and weight were 1.62 m and 59 kg, respectively. Physical examination indicated pain when trying to fully extend either knees, bilateral pain on...
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PMC4213402_01
Male
21
A 21-year-old Nepalese man was brought to our emergency room (ER) after a witnessed generalized tonic clonic seizure (GTCS), lasting for few minutes and aborted spontaneously. The patient was previously healthy with no history of seizures. There were no recent respiratory symptoms or fever. His vaccination status is un...
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PMC8235959_01
Male
17
A previously healthy 17-year-old Caucasian male patient, with no family history of known rheumatic diseases, was observed in the emergency department with a history of fever, dry cough, and pleuritic chest pain for the past 24 h. Chest X-ray revealed an hypotransparency on the left inferior lobe, and antibiotic therapy...
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PMC3040432_01
Male
64
A 64-year-old man, weighing 47 kg and having a height of 154 cm, was scheduled for a pericardiectomy for treatment of constrictive pericarditis. When he was hospitalized with a two-week history of aggravating dyspnea, he had been placed on outpatient follow-up for pulmonary tuberculosis, previously diagnosed with dyspn...
arterial insertion, central venous catheterization, intraoperative complication
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PMC9198831_01
Female
35
A 35-year-old woman was admitted in October 2021 with a history of low back pain for the past year, which worsened over the past 2 weeks, and the patient complained of radiating pain in the left lower limb. The patient was treated at another hospital 2 weeks ago, where MRI, CT, and x-ray showed T11-L1 bone destruction....
case report, endovascular repair, endovascular stent-graft, spinal tuberculosis, thoracic aortic pseudoaneurysm
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PMC6150561_01
Male
12
A 12-year-old male child was referred to our hospital with a 6-year history of repeated attacks of chest infection. He received several courses of antibiotics and was also investigated for pulmonary tuberculosis because of persistent lung infiltrates on his chest x-ray. All investigations for tuberculosis were negative...
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CT-scan of the chest showing multiple cysts of variable sizes in the right upper lobe.
PMC4531542_01
Female
44
A 44-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of nausea, vomiting and paraplegia of both lower extremities. She was diagnosed as HIV positive in June, 2000, when she presented with retinal necrosis caused by the varicella zoster virus. Subsequently, she was started on zidovudine, lamivudine, and indinavir at...
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PMC7430075_01
Male
39
A 39-year-old man presented with worsening shortness of breath. The patient had a past medical history significant for follicular lymphoma (diagnosed 3 years ago) for which he had completed chemotherapy. He had a relapse of follicular lymphoma, which continued to progress despite chemotherapy with rituximab, cyclophosp...
delayed complication, iatrogenic, pneumothorax, transbronchial biopsy
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PMC2822252_01
Male
32
A 32-yr-old Korean male patient was admitted to Inha University Hospital, Incheon, Korea due to dyspnea and right chest pain for 1 day. On physical examination, the breath sound in the right lung fields was decreased without shifting of the maximal point of the cardiac impulse. He had a history of the right pneumothora...
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Chest CT scan shows a branching soft tissue density in the region of the posterior segment of the right upper lobe with marked decrease in attenuation and vascularity. The subsegmental branch of the posterior segmental bronchus could not be traced distal to this (arrow) posterior segmental bronchus.
PMC7424389_01
Female
65
A 65-year-old female presented to our clinic with a 2-year history of worsening bilateral pulsatile tinnitus. She described "humming" in both ears, in time with her heartbeat, which had become very difficult to ignore, to the point of being debilitating. She had no history of hearing loss. She denied autophony, hearing...
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PMC9527840_01
Female
19
A 19-year-old female presented to the outpatient department with the presence of a single, progressively growing, firm, diffuse swelling over the right preauricular region. There has been progressive trismus for eight months which developed insidiously over the past four months. The patient had been on self-prescribed ...
condylectomy, extrapulmonary tuberculosis, mandibular condyle, preauricular region, tubercular osteomyelitis
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PMC9393733_01
Female
59
Our patient is a 59-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and hyperglycemia for more than 15 years without previous history of alcohol consumption or smoking nor history of liver disease. She presented with intermittent fever without obvious inducement for 3 weeks (specific time points in Figure 1) with the hig...
alpha- fetoprotein (afp), hepatic metastases, hepatoid adenocarcinoma, hepatoid adenocarcinoma of the duodenum, immunohistochemical
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PMC9043811_02
Female
60
Neurodevelopment was normal. She graduated from college and worked as a teacher before retirement at 60-years-old. There was no history of psychiatric symptoms or family history of psychiatric disorders or dementia. A graphical timeline with the most relevant symptoms is shown in Figure 1. Her present illness started w...
case report, dementia with lewy bodies, neuropsychiatric symptoms, panic attacks, prodromal dementia with lewy bodies
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PMC9448882_01
Female
69
A 69-year-old woman consulted a hospital with a chief complaint of 7 days of fever, 4 days of blurry vision, and 4 h of glossolalia. She had a history of untreated diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis, which was cured 50 years ago. She had no other medical history and was not an alcohol drinker or a smoker. On admission,...
klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess, diabetes mellitus, endophthalmitis, hypervirulent klebsiella pneumoniae, meningitis
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PMC9426857_01
Male
11
An 11-year-old male castrated 5.7-kg domestic shorthair cat presented to the internal medicine service after experiencing two seizures (believed to be tonic-clonic). The medical record information prior to this presentation is limited. The patient was feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) positive and had been seen at th...
blastomyces dermatitidis, brain, central nervous system, encephalitis, feline, fungal, magnetic resonance imaging
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PMC2774484_01
Female
74
A 74-year-old woman with a history of gastric cancer presented with a chief complaint of lower back pain. Subjective lower back pain emerged approximately 4 months prior to her visit to our institute. On admission, deep tendon reflexes in both legs (patella tendon reflex (PTR) and Achilles tendon reflex (ATR)) were fou...
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PMC2774484_02
Female
64
A 64-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with lower back pain and a history of surgery for leg varicose veins. Lower back pain had emerged about 3.5 months prior to her visit to our institute, with gradual worsening. The patient complained that lower back pain had never improved since onset and had been exacerb...
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PMC3420725_01
Female
26
A 26-year-old previously healthy Japanese female presented with nine days of myalgias, subjective fevers, and soaking night sweats. Four days prior, she developed multiple erythematous nodules on her face, chest, abdomen, and upper and lower extremities bilaterally. She complained of sore throat, nonproductive cough, p...
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PMC9133549_01
Male
39
A 39-year-old male patient was admitted to the Department of Emergency Medicine, the Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University on May 12th, 2020, due to chief complaints of fever for more than 10 days and disturbance of consciousness accompanied by convulsions for 2 days. The patient developed intermittent fever bef...
cns demyelinating diseases, complicated or secondary autoimmune encephalitis, metagenomic next-generation sequencing, pathogen detection, severe listeria encephalitis
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PMC5629883_01
Female
2
A 41/2-year-old female child presented with fever for 11/2 months and cough for 5 months. There was no contact with a patient suffering from TB. A general practitioner had treated her with anti-TB therapy (ATT) for 2-3 months in view of positive Mantoux test. On examination, weight was 16 kg, and height was 98 cm. Both...
aortoarteritis, children, tuberculosis
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PMC6462151_02
Male
27
We report a 27 year old man, 10 pack-years smoker, with a one-month history of dry cough, shortness of breath and general status's deterioration. A lung X ray showed bilateral alveolar opacities (Figure 1). Blood gases analysis in ambient air showed a pO2 of 57 mmHg, a pCO2 of 38.6 mmHg, a HCO3- of 29.2 mmHg. Because o...
lung toxicity, chronic beryllium disease, glassblower, interstitial pneumonia
CT scan (lung windowing): a & b) bilateral lung consolidations and ground glass opacities with bronchial distortion; c & d) CT scan at 2 years: partial regression of lung consolidations and ground glass opacities and increase of distortion signs and cavities appearance.
PMC5810523_01
Male
50
Seven years ago, a 50-year-old Chinese male with cough and expectoration (black phlegm) for about 2 weeks, sometimes accompanied with bloody sputum and breathlessness, was admitted to our hospital. These symptoms developed without apparent cause and in the absence of problems such as chest pain and/or distress, fever, ...
gene mutation, giant-cell carcinoma of the lung, high-throughput sequencing
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PMC8110271_01
Female
45
Y village and two villages less than 2 km away accounted for approximately 50% of the total cases in Shijiazhuang. These villages are all located within 10 kilometres of Shijiazhuang Zhengding airport. Most young people in the villages prefer the city and migrate to work, leaving behind most of the elderly individuals,...
covid-19, challenges, health system, public health crisis, rural area
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PMC8110271_02
Unknown
35
The indirect causes of the logic failure of village pandemic prevention and control are the inadequately equipped teams in the rural pandemic prevention system. For example, village-barefoot doctors are growing older and gradually withdrawing from front-line health work. Young college graduates are unwilling to stay in...
covid-19, challenges, health system, public health crisis, rural area
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PMC5633164_01
Male
24
Our patient is a 24-year old caucasian male diagnosed with SLE and associated antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) in 2001 at the age of 9. Initial symptoms were arthralgia, livedo reticularis and a decrease in complement. In 2005 he developed a class 4a glomerulonephritis. He was treated with prednisolone and cyclophospham...
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High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) showing lobular ground-glass opacities and in some areas interlobular septal thickening superimposed on ground-glass opacity (crazy paving pattern) compatible with alveolar bleeding.
PMC10498687_01
Female
33
A 33-year-old female presented with vague upper abdominal pain and dyspeptic symptoms for 2 months. She was otherwise well with no fever, constitutional symptoms, loss of appetite or loss of weight and was normoglycaemic. Her previous medical and surgical histories were unremarkable. She had no known allergies and her ...
pancreatic neoplasm, pancreatic tuberculosis
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PMC7644338_01
Female
70
A 70-year-old ethnically Chinese female presented via the Emergency Department with a 2-week history of shortness of breath, productive cough, and confusion. A chest radiograph showed focal consolidation, and she was treated with antibiotics for community-acquired pneumonia and delirium. By day seven, her confusion had...
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PMC5965009_01
Male
56
A 56-year-old male patient with coronary artery disease (CAD) and hypertension was referred with exertional dyspnea (NYHA II). Past medical history revealed that he had coarctation which was surgically corrected with a 16 mm x 20 mm Dacron tube graft at 21 years of age. On examination, his right upper limb blood pressu...
covered stenting, recoarctation of the aorta, tube graft
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PMC5412738_01
Male
67
A 67-year-old male patient (height 165 cm; body weight 88 kg), without previous cardiological history, was admitted to our emergency room for paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea. The patient had reduction of functional capability and dyspnea (New York Heart Association functional class III) in the preceding months. He was on ...
congenital heart disease, echocardiography, mitral cleft, ostium primum
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PMC7968547_01
Female
63
A 63-year-old woman came to our hospital complaining of recurrent upper abdominal fullness discomfort for almost 10 years. She experienced exacerbation of intermittent nausea, vomiting with chyme (5 mL), heartburn, acid regurgitation, and eructation for 6 months. No history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, or corona...
brunner’s glands, adenoma, benign tumor, duodenum
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PMC7792877_01
Male
40
A 40-year-old male with loss of consciousness was referred to neurology ward (AL-Zahra Hospital) after controlling for the elevation of creatine phosphokinase (CPK) (4050 U/L) and creatine (Cr) levels (4.9 mg/dL) due to rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure in nephrology department. Hemodialysis approach was performed...
case report, lead poisoning, muscle, necrosis, penicillamine, rhabdomyolysis
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PMC2913650_01
Male
32
A 32-year-old married male, graduate, with stable premorbid personality traits, without any genetic loading, non-addict, normotensive, non-diabetic developed aberrant behaviour for the first time. This led to irregularities and inattentiveness at work, increasing global withdrawal, emotional aloofness, irritable and im...
aids, pml, akinetic mutism, catatonia
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PMC5301086_01
Male
53
The patient was a 53-year-old man in good health without any major illnesses. He claimed that in a recent car accident, which had occurred 3 days before he reported to the clinic, his right eye was hit by a suddenly inflating airbag. In addition to severe pain, he suffered from a sudden-onset loss of vision. Based on t...
airbags, choroidal rupture, intravitreal bevacizumab, intravitreal sulfur hexafluoride
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PMC7086868_01
Male
16
A 16-year-old adolescent was admitted to Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong with high swinging fever up to 39.9 C for 5 days. He developed profuse diarrhoea with passage of greenish, watery, loose stools 1 day before admission. He also complained of dry cough, myalgia and general malaise. There was no running nose, ...
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PMC8551576_01
Female
12
A girl aged 12 years was hospitalized after eight months of unsuccessful treatment for disseminated pulmonary rifampin resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) to determine further treatment tactics. A household contact with the father, who was ill with TB since 2016, was established; drug susceptibility data were absent. The gi...
bedaquiline, children, mdr-tb, pulmonary tb, treatment
A fragment of the chest CT image before bedaquiline-containing chemotherapy: the areas of lung tissue consolidation with cavities in the upper lobe of the left lung. Multiple centrilobular foci, blending in some parts, in both lungs.
PMC8551576_01
Female
12
A girl aged 12 years was hospitalized after eight months of unsuccessful treatment for disseminated pulmonary rifampin resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) to determine further treatment tactics. A household contact with the father, who was ill with TB since 2016, was established; drug susceptibility data were absent. The gi...
bedaquiline, children, mdr-tb, pulmonary tb, treatment
A fragment of the chest CT image after 18-month bedaquiline-containing chemotherapy: residual changes after disseminated pulmonary TB in the form of single small solid foci in both lungs.
PMC10147527_01
Female
38
A 38-year-old woman was admitted to our emergency gynecologic unit referring amenorrhea lasting 9 weeks, inconstant pelvic pain, and vaginal bleeding that started 2 days earlier. She had three previous deliveries, all performed by at-term CS: the first one in 2004 for a twin pregnancy, and the other two in 2009 and 201...
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PMC8325462_02
Male
40
A 40-year-old man presented with sudden-onset left-sided chest pain of two days duration. The pain was severe, pleuritic in nature and relieved by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS). There was a history of self-limited intermittent dry cough over the preceding 3 months and occasional exertional dyspnea. The...
non-tuberculous mycobacteria, case report, immunocompetent, pneumonia, tuberculosis
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PMC4584436_01
Male
28
A 28-year-old Indian male with chronic weakness, loss of appetite, and a pulsatile mass in the abdomen was referred to our department for radiological evaluation. The patient was normotensive, non-smoker, non-diabetic, and was admitted for alteration of his general state, including weight loss, dizziness, and mild feve...
abdominal aorta, multidetector computerized tomography, mycotic aneurysm, systemic tuberculosis
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PMC4614336_01
Female
13
A 13-year-old Bahraini girl initially presented to a private hospital with a two day history of agitation and new onset of severe continuous bitemporal headache associated with slurring of speech. She had no history of fever, trauma, drug intake or migraine. She had no other past medical history of significance. Her bi...
acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (adem), anti-n-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antibody (anti-nmdar-ab), central nervous system (cns), encephalitis
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PMC3960813_01
Male
62
A 62-year-old male patient, resident of West Bengal, was suffering from cough and chest pain for the last 6 months. He underwent initial management in a local hospital. He was a non-smoker and non-alcoholic. He had no history of fever, hematemesis, malena, diarrhea, headache, or body ache. He had not suffered from dise...
immunocompetent patient, pleural effusion, visceral leishmaniasis
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PMC8861510_01
Female
61
A 61-year-old woman presented to our department with a 3-week history of progressive bilateral weakness of her lower limbs. She had severe walking impairment with associated dizziness, headache, nausea, and vomiting. Although in good spirits, she reported anorexia, insomnia, and urinary and fecal incontinence, with a r...
h3k27m-mutant glioblastoma, brain glioblastoma, case report, multicentric glioblastoma, pulmonary embolism, spinal glioblastoma
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PMC7609909_01
Female
52
A 52-year-old woman was admitted with intermittent headache lasting for 5 months. The patient's headache gradually worsened 1 week before admission, and vomiting occurred 2 days before hospitalization. Physical examination revealed normal findings. The patient had a history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia. No abnorm...
mr perfusion, mr spectroscopy cerebral syphilitic gumma, brain tumor, cerebral syphilitic gumma, magnetic resonance imaging
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PMC3203977_01
Male
24
We report the case of a 24-year-old man who presented progressive precordial pain and dyspnea that had worsened in the last six months prior to the consultation with no previous history of arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking habits, or infectious diseases, such as syphilis or immunodeficiency syndrome. The phy...
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PMC2822302_02
Male
22
Patient 3 was a 22-yr-old man who had suffered from tuberculosis, lymphadenitis, hepatitis, enteric fever, meningitis, and Behcet's disease since he was 6 yr old. The following bacterial species were isolated: group B Salmonella spp. in his blood, liver biopsy and stool; coagulase negative Staphylococcus in bile; and E...
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PMC8088537_01
Male
25
A 25-year-old male with known case of disseminated tuberculosis (TB), hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) presented with a progressive paraparesis and loss of sphincter control (T8 level) of 2 months duration. He had already been on antitubercular therapy for the prior 8 months and had been taking antir...
intradural extramedullary, spine, tuberculosis
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PMC9728212_01
Male
44
In a 44-year-old male who recently immigrated from Bosnia-Herzegovina to Austria, computed tomography for an episode of acute pancreatitis revealed pancreatic pseudocysts, mild ascites and peritonitis. Due to proven alcohol abuse and furthermore unremarkable medical history no further investigation was forced, and the ...
strongyloides stercoralis, strongyloidiasis, chylous ascites, immigration, ivermectin
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PMC4802090_01
Unknown
15
Tuberculosis (TB) cases are on the rise more so in developing countries. According to and), TB is foremost among diseases that cause mortality worldwide. The statistics indicate that 8.6 million people were infected with this disease in 2012 and the death due to the disease was about 8.6 million of which about a quarte...
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PMC6661416_01
Female
8
An 8-year old female presented for evaluation in February 2003 after several months of syncopal and near syncopal episodes. Her past history was only remarkable for a severe respiratory infection at an age of 6 years. She was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension and no cause of pulmonary vascular d...
calcium channel blocker, guanylate cyclase, nitric oxide, nitric oxide synthase, pulmonary hypertension, vasodilator testing, calcium channel blocker(s), ccb, inhaled nitric oxide, ino, mean pulmonary arterial pressure, mpap, parts per million, ppm
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PMC8995639_01
Male
65
A 65-year-old male patient presented our clinic with a 4-year history of recalcitrant skin lesions. He was being treated as presumptive clinical diagnosis as verruca vulgaris with multiple topical therapies, including creams containing 5-fluorouracil, salicylate, retinoids, 40% urea, and cryotherapy. Despite the medica...
bacillus calmette-guérin, immunotherapy, tuberculosis verrucosa cutis
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PMC4369642_01
Male
23
A 23-year-old male, previously healthy, was admitted to the emergency room following a cerebral gunshot wound, at close range, from a hand gun. On admission, the patient presented with a Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) of 14 (E4 + M6 + V4), obeyed commands, had normal pupil responses and extremity movement, yet was agitated a...
human, hyperbaric oxygen, microdialysis, multi-modal monitoring, penetrating brain injury
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PMC8222916_01
Female
26
A 26-year-old pregnant woman was admitted owing to cough for 11 days, fever for 6 days and dyspnea for 2 days at 15 weeks of gestation. She presented with a dry cough 11 days prior to admission, accompanied by profound fatigue and night sweats. After treatment with Chinese patent medicine, the symptoms were temporarily...
evans syndrome, case report, corticosteroid, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, tuberculosis
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PMC6915030_01
Female
9
A 9-year-old Caucasian female presented to the West Virginia University otolaryngology clinic with the chief complaint of gradually increasing swelling of her upper and lower lips which started 4 months prior. The lip swelling was reported to be very distressing to the child and her parents. Prior to presentation at th...
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PMC10069495_01
Female
45
A 45-year-old female patient was admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University for a sore throat lasting for 20 days on September 8, 2022. She was a teacher and had no underlying diseases. Computed tomography (CT) examination showed a space-occupying lesion. The primary lesion had not yet been...
aspergillus fumigatus, case report, diagnosis, mediastinal abscess, metagenomic next-generation sequencing
Contrast-enhanced chest CT of the patient on September 1, 2022. Space-occupying lesion of anterior upper mediastinum is shown. A low-density necrosis area can be seen on enhanced scan, which is separated from the surrounding esophagus. (A) Lung view.
PMC3952391_01
Male
31
The present case report is about a 31-year old male patient who presented to our medical center with a productive cough, hemoptysis and chest pain for a month. He had a history of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) twice over the last 10 years. In the first episode, he was treated with the World Health Organization category (...
acute myelogenous leukemia, mycobacterium branderi, pcr-restriction fragment length polymorphism
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PMC10081889_01
Male
37
A 37-year-old male with a medical history of nephrolithiasis, latent tuberculosis, and a 20+ pack-year smoking history initially presented in February 2021 with complaints of hematuria, right flank pain, and new onset clot passage. A renal and bladder ultrasound was then done which showed numerous irregular cysts in th...
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PMC4435753_01
Male
55
A 55-year-old male, with multiple myeloma, was admitted with a fever up to 38.5 C and cervical lymph node enlargement 70 days after an allogeneic HSCT from an unrelated donor with human leukocyte antigen DQB1 mismatch (9/10 matched), for early progression after an autologous HSCT. After reduced intensity conditioning w...
haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, lymph node tuberculosis
(B) Highresolution chest CT revealed old pulmonary scar lesions with pleural thickening in the right upper lobe.
PMC7525059_01
Male
45
A 45-year-old man presented at the emergency department of our tertiary teaching hospital with a septic arthritis of the left hip. Four weeks before presentation the hip became painful. Since then the pain worsened and the patient became febrile. He did not suffer from night sweats. The patient had no significant medic...
mycobacterium microti, extrapulmonary tuberculosis, mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Chest computed tomography, showing perihilar consolidations at both sides with underlying bronchiectasis. In the periphery of the lungs smaller nodular infiltrates are visible. These are indicated by the arrows.
PMC3417363_01
Female
18
In this review we aim to give a contribution to the understanding of relevant aspects of Bcc bacteria-mediated respiratory infections in CF patients, based on the epidemiological surveys carried out by our research group of a case-study population that has been routinely followed for the past 16 years at the CF Treatme...
burkholderia cenocepacia, burkholderia cepacia complex, chronic respiratory infection, clonal variation, cystic fibrosis, genome-wide expression, long-term colonization
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PMC7201821_01
Female
69
A 69-year-old female complained of intermittent right leg radicular pain in the past two years and which became worse with numbness in the recent four days. Moreover, the patient also had severe intermittent claudication, and the claudication distance was only about 20 meters. The decreased muscle force of the right qu...
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PMC9849371_01
Female
42
A 42-year-old woman with a history of B-LBL was admitted to the Institute of Hematology and Blood Diseases Hospital, Tianjin, China, because of persistent dyspnea. In May 2019, the patient was evaluated at another hospital for recurrent pain in her right hip, which had begun 6 months earlier and gradually worsened with...
b cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, b cell lymphoblastic lymphoma, allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, cardiac involvement, chimeric antigen receptor t cells
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PMC6542496_01
Male
77
A 77-year-old man presented with depressive mood, asthenia, anorexia and weight loss of 20 kg. He also had a 1-month history of an enlarging and non-painful breast lump (Fig. 1). He did not have fever, night sweats, cough or breathlessness. He denied trauma or contact with tuberculosis. Physical examination revealed a ...
tuberculosis, breast lump, geriatric medicine, infectious disease
Computed tomography (CT) of the thorax showing pulmonary tuberculosis lesions.
PMC9549793_01
Female
24
A 24-year-old patient, gravida 1, at 40 weeks gestation by LMP, was brought to the emergency department by her family complaining of abdominal pain for 12 hours and active vaginal bleeding. She had no significant past medical history and never had antenatal care during pregnancy. She does not smoke or use drugs except ...
primagravida, thanatophoric dysplasia, antenatal care, case report, uterine rupture
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PMC10203512_01
Male
54
A 54-year-old male presented to our hospital because of upper abdominal pain. The patient weighed 65 kg, his height was 167 cm, and the standard liver volume (SLV) was 1231 mL, which was calculated based on the Urata formula. Laboratory examination ( Table 1 ) showed alpha fetoprotein (AFP) >60500 ng/mL, total bilirubi...
associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy, future liver remnant, immune checkpoint inhibitors, immunotherapy, unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma
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PMC10203512_02
Male
48
A 48-year-old male was admitted to our hospital due to a palpable mass in the right upper abdomen. The patient weighed 60 kg with a height of 178 cm, and the SLV was 1217 mL. Laboratory examination ( Table 2 ) revealed TBil 12.2 mumol/L, DBil 5.8 mumol/L, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) 1016 U/L, gamma gamma-glutamyl transp...
associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy, future liver remnant, immune checkpoint inhibitors, immunotherapy, unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma
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PMC3897989_01
Male
65
A 65-year-old male was admitted to our hospital complaining of jaundice, pruritus, mild right upper abdominal pain and darkening urine. Past medical history revealed atrial fibrillation and the patient was on intermittent aspirin therapy. And the family history was negative. Physical examination revealed icteric sclera...
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CT and MRI scan of the patient. Chest CT (H) showed a large patchy shadow in the right lower lobe.
PMC6295306_01
Female
25
We report the case of a 25-year-old woman (164cm, 84kg, G2 P1). She was referred to the tertiary care level delivery unit of Farhat Hached University Hospital for a scheduled c-section at 37 weeks of gestation. The medical history of the parturient notes a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy diagnosed at the age of 12 in a con...
pregnancy, anesthesia, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
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PMC9273825_01
Female
28
A 28-year-old young female patient came to our hospital for the treatment. She had a 3-year medical history of chest pain on the right side. A CT scan outside the hospital found a mass in her lungs 7 days ago. The admission CT showed that there was a prominent mass on the right posterior upper chest wall invading the a...
ewsr1, fish, immunohistochemistry, sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma, soft tissue sarcoma
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PMC4275023_01
Male
47
A 47 year old South Asian male teacher presented to our institute in June 2012 with a diagnosis made elsewhere of accelerated hypertension and acute left ventricular failure following a recent anterior wall myocardial infarction. He was admitted to hospital for further cardiac management, and a nephrology consultation ...
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PMC8053605_01
Male
77
A 77-year-old man was admitted to the Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University in November 2018 with a >1-month history of repeated fever, with night sweats and weight loss. Laboratory results showed thrombocytopenia and liver function reports showed increased lactate dehydrogenase and decreased albumin levels. A hepa...
epstein–barr virus, angioimmunoblastic t-cell lymphoma, diffuse large b-cell lymphoma, discordant lymphoma, lenalidomide, positron emission tomography/computed tomography
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PMC5420064_01
Male
13
A 13-year-old football player with a 1-year history of recurrent palpitations during exercise despite beta-blocker therapy attended our Paediatric Arrhythmia Clinic. An initial electrophysiology study diagnosed typical slow-fast AVNRT. Despite an aggressive radiofrequency ablation procedure including lesions in the low...
avnrt ablation, left-septal ablation, pediatric electrophysiology, slow pathway ablation, transeptal ablation
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PMC9421219_01
Unknown
18
We carried out a retrospective chart review of patients in the respiratory care unit (RCU) at Jackson Memorial hospital in Miami, Florida. Inclusion criteria included: patients older than 18 years old, concomitant diagnosis of HIV and active TB, receiving DTG and RBN, and undergoing measurement of DTG and RBN plasma co...
hiv, dolutegravir, rifabutin, tuberculosis
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PMC6010612_02
Female
10
Her family history revealed that she was born from non-consanguineous parents. Her father, a smoker affected with a chronic cough and bronchorrhea with chronic bouts of bronchitis and sibilance, died at the age of 36 from respiratory distress. Four male siblings also died from respiratory distress at the age of 7 days,...
alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, bronchiectasis, null mutation, panniculitis, serpina1 genotyping
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PMC9039281_01
Male
54
A 54-year-old man was admitted to the Department of Intensive Care Medicine of the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, on June 30th, 2021, due to headache and fatigue for 2 days. The patient developed a headache on June 28th, 2021, without obvious inducement, and gradually had drowsiness, accompanied by ...
case report, human parvovirus b19, immunosuppressed, mngs, multiple organ dysfunction
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PMC9109271_01
Male
57
A 57-year-old male patient presented with fever, general malaise, weight loss, and chronic right flank pain. He first noticed a cutaneous discharge at the right lower quadrant 3 weeks ago. His medical history included extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy of the right kidney years ago and recurrent urinary tract infect...
pyelonephritis, fat deposit, fistula
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PMC8414578_01
Male
28
A 28-year-old male patient had a dry cough, chest tightness after exercise, and shortness of breath for 1 week. He took oral cephalosporin for 3 days without any efficiency, and his symptoms got worse. On admission, leukoplakia in the mouth, little wet rales at the bottom of both lungs, and multiple swollen lymph nodes...
hiv, ngs, pneumocystis pneumonia, tropheryma whipplei, case report
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PMC7077940_01
Female
21
A 21-year-old woman visited the outpatient orthodontic clinic of Okayama University Hospital with the chief complaint of a protruding maxillary right central incisor. She desired nonsurgical treatment with invisible appliance. Front and profile facial photographs showed a symmetrical face, convex profile and protruded ...
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PMC3016730_03
Female
49
N.M., a 49-year-old female, was admitted with acute abdominal pain, fever, leukocytosis and thickened gallbladder containing stones on ultrasound. The gallbladder was found to be inflamed and edematous at time of surgery. Dissection within the triangle of Calot demonstrated venous structures between the later confirmed...
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PMC5149636_01
Female
37
A 37-year-old female was admitted with new onset of shortness of breath. On physical examination she was dyspnoeic, heart rate was 110 beats/min, and blood pressure was 80/50 mmHg with a pulsus paradoxus of 22 mmHg. Neck veins were distended; heart sounds were distant; no pericardial friction rub was heard; dullness wa...
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PMC3085497_01
Male
49
A 49-year-old farm laborer was referred to our hospital with complete heart block, incidentally discovered when he presented with persistent left sciatica despite analgesic treatment. No personal or familial history except a smoking habit was reported. The sciatica did not require immediate surgical management accordin...
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PMC9927030_01
Male
35
A 35-year-old Asian male presented to the hospital with a syncopal episode while he was walking home from a restaurant. He had two glasses of wine that evening but had been feeling dizzy and lightheaded in recent weeks. He did not have any significant past medical history and was not on any regular medication. He denie...
arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (arvc/d), cardiac magnetic resonanced imaging, cardioinhibitory syncope, emergency echocardiography, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (icd), life-threatening arrhythmia, prevention of syncope, right bundle branch block, ventricular dys...
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PMC4501556_01
Female
34
A healthy 34 year old woman presented to medical attention after experiencing several days of moderately severe pleuritic chest pain without other respiratory or constitutional symptoms. She was Ecuadorian where she lived until the age of 5 and had not recently been, worked at a local supermarket (although not in food ...
fusobacterium necrophorum, lemierre's syndrome, pulmonary nodule
Rounded inferio-medial left lower lobe nodule present on CT on original CT scan.
PMC5173512_01
Male
40
A 40-year-old man who had been treated for recurrent oral candidiasis came to our hospital because of general malaise and progressive body weight loss, losing 10 kg in a half year. He was bisexual, having no habit of intravenous drug use. While he had no history of any sexually transmitted diseases, he had experienced ...
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PMC10232950_01
Male
67
In September 2010, this 67-year-old man presented with fever, productive cough, and vomiting for 1 week. This was associated with progressive weight loss, poor appetite, lethargy, and increasing confusion over the past 3 weeks. He did not have abdominal pain, chronic cough, night sweats, or altered bowel habit. There w...
adrenal insufficiency, anti-fungal, azole, hemodialysis, hypercalcemia, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, iatrogenic cushing’s
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PMC5330040_01
Male
48
A 48-year-old Portuguese man, Caucasian, professional diver, working and living in Angola, with no significant medical history apart from several malaria episodes. Four days after completing a 3-day prophylactic medication scheme for paludisme (sulfadoxine 500 mg/pyrimethamine 25 mg - S-P), he presented a flu-like synd...
immunoglobulin, lyell syndrome, malaria, sulfonamides, toxic epidermal necrolysis
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PMC6180881_02
Male
39
A 39-year-old male presented with gradually increasing breast lumps on both sides for 1.5 years with no history of trauma. There was no past history of diabetes, hypertension, tuberculosis, pancreatitis, joint pains, fever or weight loss. On palpation, slightly tender subcutaneous masses measuring approximately 3 x 3 ...
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PMC5420920_01
Female
75
A 75-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus was evaluated for two months of chronic, low back pain. She also reported subjective fevers, weight loss, and an initially necrotic, one-centimeter wound on her right calf that developed five months earlier. She had no history of trauma, paraspinal steroid injection...
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PMC9902057_01
Female
60
A 60-year-old diabetic woman presented to the emergency department with lower-limb weakness and loss of sensation that had developed gradually over a year along with upper back pain. A history of trauma, tuberculosis, fever, weight loss, and bladder and bowel incontinence were all ruled out. There was no prior history ...
compressive myelopathy, decompressive laminectomy, immunotherapy, spastic paraplegia, takayasu arteritis
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PMC8327681_01
Female
30
A 30-year-old female patient presented to the clinic with intermittent haemoptysis for the past 2 years. She was a lifetime non-smoker, had no significant organic or inorganic dust exposures, and had not recently travelled. She reported progressively worsening dyspnoea and a chronic non-productive cough. There were no ...
fibrosing mediastinitis, haemoptysis, idiopathic fibrosing mediastinitis
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PMC7171659_02
Male
84
Case 2 is an 84-year-old man without remarkable medical history other than hyperlipidemia and prostatic hyperplasia. His chief complaint was cough, and an X-ray image showed an abnormal shadow on the upper mediastinum. A CT scan showed a 7.2 cm large mixed mass with a papillary solid component in the anterior mediastin...
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PMC2984303_01
Male
25
A 25 year old left hand-dominant man presented with swelling and mild numbness of the left arm of three days duration. Just a day before the onset of the swelling, he carried a heavy television set to his house. He had a history of pleural tuberculosis which was successfully cured after anti-tuberculosis treatment. He ...
deep vein thrombosis, paget-schroetter syndrome, axillary vein, subclavian vein
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PMC7101478_01
Female
46
A 46-year-old woman presented with continuous abdominal pain for more than a month. There was no family history of gastrointestinal tumors. There was no sign of peritonitis, and no abnormal findings were detected from the laboratory studies performed at admission, such as serum electrocytes, TB-IFN, and the immune PHOM...
endoscopy, immunocytochemistry, pathology, vanek’s tumor
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