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PMC4231816_01
Female
62
A 62-year-old woman was a close contact of a patient with active sputum positive TB. She had a positive Quantiferon test and no evidence for active disease. She had never taken rifampin before. She had hypertension and hyperlipidemia and took metoprolol 25 mg, atorvastatin 20 mg, calcium and vitamin D, and a multivitam...
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PMC8425344_02
Male
4
A thirty-four-year-old man with S/B0 thalassemia was admitted five days following the AstraZeneca vaccine with lower back pain, chest pain, and shoulder pain. He was on Hydroxyurea and had a history of splenic sequestration, tuberculosis of the spine, and cholecystectomy. He had no recent admission for over three years...
chadox1 ncov-19 vaccine, sars-cov2, sickle cell disease, vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia, vaso-occlusive crisis
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PMC5960230_01
Female
42
A 42-year-old woman presented to the outpatient Pneumology Clinic with a complaint of a persistent cough without fever over a month and the onset of chest pain a week prior to presentation. A chest X-ray revealed a left-sided perihilar opacity (Figure 1A). She reported a negative medical history and was prescribed the ...
endobronchial ultrasound-guided needle aspiration, mediastinal adenopathy, non-hodgkin’s lymphoma, pneumomediastinum
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PMC8183367_01
Male
38
A 38-year-old man, forest guard, resident of a hilly station of Himalayas, having schizophrenia for the past 15 years, being on antipsychotics: aripiprazole and trihexyphenidyl, presented to the emergency department with high-grade, intermittent fever for 7 days along with myalgia and headache. Following 4 days of feve...
gangrene, leukocytoclastic vasculitis, myocarditis, severe dengue
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PMC8480259_01
Male
0
A 9-month and 3-day-old male infant with a chief complaint of "intermittent vomiting blood for 6 h" was admitted to Wuhan Children's Hospital on February 8, 2019. Without obvious incentives, the child presented hemoptysis after coughing with bright red blood a total of four to five times. Three of them were quite serio...
bronchial dieulafoy's disease, critical care, pediatrics, pulmonary, rare disease
CT coronal scan of the lung (A,B).
PMC8480259_01
Male
0
A 9-month and 3-day-old male infant with a chief complaint of "intermittent vomiting blood for 6 h" was admitted to Wuhan Children's Hospital on February 8, 2019. Without obvious incentives, the child presented hemoptysis after coughing with bright red blood a total of four to five times. Three of them were quite serio...
bronchial dieulafoy's disease, critical care, pediatrics, pulmonary, rare disease
CT coronal scan of the lung (A,B).
PMC3568014_01
Male
38
A 38 years-old moderate hemophiliac A male patient was diagnosed to be co-infected with HIV (Subtype B, CCR5+) and HCV (Subtype 4), both transmitted by a blood transfusion received in 1982 during hip surgery for a fracture. Diagnoses of these infections were respectively ascertained in 1988 and 1998. Since 1989, he rec...
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PMC2990241_01
Male
30
A 30-year-old man had been suffering from right hypochondriac pain and fever. He had no history of the disease and had not received blood transfusion. Furthermore, there was not family history of liver disease. Physical examination revealed that the liver was palpable 5 cm below the right costal margin. Laboratory dat...
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PMC7333626_01
Male
30
A 30-year-old previously healthy male presented to the Emergency Department with a 5-day history of productive cough, fever, shortness of breath, and severe pleuritic chest pain. The fever was associated with chills and decreased appetite and was responding partially to over the counter antipyretics. The patient had tr...
invasive meningococcal disease, neisseria meningitidis, pneumonia
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PMC9373933_03
Female
69
The third patient was a non-smoking 69-year-old woman, fully vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2. The disease history started 6 months before her referral, when she complained of coughing and dyspnoea. At disease onset, she was diagnosed with COVID-19 because of CT scan presentation with peribronchovascular and subpleural co...
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PMC6317122_02
Female
36
A 36-year-old female with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hypothyroidism underwent a cesarean section a few weeks prior to admission and a gastric sleeve procedure 1 year before that. Two days before admission to hospital, the patient developed ascending numbness followed by weakness, which progressed over 2 days....
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PMC2817645_01
Female
71
A 71-year-old Italian woman presented a 2-month history of numbness and pain involving the left leg. She underwent orthopedic evaluation and articular ankle echography for the diagnostic suspicion of Baker cyst, that were negative. She also underwent lumbosacral MRI that did not show any signs of degenerative or trauma...
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PMC7838494_01
Male
11
An 11-year-old boy was assessed at the Pediatric Emergency Room because of a 3-day history of abdominal pain and distension. He was correctly vaccinated and had no history of interest, except for a self-limited gastroenteritis, 14 days prior to the beginning of this episode. The patient exhibited regular appearance due...
ménétrier's disease, case report, hypertrophic gastropathy, primary peritonitis, protein-losing enteropathy
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PMC6529672_01
Female
0
A 4-month-old female infant, born prematurely at 30 weeks and weighing 1,550 g, was hospitalized after 4 days of cough and fever. Her past history included a controlled premature birth by cesarean section due to placenta previa. She suffered from a brief period of mechanical ventilation and administration of exogenous ...
azithromycin, drug resistance, nontuberculous mycobacteria, pulmonary, treatment outcome
Chest radiograph and chest HRCT scan on admission. (A) showed patchy shadows in the right lung (arrows) and the lower left lung (arrow).
PMC6529672_01
Female
0
A 4-month-old female infant, born prematurely at 30 weeks and weighing 1,550 g, was hospitalized after 4 days of cough and fever. Her past history included a controlled premature birth by cesarean section due to placenta previa. She suffered from a brief period of mechanical ventilation and administration of exogenous ...
azithromycin, drug resistance, nontuberculous mycobacteria, pulmonary, treatment outcome
Chest radiograph and chest HRCT scan on admission. (B and C) Multiple masses and small nodules over both lungs (arrows). . Abbreviation: HRCT, high-resolution computed tomography.
PMC6529672_01
Female
0
A 4-month-old female infant, born prematurely at 30 weeks and weighing 1,550 g, was hospitalized after 4 days of cough and fever. Her past history included a controlled premature birth by cesarean section due to placenta previa. She suffered from a brief period of mechanical ventilation and administration of exogenous ...
azithromycin, drug resistance, nontuberculous mycobacteria, pulmonary, treatment outcome
Chest radiograph and chest HRCT scan on admission. (B and C) Multiple masses and small nodules over both lungs (arrows). . Abbreviation: HRCT, high-resolution computed tomography.
PMC6529672_01
Female
0
A 4-month-old female infant, born prematurely at 30 weeks and weighing 1,550 g, was hospitalized after 4 days of cough and fever. Her past history included a controlled premature birth by cesarean section due to placenta previa. She suffered from a brief period of mechanical ventilation and administration of exogenous ...
azithromycin, drug resistance, nontuberculous mycobacteria, pulmonary, treatment outcome
Chest HRCT scan after 12 months of antibiotic therapy. (A and B) Most of the lung lesions are absorbed, but there were still some strip shadows in both lungs (arrows). . Abbreviation: HRCT, high-resolution computed tomography.
PMC6529672_01
Female
0
A 4-month-old female infant, born prematurely at 30 weeks and weighing 1,550 g, was hospitalized after 4 days of cough and fever. Her past history included a controlled premature birth by cesarean section due to placenta previa. She suffered from a brief period of mechanical ventilation and administration of exogenous ...
azithromycin, drug resistance, nontuberculous mycobacteria, pulmonary, treatment outcome
Chest HRCT scan after 12 months of antibiotic therapy. (A and B) Most of the lung lesions are absorbed, but there were still some strip shadows in both lungs (arrows). . Abbreviation: HRCT, high-resolution computed tomography.
PMC10196485_01
Male
13
A 13-year-old male child was referred to local hospital due to 5 days of dizziness, and 2 days of fever and dyspnea. Except for a history of neurodermatitis cured by antihistamines, the patient had normal nutritional status without other previous underlying diseases, head injury and drug exposures. Additionally, routin...
case report, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, children, nephrotic syndrome, pulmonary embolism
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PMC5437806_01
Female
6
A 6-year-old female child of low socioeconomic status, was referred to Department of Orthopedics with the history of insidious onset stiffness of neck with minimal pain for 1 week. Patient's parent gave a history of tuberculosis contact, but had no history of trauma, evening increase of temperature, decrease appetite, ...
albendazole, intramedullary cervical spinal cysticercosis, neurological deficit
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PMC8214902_01
Male
27
A 27-year-old-male was allegedly beaten on the head with a wooden stick, following which he was immediately taken to a local civil hospital. There was no history of loss of consciousness, vomiting, seizure, or bleeding from the ear, nose, or throat. On medicolegal examination, an injury over the forehead's left side wa...
autopsy, invasive pulmonary aspergillosis, microscopy, neuroaspergillosis
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PMC6985093_01
Female
28
A 28-year-old female patient (K.) was admitted to N. N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology in June 2016 after being referred from another hospital for further diagnosis and being treated for multiple renal cell tumors. Patient K. gave informed consent to undergo diagnostic procedures and treatment, as...
met gene, germline mutation, hereditary cancer syndrome, kidney cancer, papillary renal cell carcinoma
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PMC6387709_01
Male
18
The patient is an 18-year-old boy not known to have any medical illness previously, who was referred to the outpatient department from another hospital after 3 months history of seizures. Seizures started with blurring of vision and proceed to right sided head deviation and tonic posturing of the right upper limp which...
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PMC6324914_05
Female
57
The first report of the deliberate transplantation of a liver from an HCV-viremic donor to a nonviremic recipient was published in August 2017. The recipient was a 57-year old woman with a history of Child-Turcotte-Pugh class A HCV cirrhosis, who had been on the liver transplant waiting list for 3 years. She had HCV ge...
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PMC6324914_07
Male
48
In the case from Singapore, the recipient was a 48-year-old man with chronic HBV and multifocal hepatocellular carcinoma that was outside of the eligibility criteria for liver transplantation in Singapore. The donor procured a commercial deceased donor liver graft in 2009 (country not reported), and was deeply jaundice...
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PMC6324914_08
Male
23
The flaviviruses Zika virus and WNV are discussed separately as pathogens of special interest in sections Zika Virus and West Nile Virus, respectively. The WHO declaration of global public health emergency in relation to the 2015/2016 Zika outbreak in Brazil and Central America prompted international authorities to dev...
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PMC6324914_10
Male
57
A cluster of fatal donor-derived arenavirus cases was reported in Australia in 2008, in which the infectious agent was a previously unidentified LCMV-related arenavirus. The donor in this cluster was a 57-year-old man who died of cerebral hemorrhage 10 days after returning to Australia from a 3-month visit to the forme...
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PMC6324914_11
Female
51
Numerous cases of unexpected tuberculosis transmission from donors to recipients have been reported in the literature (see Table 29). Given the difficulties of detecting tuberculosis in deceased donors, many of these cases involved donors with normal chest x-rays, no microscopic evidence of acid-fast bacilli, and/or ne...
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PMC6324914_14
Male
21
Directed antimicrobial prophylaxis in recipients has been shown to be effective in preventing transmission of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens. In a case report from the United States, Ariza-Heredia et al describe the use of organs from a donor known to be infected with carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae bef...
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PMC6324914_16
Female
38
The fourth reported case of donor-derived syphilis transmission was in a lung transplant recipient whose donor, a 38-year-old woman who died of subarachnoid bleeding, returned serology test results indicating past syphilis infection 1 day after transplantation had occurred. The recipient received penicillin G intraveno...
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PMC10362300_01
Female
59
A 59-year-old woman with right breast cancer presented to our department with suspicion of NTM infection based on abnormal lung opacities that had been detected 2 years ago. Because she had no respiratory symptoms and the opacities remained stable, she was initially monitored without medication. She underwent right bre...
clarithromycin, mycobacterium shinjukuense, mycobacterium tuberculosis, nontuberculous mycobacterium
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PMC9949745_01
Female
71
We present a case of a 71-year-old woman with a medical history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) stage Rai 0 Binet A diagnosed in 1997 (24 years before the hospitalization), previous Pneumocystis jirovecii infection, essential arterial hypertension, and hypothyroidism. She was medicated with levothyroxine 0.1mg, a...
b-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (b-cll), fever, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (hlh), hepatomegaly, septic shock
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PMC8473535_01
Male
53
53-year-old male truck driver with past medical history of benign prostatic hypertrophy and dyslipidemia, presented with diarrhea, weight loss, abdominal pain and fatigue for 4-5 months. He had multiple ER visits and hospitalizations for diarrhea, weight loss, dehydration, and abdominal pain in a four-month period. He ...
ct abdomen, mesenteric and retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy, pet-ct, tropheryma whipplei, whipple’s disease
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PMC3335727_01
Female
27
A 27 year-old, para 3 lady and her husband presented to our clinic with a one year history of secondary infertility that was labelled as unexplained after confirming normal gonadotrophins levels, hysterosalpingogram, and advanced semen analysis. The couple declined diagnostic laparoscopy and chose to undergo treatment ...
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PMC4276084_01
Female
31
We report the case of 31 years old female patient with endobronchial hamartoma diagnosed by CT scan after repeated episodes of chest pain and pyrosis. The first admission in March 2013, new mother for three months, the patient comes in pulmonology for the sudden appearance of stabbing chest pain, nocturnal cough and he...
ct scan, endobronchial lipomatous hamartoma, pregnancy, young new mother
Non contrast CT shows the presence of a well demarcated endobronchial (right main bronchus) mass characterized by smooth margins and negative density (-89 HU).
PMC4276084_01
Female
31
We report the case of 31 years old female patient with endobronchial hamartoma diagnosed by CT scan after repeated episodes of chest pain and pyrosis. The first admission in March 2013, new mother for three months, the patient comes in pulmonology for the sudden appearance of stabbing chest pain, nocturnal cough and he...
ct scan, endobronchial lipomatous hamartoma, pregnancy, young new mother
Oblique multiplanar CT reconstruction (lung window) shows entirely the mass within the right main bronchus lumen just before the bifurcation of the anterior segmental bronchus of the upper lobe and posterior segmental bronchus of the upper lobe.
PMC4276084_01
Female
31
We report the case of 31 years old female patient with endobronchial hamartoma diagnosed by CT scan after repeated episodes of chest pain and pyrosis. The first admission in March 2013, new mother for three months, the patient comes in pulmonology for the sudden appearance of stabbing chest pain, nocturnal cough and he...
ct scan, endobronchial lipomatous hamartoma, pregnancy, young new mother
Non contrast CT axial section (pulmonary window) shows the endobronchial mass (red arrow) that obstructs the right main bronchus.
PMC9798226_01
Male
20
The patient was a 20-year-old man of Chinese descent presenting with a painful nodule in the left plantar of the second toe for 1 month. For past history, the patient had surgery twice on the same site of the toe 6 years ago and relapsed 1 month later, and there was no other treatment except surgery. Unfortunately, the...
erg, ewsr1, smad3, case report, fibroblastic tumor
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PMC4695514_01
Male
21
On August 29, 2014, The Minister of Health officially announced the First Ebola virus disease case in Senegal. It was related to a 21-year-old national from Guinea, who had been in contact in Guinea with members of his family who had contracted the disease and eventually passed away. He entered Senegal by road, before ...
ebola, senegal, imported case, managment
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PMC9871303_01
Female
39
A 39-year-old hypertensive, non-diabetic female presented with one year history of moon facies, proximal myopathy, buffalo hump, abdominal striae, easy fatigability and hirsutism. The following laboratories were done and revealed a normal ACTH of 8.5 pg/mL [Reference range: 5-46 pg/mL] and elevated 1 mg Dexamethasone s...
adrenal adenoma, cushing’s syndrome, hematochezia, mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
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PMC6336602_01
Female
27
The patient was a 27-year-old woman with no relevant medical history or family history. In June 2016, she presented at our hospital for 4 months of intermittent fever with 3 and half months of fatigue and dark-colored urine. The patient developed fever (38.5 C) 4 months ago with no apparent cause. The fever type was i...
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PMC9245433_01
Male
46
In late August 2020, a 46-year-old male was admitted to our emergency department, with complaints of intermittent fever associated with fatigue and anorexia lasting for a month. He also complained of 30-kg weight loss within 5 months. The patient first visited a local hospital 2 weeks ago. Because of fever and lymphade...
hiv seronegativity, histoplasma capsulatum, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, histoplasmosis, immunocompetence, liposomal amphotericin b
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PMC7532949_01
Female
72
Madam A, a 72-year-old lady, was diagnosed with JAK2 V617F mutation polycythemia vera in 2019 and was treated with tablet hydroxyurea 500 mg daily and oral aspirin 75 mg daily. She required therapeutic phlebotomy once a week for the first month as her hematocrit level was persistently more than 50%. Prior to her diagno...
covid-19, case report, cerebral venous thrombosis, d-dimer, polycythemia vera
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PMC4339947_01
Female
3
A pregnant women (gravida 2) with a 3-year-old daughter delivered twins (diamniotic dichorionic) at 38 weeks of gestation as normal vaginal delivery. The newborns were normal at the time of birth, but presented with hyperbilirubinemia at 16 h of life. Mother was never transfused previously. Clinically both the newborns...
anti-m alloimmunization, hemolytic disease of newborn, pure red cell aplasia
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PMC8150260_01
Female
80
An 80-year-old woman presented to an outside hospital with fever and a dry cough. The patient's vital signs were as follows: respiratory rate, 20 breaths/min; blood pressure, 123/57 mmHg; heart rate, 85 beats/min; blood oxygen saturation, 96 %; and body temperature, 38.5 C. Based on her medical history, the patient was...
computed tomography, nontuberculous mycobacteria, x-ray
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PMC5370330_01
Male
36
A 36-year-old male presented to our hospital in 2006 with low back ache inflammatory type with symmetric joint pains involving large joints such as shoulder joints, hip joints, knee joints, and small joints such as metacarpophalangeal joints, elbow joints, and metatarsophalangeal joints. There was associated early morn...
ankylosing spondylitis, antitumor necrosis factor-alpha, infliximab, tuberculosis
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PMC9899455_01
Male
34
An otherwise healthy 34-year-old male presented with a loss of consciousness to the emergency department (ER). A gunshot wound entry was observed on his occiput with the right orbital swelling. His Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) was 10 (E3, V3, M4), with a left-sided weakness grade of 3 on the Medical Research Council of Can...
cranio-orbital, tbi, traumatic brain injury
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PMC9899908_01
Female
42
A 42-year-old woman presented with a 3-week history of a painless, mobile, firm, 2.5-cm lump in the lower outer quadrant of the left breast without axillary lymphadenopathy. No evidence of nipple retraction or discharge was observed. The physical exam of the contralateral breast was unremarkable. She was already known,...
breast malignancy, extraskeletal osteosarcoma, genomic profile, molecular therapy, primary breast osteosarcoma
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PMC4714468_01
Female
51
Patient information: Female, 51 years old Chief complaint: Eye congestion, foreign body sensation Past history: No remarkable past medical history Smoking history and alcohol history: None Occupational history: Meat cutting (duck parts). Worked since July 1, 2009. Present illness: Stinging eyes and foreign body sensati...
photokeratitis, poultry abattoir, south korea, ultraviolet
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PMC3914201_01
Male
53
A 53-year-old man with end-stage renal failure (ESRD) of unknown etiology was on hemodialysis (HD) since 1999. He underwent a first RT in 2000, with cyclosporine (CyA), mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), and prednisolone as immunosuppressive therapy. Renal graft was lost after 3 days, due to renal artery thrombosis. Second d...
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PMC3914201_02
Female
53
A 53-year-old woman, inactive carrier of hepatitis B and ESRD secondary to membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, was on HD since 1984. She underwent a deceased kidney transplantation in 2007, (CMV donor+/recipient+). Initial immunosuppressive therapy was daclizumab, prednisolone, MMF, and TAC. There were no delayed...
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PMC4430640_01
Female
25
Patient is a 25-year-old woman from Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, and was admitted with an 18-month history of dorsal back pain, asthenia, and significant weight loss followed in the last 8 months by loss of the ability to walk. On her physical examination she presented with three skin lesions (two ulcerated and one nodu...
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PMC8046554_01
Female
0
A 4-month-old Hispanic female was admitted with nearly 2-month history of cough, posttussive emesis, gagging while feeding, and failure to thrive. She was born in the United States at 38 weeks estimated gestation via spontaneous vaginal delivery with uncomplicated pregnancy and delivery. The infant had mild left hydron...
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PMC7276574_01
Male
14
In July 2018, a 14-year and 9-month-old Caucasian male patient, in good general health, presented with an onset of acute pain while attempting a kick with his contralateral leg during an amateur football match. He, also, noticed that an ecchymosis in the dorsal aspect of the left thigh formed shortly after the traumati...
apophysitis, ischial tuberosity, teenage athlete
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PMC8053472_01
Female
17
Five pediatric patients (including three female and two male) with ages ranged from 2 to 17 years old (average 9-years old). At admission all the patients presented hydrocephalus, and a ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) was subsequently placed. Physical examination revealed low weight in one subject and moderate malnutr...
coccidioidal meningitis, diagnosis, hydrocephalus, pediatric, serology
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PMC6694717_02
Male
40
A 40-year-old man from hills of Nepal presented to the emergency department of Patan Hospital in August 2018 with complaints of weakness in the right half of the body, deviation of the left side of the face and slurring of speech for 4 days. At 3 weeks prior to this, he had visited another tertiary level hospital in Ka...
communication, methotrexate, tuberculosis
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PMC8110398_01
Female
9
A 9-year-old generally healthy girl with a history of a small muscular ventricular septal defect presented to the emergency room with chest pain and dyspnea. She had recovered from a recent upper respiratory infection and had also sustained minor trauma to the anterior chest wall in a fall a week prior. At presentation...
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PMC6502708_01
Female
56
This is a report of a 56-year-old female patient who was admitted at our institution for the clarification of diffuse interstitial infiltrations of the lower lung lobes and hilar and mediastinal lymphadenopathy. A malignancy, in particular a non-Hodgkin lymphoma, was initially suspected and a mediastinoscopy was primar...
mediastinal lymph nodes, mediastinum (incl mediastinoscopy), thoracic surgery, ultrasound (all applications)
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PMC3540688_01
Female
40
The case concerns a 40-year-old woman who presented at our outpatient department with 2 years history of low back pain and lower limb weakness for 1 month. She presented to us with bladder incontinence and inability to ambulate. The bladder dysfunction had started 7 days before hospital presentation. On examination, s...
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PMC5679777_01
Male
61
A 61-year-old man with a known history of hypertension and gastroesophageal reflux disease presented to the emergency room with worsening abdominal pain, intractable nausea, and 3 days of vomiting. He was experiencing episodes of nonspecific abdominal pain that would last for 4-5 days every month for the previous year....
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PMC5869061_01
Female
29
A 29-year-old had previously undergone two caesarean sections, the second five months previously at a district general hospital. The operation and immediate postoperative period were uneventful. Three months later she noticed a purulent discharge from her wound. She was advised to take antibiotics and to dress the woun...
lower-segment caesarean section, tuberculosis, uterocutaneous fistula
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PMC7739786_01
Male
28
The person involved in the case study was a 28-year-old male with a BMI of 20. The program was adapted for Target heart rate (THR) training by High-intensity Interval training-based treadmill running. The training aimed to achieve the THR in peak HR for the maximum time possible, thus improving VO2 max (Tayler et al.,;...
thr, aerobic, exercise, memory reactivation, neuronal ensemble, peak heart rate
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PMC8574107_01
Female
68
A 68-year-old man with end-stage renal disease of unknown etiology underwent a KTx from a 32-year old deceased female donor, who died of head trauma (cytomegalovirus D-/R+, Epstein-Barr virus D+/R+). He had a past history of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease and squamous cell carcinoma of the tibia...
achromobacter denitrificans, everolimus, kidney transplantation, mtor inhibitors, oxidative burst generation, phagocytosis
Initial computed tomography (CT) of the lungs shows poorly defined bilateral patchy consolidations without pleural effusion,.
PMC9586509_01
Male
67
A 67-year-old male patient presented with worsening shortness of breath and productive cough with intermittent febrile episodes. He also complained of a 20-pound unintentional weight loss over the last few months. His medical history was positive for emphysema-type chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on 3 litr...
yellow nail syndrome, bronchiectasis, lymphoedema, pulmonary fibrosis
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PMC7586149_01
Female
53
A 53-year-old lady from Kathmandu presented with complaints of pain and swelling over the left arm following fall on the ground. She also complained of on and off productive mucoid cough since last six months. There is no history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary tuberculosis, hypertension, diabetes m...
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PMC9816960_01
Male
44
A 44-year-old obese black male patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease was hospitalized in August 2021 to explore pulmonary nodules incidentally discovered on a computed tomography performed while the patient was hospitalized for a renal cyst infection. The patient was born in Mali but had lived in Fr...
kidney transplantation, mycobacterium xenopi, non-tuberculous mycobacteria
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PMC2734930_01
Female
54
A 54-year-old Caucasian female presented to the clinic with epigastric pain and bloating after meals. Seven months ago she underwent a laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication for refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease in her native country. Her reflux symptoms started 2 years ago which included severe heartburn, retrost...
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PMC7252885_01
Male
16
The patient was a 16-year-old male with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who initially presented to his primary cardiologist after two episodes of syncope while playing competitive basketball. He had a muscular build including weight 86.9 kg (92nd percentile), stature 185.5 cm (92nd percentile), and body mass index 29...
lead migration, pediatric, subcutaneous intracardiac defibrillator
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PMC5749451_01
Male
40
In January 2016, a 40-year-old man sought care at a hospital in Alameda County, California, USA, with a 2-week history of progressive cough, dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, and headache associated with fevers, chills, and night sweats. He had lost 45 kg during the past month. He had a history of inconsistently treated H...
aids, california, hiv, emmonsiosis, endemic dimorphic fungi, mycosis, opportunistic infection, viruses
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PMC9932527_01
Male
49
A 49-year-old male patient who came to our hospital for three weeks of lung shadow found on physical examination had no cough and sputum, no dyspnea, no appetite or weight loss, no fever, chest pain or hemoptysis, no previous diabetes, no history of trauma or radiation exposure. He had surgery for a fracture of the lef...
case report, morphology, siderosis, tuberculosis, welder
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PMC4443886_01
Female
9
A 9-year-old girl presented to the Outpatient Otolaryngology Department with swelling under the right jaw that had slowly increased in size for the past two years. There was no associated fever, pain, voice changes, breathing difficulty, dysphagia, odynophagia, weight loss, and/or history of exposure to tuberculosis. T...
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PMC8077407_01
Male
21
A young farmer (21-year-old male) presented with parietooccipital headache and lower back pain. He had no further neurological deficits. A year previously, he had presented with an epileptic seizure, and cranial MRI had shown a frontal tumor, typical for a low-grade astrocytoma. A biopsy had been indicated, but the pat...
glioblastoma, leptomeningeal spread, meningitis, primary brain tumor
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PMC9288144_01
Male
50
Patient information: the patient, Mr. S was 50 years old, lived in Tambak Asri, was married, self-employed, with high school education, Javanese, Muslim. He had been treated at the Dr. Soetomo Hospital on November 21, 2018. The patient presented to the hospital complaining of a swelling on the right leg which occurred ...
deep vein thrombosis, case report, double lumen catheter, hemodialysis
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PMC7984901_01
Male
13
A 13-year-old male presented in the emergency department with his little finger of the nondominant hand injured while playing basketball. An axial compression with an excessive hyperextension was applied to the tip of his finger while he tried to steal the ball during the game. On physical examination, the finger was f...
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PMC7984901_02
Male
16
A 16-year-old male sustained a hyperextension injury in his index finger of the dominant had while playing football (goalkeeper). The ball had hit to the tip of his finger while he tried to get the ball away from his goal post. On physical examination, the finger was markedly deformed with swelling and difficulty on mo...
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PMC8627974_01
Male
46
A 46-year-old man presented to the Emergency Department complaining of acute onset diplopia for one day, as well as worsening intermittent occipital headaches over the past 3 months. His medical history was significant for HIV/AIDS with most recent CD4 count 100 cells/muL and viral load 38,541 copies/mL, with poor adhe...
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, central nervous system, fungal lung diseases, hiv, lacunar stroke, mycoses, stroke, vasculitis
Chest CT scan with contrast revealing bilateral micronodules predominantly in the upper lung fields in a "miliary pattern" (coronal view).
PMC8114242_01
Male
36
A 36-year-old African American male with a past medical history of HIV (diagnosed in 2005) presented to the emergency department for generalized weakness, fever, and dizziness on ambulation. The patient has not been taking his anti-HIV medications for past 3 years. Review of system positive for non-bloody diarrhea, 40 ...
hiv, mtb, mycobacterium avium, mycobacterium tuberculosis, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, immunosuppression, mycobacterial spindle cell pseudotumor, spindle cell tumor
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PMC8320547_01
Female
15
A 15-year-old female from the Macanao municipality on the Margarita's Island in Venezuela presented to the local health center with a 6-month history of intermittent fever predominantly occurring at night, malaise, 6 kg weight loss, arthralgias, loss of appetite, dizziness, and amenorrhea. The patient lives in a rural ...
caribbean, margarita island, venezuela, amastigote, endemic, visceral leishmaniasis
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PMC9745302_02
Male
58
A 58-year-old man presented with chest tightness, cough, and asthma without fever in late October 2020. The patient took aminophylline and inhaled budesonide, but without obvious effect. His condition began to worsen gradually and he was admitted to a local hospital on 4 November, 2020. Electrocardiogram showed an elev...
loeffler endocarditis, anticoagulant, corticosteroid, eosinophilia, thrombus
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PMC6038329_01
Male
21
A 21-year-old male was admitted with the acute onset of hemoptysis. The night prior to admission he had smoked several (>5) marijuana joints and subsequently developed blood streaked sputum that became bloodier over time. He presented to ER found to have in no distress but was coughing up blood. Vital signs: Blood pres...
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PMC7364806_01
Male
44
A 44-year-old male patient complaining of dyspnea, severe pain, and progressive swelling in his jaw and neck for the last 14 days came to our emergency unit. Due to the rapidly extending swelling, he was hospitalized for 5 days in a private hospital, where a chest X-ray, neck, and soft tissue X-ray (Figure 1) and blood...
ludwig’s angina, ludwig’s angina management, septic shock
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PMC3085480_01
Male
27
A 27-year-old Somalian man, who had immigrated to the Netherlands in 1998, was referred in March 2005 with persistent bilateral otitis media, progressive hearing loss, and tinnitus since eight months, which had been unresponsive to several courses of antibiotics. Other complaints were malaise, fever, anorexia, and weig...
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PMC5804607_01
Female
81
An 81-year-old woman (160 cm, 60 kg) was transferred from a district general hospital to our hospital for treatment of congestive heart failure. At admission, the patient presented with a nonproductive cough, dyspnea, edema in both lower extremities, orthopnea, fever, and occult blood in the stool, all of which began t...
bacillus cereus, immunocompetent patient, pneumonia
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PMC5836235_01
Female
50
A 50-year-old woman has suffered from repeated abdominal pain for 6 years. She had had a history of lung tuberculosis 10 years ago; consequently, she had received standard anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy for 9 months. The patient presented with acute lower right abdominal pain for 1 day due to intestinal obstruction pro...
crohn's disease, ileum histoplasmosis, intestinal tuberculosis
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PMC5965317_01
Female
22
A 22-year-old woman was referred by the critical care team of a district general hospital (DGH) to our regional burns unit with 100% TBSA involvement following toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) on the background of GPA. The patient initially presented to the DGH with a fever, shortness of breath and feeling generally un...
toxic epidermal necrolysis, wegener’s granulomatosis, burns unit, concurrent, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, treatment
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PMC8720442_01
Female
3
A 3-year-old girl was brought by her parents to the neurosurgery department with complaints of difficulty walking for 4 months. The patient had a backward bending posture while walking. She swayed to one side and dragged her right lower limb. She also had difficulty wearing her slippers. She was not able to bend forwar...
antitubercular treatment, pediatric spine, spinal intramedullary lesion, tuberculoma
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PMC8761856_01
Female
69
This is a Chinese case of a 69-year-old female who noticed distention of the hypogastrium accompanied by constipation 20 days ago. No pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, oppression in the chest, jaundice, and bloody stool were found during the period, and she went to the local hospital and received enema treatment. However,...
tmb, case report, gallbladder, hepatoid adenocarcinoma, immunocytochemistry
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PMC3327677_01
Unknown
14
This study is a retrospective review of clinical and laboratory records from hospital databases. Case files for children 0-14 years old admitted to any of the ICUs with a suspicion of malaria between January 2004 to December 2009 were reviewed for: (1) ICU logbooks (in which demographic data from each admitted patient,...
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PMC4532054_01
Female
21
A 21-year-old Korean woman had suffered from dyspnea and cough for the past 3 months. She was healthy until 2 years ago, when she first noticed both knee joints to swell and subside spontaneously. She also experienced intermittent both lower leg pain. Two months ago, chest P-A showed heterogenous, hazy, streaky densiti...
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The computerized tomogram of thorax reveals 5x5 cm-sized, round, mass with surrounding low density suggesting pulmonary artery aneurysm with thrombosis in left lung.
PMC9673929_01
Male
35
A 35-year-old male previously healthy surgeon sustained a needlestick injury while performing thoracentesis on a patient with smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and was suspected of tuberculous pleurisy on November 9, 2012. The source patient was admitted to the local hospital because of respiratory failure, b...
cutaneous tuberculosis, inoculation tuberculosis, occupational exposure, tubercular tenosynovitis
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PMC4779352_01
Female
5
A middle-aged female clinical doctor with no previous data of serious ill conditions had got over the chicken pox in early childhood (when she was five years old). She had no feeling of any health disorder but these days in the beginning of November of 2015 year she had too much work in her workplace in the hospital: i...
herpes zoster, ulnar localization
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PMC9429994_01
Female
82
Only four persons interviewed had personal memories of the outbreak that occurred in the early 1950's. Two of them had been involved as veterinarians in the 1950's. Now 82 years old a zootechnician (who worked in the 1950's) recalled that people wondered at the time how the disease suddenly came to Estonia and why. The...
soviet union veterinary system, collective farms, distortion of the truth, foot-and-mouth disease, veterinary treatment of cattle
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PMC4720548_01
Female
9
We report a 9 year-old Chinese girl, born full term with no family history of recurrent infections or immunodeficiency. She had received hepatitis B and BCG vaccinations at birth without complications. She had multiple infections in infancy including Klebsiella pneumoniae urinary tract infection at 1 month and another ...
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PMC4720548_02
Female
8
At 8 years old, when anti-tuberculosis medications had already been stopped, and 4 months after stopping subcutaneous rIFN-gamma there was recurrence of infections including Pseudomonas aeruginosa pansinusitis and notable complications of bronchiectasis diagnosed on high resolution CT. Subcutaneous rIFN-gamma was recom...
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PMC10267541_01
Female
34
In 2014, a 34-year-old woman from Ivory Coast visited our clinic with signs of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and a positive chlamydia antibody test. Ultrasound imaging revealed large abscesses, and blood tests showed elevated infection parameters. She underwent laparoscopic surgery; during which, the left obstructe...
female genital tuberculosis, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, pregnancy loss, subfertility issues, transplacental exposure
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PMC10267541_02
Female
38
At the time of pregnancy, she was 38 years old. At 10 weeks gestation, a normal ultrasound was performed without any anomalies. However, at 18 weeks gestation, the patient experienced vaginal bleeding, and an extensive ultrasound revealed a sub-placental hematoma. The fetus did not have any structural abnormalities, an...
female genital tuberculosis, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, pregnancy loss, subfertility issues, transplacental exposure
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PMC3336251_01
Female
75
A 75-year-old woman was seen at a local hospital with a chief complaint of febrile illness and myalgia. She had a heart rate of 145 bpm and a systolic blood pressure of 140 mmHg (Figure 1). Past medical history was unremarkable. She reported no known drug allergies and no current medications. There was no recent travel...
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PMC5309401_01
Male
39
A comatose, circulatory stable, but hypoventilating patient was intubated at the scene and brought in to the emergency department by ambulance. The past medical history, which was provided by his grandmother, revealed that this 39-year-old man had lived with her for many years. The previous weeks prior to presentation ...
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PMC4258348_01
Male
15
A 15-year-old male presented with complaints of moderate grade fever for 4 months and generalized body swelling with facial puffiness for 2 months. There was no history of cough, weight loss, joint pain, oral ulcerations, skin rash, photosensitivity, loss of hair, pain abdomen, jaundice, or any significant illness in t...
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PMC5633160_01
Male
75
A 75-year old man with hypertension, but otherwise healthy, was referred to our Cardiology department for a tentative diagnosis of congestive heart failure. Symptoms included fatigue, progressive dyspnea, position-dependent chest pain and pitting edema of the lower extremities. The symptoms had developed over a two-mon...
constrictive, cutibacterium, pericardiectomy, pericarditis, propionibacterium
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