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PMC5871376_01
Female
15
A 15-year-old female patient presented with a 4-year history of pustular lesions on the proximal region of the upper limbs with a subsequent impairment of the chest and abdomen. During this period, the lesions showed temporary episodes of improvement that evolved with residual hyperchromic macules. Physical examination...
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PMC9373126_01
Male
12
A 12-year-old Saudi Arabian boy of consanguineous parents first presented in 2009 at the age of 7 months with chronic diarrhea, poor weight gain, malnutrition, and an eczematous skin rash. Anti-tissue transglutaminase IgA was slightly elevated [39.3 units, upper limit of normal (ULN) = 0-20] and mucosal biopsy of the d...
cd25, il2ra, granuloma, hepatitis, immune disease, immunodeficiency
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PMC6626469_02
Female
10
P7: And if you go there, get the (case) paper issued...then wait in line...even then they don't treat properly, don't touch us, they just give the medicine and ask us to go. (Community discussion, Mixed gender group, Location: Far from district head-quarters (>60 km), primary health center in the same village as place ...
contextual factors, health policy and systems research, peripheral health clinics, primary health care
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PMC7723782_04
Male
77
This is the case of a 77-year-old man with hypertension, emphysema, and old tuberculosis, who is an ex-smoker and who presented with fever and sore throat. Levofloxacin and ciclesonide were administered on day 8 for bilateral pneumonia with respiratory failure. He was diagnosed with COVID-19 on day 10. He needed IMV du...
covid-19, late phase, steroid, steroid pulse therapy
Computed tomography of the chest during the clinical course in case 1. It showed bilateral peripheral ground glass opacities on day 11 (on admission). These opacities progressed consolidation with traction bronchiectasis and volume loss on day 19 (the day steroid pulse therapy was started). Patient almost recovered fro...
PMC6886192_01
Male
22
The 22-year-old male patient presented at age 14 years with epistaxis related to severe thrombocytopenia. Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) was diagnosed and he was initially treated with high doses of prednisone. Prior to immunosuppression, his immunoglobulins had been measured and were found to be in the normal r...
cvid, diagnostic criteria, ivig, neurosarcoidosis, sarcoidosis
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PMC5831968_01
Male
12
A 12-year-old boy a known case of relapsed AML has been admitted with impression of febrile neutropenia after the last course of chemotherapy on 16 April 2016. He received the FLAI regimen including fludarabine, cytarabine, and idarubicin (FLAI). After full sepsis workup, meropenem was started and cotrimoxazole (TMP/SM...
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PMC3700482_01
Male
46
In October 2011, the authors visited a 46-year-old immigrant Moroccan for the first time. The patient reported having suffered 4-6 months from a relentless hiccup, irregular dyspeptic illness, a lack of appetite, a tense (but not painful) abdomen, and weight loss. He did not report fever or sweating. The examination sh...
ascitic fluid cytology, diagnostic laparoscopy, hiccup and ascites, tuberculous peritonitis, ultrasound tomography and computed tomography scan
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PMC9773131_02
Male
10
Past medical history was significant for a "birthmark" extending over his abdomen and lower back, for which multiple excision/grafting procedures were performed at 6 years of age. He denied any itching, bleeding, or noticeable changes in the lesion's size, texture, color, or appearance for the last 20 years. The patien...
mdm2 amplification, nras mutation, congenital melanocytic nevi, giant nevus, metastatic melanoma
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PMC9998481_01
Female
78
Thirty-one patients were included in the case series: 14 females (14/31; 45%) and 17 males (17/31; 55%), with a mean age of 78-years-old (SD +- 9 years) (Table 2). Patients had a variety of comorbidities and 13 were on blood thinners, as indicated in Table 2. The average width of the tumor excision (recipient site pre-...
eyelid graft, eyelid reconstruction, eyelid surgery, free bilamellar autograft, full thickness eyelid defect, large eyelid defect
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PMC8864130_01
Female
16
A 16-year-old female was admitted to Kyungpook National University Children's Hospital with complaints of diarrhea, hematochezia, and weight loss for a year. She had been diagnosed with latent TB 1 month before her visit, and a latent TB treatment regimen with isoniazid (INH) for 9 months had been started. She had comp...
crohn's disease, pott's disease, infliximab, tuberculosis, tumor necrosis factor, vedolizumab
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PMC5165133_01
Female
78
A 78-year-old Japanese woman was found to have anaemia and reticular shadows on her chest X-ray during a health examination, for which she came to our hospital. She did not have any symptoms, including fever, cough, and purulent sputum, at that time. Her dietary habits were normal and she had not experienced any weight...
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PMC9246625_01
Male
24
The patient was a 24-year-old white male without pretransplant autoimmune conditions, diagnosed with precursor-B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in 2008. Cytogenetic analysis demonstrated near hypertriploid karyotype with trisomy 4, 10, and 17. After being treated with multiagent chemotherapy according to the A...
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PMC10160796_01
Male
54
A 54-year-old previously healthy gentleman presented with 1-month history of persistent low back pain. The pain started suddenly, was dull in nature, non-radiating, and worse during the night. No alleviating or exacerbating factors. While he denied symptoms of urinary incontinence, saddle anesthesia, or peripheral numb...
sarcoidosis, diagnostics, imaging, metastasis, pathology
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PMC9282698_01
Female
22
We report a case of a 22-year-oldfemale patient, diagnosed to have HIV infection 8 years back. She was on antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the last 8 years. The patient had not been taking ART regularly for the last 2 years. Her CD4 count had gradually fallen to 238/mm3 from 520/mm3 over 2 years. She presented to us wi...
encephalitis, epstein-barr virus, hiv
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PMC3204652_02
Female
73
L. feeleii was first described in 1984 as the causative agent of a Pontiac fever outbreak. L. feeleii was responsible, according to a recent review, for only 10 reported cases of infections, all of which were pneumonia, only 1 complicated by endocarditis. Unlike lung abscesses, cutaneous lesions caused by Legionella sp...
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PMC8046476_01
Female
13
A 13-year-old right-handed girl fell on an out-stretched right arm after being tackled while playing basketball. The patient did not feel pain in the early stages. As the swelling of the elbow increased, the patient admitted to a state hospital's emergency service. A dorsal splint was applied as a first intervention an...
pediatric, late diagnosis, open reduction, radial neck fracture
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PMC3065044_01
Male
14
A 14-year-old boy presented to us in July 2009 with low-grade, evening rise fever since March 2008. He also complained of reduction in appetite and weight loss of 8 kg during this period. He had a mild dry cough. However, there was no history of shortness of breath, chest pain, hemoptysis, hoarseness of voice, or dysph...
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PMC3781908_01
Male
30
The subject was a 30-year old male with a body height of 1.80 m, a body mass of 93.8 kg, and a body mass index of 29.0 kg/m2. He was an experienced ultraendurance athlete (world champion in the Deca Iron ultratriathlon 2008, a world record holder in the 10-day triathlon, a finisher of the Trans Europe Footrace in 2009 ...
ambient temperature, endocrine regulation, skin temperature, sweat production, thermoregulation
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PMC7490556_01
Male
50
A 50-year-old male, smoker (50 packs/year), was diagnosed in 2000 with chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) and was admitted to a local hospital complaining of chest pain, cough with purulent sputum up to 150 ml/day, dyspnea on excretion and fever up to 39 S. He was treated with Amoxillin, Tiotropium bromide and Sal...
bullae lung disease, cysts, lung vessels malformation, vanishing lung syndrome
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PMC6877748_01
Female
2
The girl was the firstborn child of healthy nonconsanguineous Chinese parents from Anhui Province. She was cesarean born with a length of 47 cm (-2 SD), weight of 3180 g (-1 SD), and a head circumference of 31 cm (<-2 SD). From birth onward, she had feeding problems and febrile seizures, regularly. The electroencephalo...
dyrk1a, intellectual disability, microcephaly, nonsense mutation, whole-exome sequencing
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PMC3331879_01
Male
47
A 47-year-old local male presented with an 8-year history of severe disabling palmoplantar psoriasis. He was both hypertensive and diabetic (controlled adult onset). He had no previous history of systemic medications and showed low compliance with phototherapy. He was mainly treated with local applications of steroids,...
biologics, psoriasis, reactivation, tuberculosis
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PMC3331879_02
Male
38
A 38-year-old local male presented with a 23-year history of generalized plaque psoriasis. His BMI was 42, with a physician global assessment (PGA) of 4. He suffered from joint pain in both small and large joints, with no radiological findings. He had a positive family history but no history of systemic medications. Th...
biologics, psoriasis, reactivation, tuberculosis
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PMC3331879_03
Male
33
A 33-year-old local male presented with generalized psoriasis of PGA 3. He is the younger brother of case 2, however, with a less severe condition, lower BMI and no associated comorbidities. He was treated with short, irregular courses of narrow-band UVB due to poor compliance and no history of systemic therapy. The pa...
biologics, psoriasis, reactivation, tuberculosis
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PMC5449726_01
Female
63
A 63-year-old female presented to her primary care physician with a 6-day history of fever, cough, and dyspnea. Her cough was productive of green sputum that was occasionally streaked with blood. She had mild chest discomfort but no chest pain or pleurisy at that time. Review of systems was otherwise unremarkable. Her ...
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PMC9479327_01
Female
74
Silica is one of the most abundant minerals on earth, and exposure to silica dust has been identified as a risk factor for many SARDs, including SS, RA, SLE, and AAV. Individuals working in agriculture, mills, drilling, painting, and textiles have been identified to have a greater risk of developing AAV disease. Multip...
aav (anca-associated vasculitis), anca, air pollution, environmental risks, etiology, vasculitis
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PMC7785387_01
Male
76
We present the case of a 76-year-old male with a history of benign prostatic hyperplasia and bladder cancer diagnosed in 2018. Following a transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) procedure, he received intravesical BCG. In May 2019, he presented with severe back pain and radiculopathy. A lumbar MRI study showe...
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PMC3785350_01
Male
17
A 17 year old Saudi male was diagnosed to have Pre-B ALL in March 2002 at King Fahad National Guard Hospital in Riyadh. He presented with fever, mucosal bleeding, generalized external lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly, thrombocytopenia, normal WBC count and Hb level, blasts on the blood film and a heavy infiltration of the...
acute lymphoblatic leukemia, cytomegalovirus, graft versus host disease, hematopoietic stem cell transplant
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PMC9367683_01
Female
23
A 23-year-old woman (gravida 1, para 0) weighing 60 kg was transferred to our hospital due to persistent fever up to 39 C for three days with bilateral edema of the lower limbs at 24 weeks of gestation. She had no history of autoimmune disease, and her family history was unremarkable. Upon examination, the following vi...
syntaxin 11, cyclosporine a, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, pregnant, systemic lupus erythematosus
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PMC5491814_01
Female
74
A 74-year-old woman presented in September 2014 with a 2-week history of dry cough followed by progressive dyspnea and a fever. She was diagnosed with bacterial pneumonia 10 days later, for which she had received treatment with levofloxacin (500 mg/day orally) for 2 weeks, and was referred to our hospital with complain...
bronchoscopy, cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (cop), fibrosing organizing pneumonia (fop), rapidly progressive bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia
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PMC4745912_01
Female
18
An 18-year-old girl with history of chronic sinusitis and repeated childhood chest infections was referred to our hospital for work up of a nonresolving pneumonia. The patient was first seen and evaluated in Pulmonology Clinic. She had a chronic productive cough but no fever, weight loss, or hemoptysis. Chest X-ray rev...
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PMC6936928_01
Female
93
A 93-year-old Caucasian woman was referred to the Internal Medicine Consultation due to cervical adenopathies with 3 months duration. With respect to past medical history, 4 years earlier she had been diagnosed with cutaneous sarcomatoid carcinoma of the face and submitted to surgical excision. The patient denied havin...
cervical lymphadenopathy, cervical tuberculous lymphadenitis, differential diagnosis, excisional biopsy, fine needle aspiration biopsy
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PMC10333992_01
Female
11
An 11-year-old girl was admitted in the pediatric infectious department of Imam Hossein Children's Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, due to pain and swelling around the left eye (Figure 1). The patient developed redness and photophobia a week before admission, then gradually developed pain in the eye mo...
behçet’s disease, case report, episcleritis, uveitis
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PMC4239444_02
Female
77
A 77-year-old Tunisian woman was hospitalized because of massive painful ascites. Her family history did not include any autoimmune disease. She denied a history of hepatitis, jaundice or alcohol use. She had a history of diabetes, hypertension treated by glinide and calcium blocker. She was explored 4 years prior to a...
ascites, hydroxychloroquine, old-onset, systemic lupus erythematosus
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PMC10219828_01
Female
0
Patient information: a 9-month-old female presented with a history of poor weight gain from birth, cough, and fever of 2 weeks, fast breathing of 1 week, and refusal to suck for one day. Weight loss was progressive despite adequate feeding. Cough was distressful, non-paroxysmal with no history of contact with an adult ...
patent ductus arteriosus, case report, children, comorbidity, tuberculosis
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PMC7160728_01
Female
50
A 50-year-old woman was admitted to our outpatient clinic for medical workup of a severe form of postprandial hypoglycaemia. Seven years earlier, a Roux-Y gastric bypass was performed due to morbid obesity (preoperative BMI 44.7 kg/m2and weight 129 kg). Within two years, the patient lost 57 kg (BMI 25.5 kg/m2). A year ...
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PMC5430503_01
Male
42
A 42-year-old male presented to the medical emergency department with complaints of weakness and significant weight loss over 1 year. He had episodes of low-grade fever in the past year, for which the patient was treated for pulmonary tuberculosis 2 years back. At present, he was again put on antitubercular therapy (AT...
co-infection, human immunodeficiency virus, lymph node, visceral leishmaniasis
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PMC4247291_01
Female
19
A previously healthy 19-year-old female of Asian ethnic origin, visited our hospital for an evaluation of abnormal chest CT findings on routine physical examination. On admission the patient was asymptomatic, without fever, cough, lymphadenopathy, night sweats or weight loss. As shown in Table I, the patient had normal...
lymphoma, mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue, pulmonary
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PMC7431457_01
Female
27
A 27-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital (Nov 2, 2018), complaining of two weeks of cough, intermittent low fever and dyspnea during daily activity. Four months prior to the admission, she underwent a renal transplantation because of kidney failure caused by chronic glomerulonephritis. Following successful tran...
pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia, diagnosis, metagenomic next-generation sequencing, renal transplant
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PMC5892343_01
Male
14
An otherwise healthy 14-year-old boy was admitted to the emergency unit of the Department of Ophthalmology, Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece, complaining of swelling of his right eye. A few hours earlier, he had sustained a blunt trauma to his right orbit as the result of an elbow strike during a basket...
enophthalmos, isolated medial orbital wall fracture, periorbital emphysema
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PMC9289754_01
Female
29
A 29-year-old Algerian woman with a history of schizophrenia was referred to our Mental Health Center (MHC) by her primary care physician because of severe behavioral alterations and positive psychotic symptoms consisting of delusions and verbal hallucinations. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 19 in her home...
atypical antipsychotics, cariprazine, clozapine, resistant schizophrenia, schizophrenia
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PMC5577081_01
Female
58
A 58-year-old woman visited her primary physician with a chief complaint of exertional dyspnea that began 2 months before hospitalization. Chest radiography showed a reticulated pattern in both lower lung fields and bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy. The patient was referred to our hospital and admitted for further evalu...
exertional dyspnea, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease, sudden death
a: Chest CT on initial admission (lung fields). Ground glass opacities with lobular septal thickening were predominant in both lower lobes.
PMC5577081_01
Female
58
A 58-year-old woman visited her primary physician with a chief complaint of exertional dyspnea that began 2 months before hospitalization. Chest radiography showed a reticulated pattern in both lower lung fields and bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy. The patient was referred to our hospital and admitted for further evalu...
exertional dyspnea, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease, sudden death
c: Chest CT on initial admission (mediastinum). Pulmonary artery enlargement was observed.
PMC5577081_01
Female
58
A 58-year-old woman visited her primary physician with a chief complaint of exertional dyspnea that began 2 months before hospitalization. Chest radiography showed a reticulated pattern in both lower lung fields and bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy. The patient was referred to our hospital and admitted for further evalu...
exertional dyspnea, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease, sudden death
a: Chest CT on readmission (lung fields). An increase in the reticular granular pattern was observed, predominantly in both lower lobes, along with increased pulmonary vascular markings.
PMC9852885_01
Female
2
A two-year-old girl was hospitalized for "hepatic dysfunction and recurring oral candidiasis for more than ten months." She was hospitalized at a local hospital with "bronchitis" at the age of one year and one month, where she was found to have liver dysfunction with ALT and AST levels of 624 U/l and 644 U/l, respectiv...
gof-stat1 mutation, chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, fungal infections, liver dysfunction, pediatric
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PMC3295742_01
Male
23
A 23-year-old male presented in the emergency department of a district general hospital with an acute onset of left upper quadrant abdominal pain and a syncopal episode one hour prior to his admittance. Abdominal pain had a sudden outburst while the patient was resting at home, and there was no indication of trauma his...
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PMC3064863_01
Male
49
In mid-January 2010, a 49-year-old male with pulmonary asthma and a prior history of nasal polyps woke up at 00.30 at night with a feeling of tongue swollenness. Upon standing up, he noticed paraesthesia of the left hand and a left facial droop. When the emergency medical staff arrived, he was sitting, his speech was b...
atrial septal defect, churg-strauss syndrome, eosinophilia, factor v leiden, haemorrhagic stroke, patent foramen ovale, small vessel vasculitis, mutation
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PMC5702861_01
Female
28
A 28 years old female presented to ENT outdoor with complaint of growth over hard palate and pain in the lesion for 2 months. Patient had episodes of bleeding from the growth off and on. The growth was polypoidal, exophytic, firm and bled on touch. The general physical examination did not reveal any abnormality. Howeve...
ceber, case report, extramedullary myeloma, multiple myeloma in young, plasmablastic lymphoma, plasmablastic myeloma
CT scan showing heterogenously enhancing nodular lesion causing destruction of hard palate and alveolar process of maxilla.
PMC8255476_02
Female
6
She was placed in foster care at the age of 6 years old due to severe neglected behaviors from her parents. She has experienced a very insecure environment leading to an early attachment disorder and anxiety disorder. During primary school, major global learning disabilities were reported. In this context, she was eval...
child and adolescent psychiatry, clozapine, cytochrome polymorphism, fluvoxamine, resistant psychiatric disorder
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PMC8255476_03
Male
9
B is a 9-year-old African boy who was born at term after a normal pregnancy. He was placed in foster care at the age of 3 years old due to severe physical and psychological violence within the family and severe neglected care. He barely had contact with his mother and his father. His family background is marked with a ...
child and adolescent psychiatry, clozapine, cytochrome polymorphism, fluvoxamine, resistant psychiatric disorder
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PMC9677258_01
Female
77
This study included 374 patients who underwent surgery for TBPI. Of these, 322 (86.10%) were males and 52 (13.90%) females. The median age of these patients was 26 years (7-77). Dividing these patients into age groups, 45.45% of patients were between 20 and 29 years of age with 86.47% of them were males (Figure 1). The...
epidemiologic study, surgical treatment, tertiary hospital, traumatic brachial plexus injury
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PMC6761247_01
Female
0
A 10-week-old extremely preterm girl was admitted to our hospital for severe paroxysmal cyanosis and tachypnea. The infant was the product of a 25-week-and-4-day gestation and was a test-tube baby, from a gestational diabetes mother. The pregnancy was otherwise uneventful. A vaginal delivery was performed. The infant w...
stenotrophomonas maltophilia, infant, metagenomics, next-generation sequencing, severe pneumonia
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PMC9218804_01
Female
58
Case 1. Diffuse large B cell lymphoma. A 58-year-old female presented after 2 months with right chest and back pain with no fever ( Figure 4A ). A CT scan revealed destruction of the 9th thoracic vertebra and the right appendix with paravertebral soft tissue shadow ( Figure 4B ). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reveal...
copy number variation, infection, next-generation sequencing, pathogen, tumor
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PMC9234253_01
Male
77
A 77-year-old man with a history of abnormal chest radiography finding was referred to our hospital. The patient had hypertension, dyslipidemia, and an operative history (total resection for prostate cancer). He had a 20-pack-year smoking history but no family history of connective tissue and pulmonary diseases. Labora...
pulmonary amyloidosis, surgical lung biopsy, transbronchial cryobiopsy
Chest computed tomography scan revealed ground-glass opacity in the basal area of both lungs and nodule in the left lower lobe.
PMC9234253_02
Male
62
A 62-year-old man with systemic AL amyloidosis was admitted to our hospital because of fever. The patient had noticed bilateral leg edema one year ago, and an annual medical check-up revealed an abundance of protein in the urine. He was referred to a different hospital for further investigation and a renal biopsy, foll...
pulmonary amyloidosis, surgical lung biopsy, transbronchial cryobiopsy
Chest computed tomography scan revealed right pleural effusion and multiple micronodules with a random distribution in both lung fields.
PMC6477468_01
Male
72
A 72-year-old male was admitted to the hospital due to chronic rhinosinusitis and recurrent nasal polyps. Additionally, numerous hemorrhagic bullae, palpable purpura, and necrotic maculae on the face and upper and lower limbs were found, as well as oral ulcers (Fig. 1). Red skin lesions on his face had appeared during ...
antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis, azathioprine, eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis
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PMC3634206_01
Female
25
A 25-year-old female presented with a painless lump in her right breast for 1 month duration. She gave history of low grade fever off and on for the last 2 weeks. There were no other complaints like weight loss, loss of appetite, and any cough. She was unmarried and there was no positive family history of breast tuberc...
abscess, breast, extra–pulmonary, infra-mammary, lump, tuberculosis
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PMC4835740_01
Male
24
A 24-year-old man presented to the emergency department with dyspnea and persistent cough. In physical exam, no abnormality was found. His past medical history was normal. Such an episode occasionally presented in the past year. There was no recent weight loss, cough, sputum production, exposure to tuberculosis, joint ...
cardiac surgery, mediastinal cyst, pericardial cyst
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PMC2813617_01
Female
18
An 18-year-old female with recurrent esophageal variceal bleeding due to extrahepatic portal venous obstruction was referred to us for surgical management. On general physical examination she was pale. There was no jaundice or lymphadenopathy. Abdominal examination disclosed a massive splenomegaly (12 cm below the cost...
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PMC7403915_01
Female
37
A 37-year-old female with no past medical or ocular history presented with 2 weeks of redness, pain, and photophobia of her right eye (OD). She was diagnosed with acute anterior uveitis by an outside provider and started on topical difluprednate four times daily (QID) and cyclopentolate once daily (QD) OD. Upon present...
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PMC6029598_01
Female
64
Hypertension is highly prevalent in Malawi with nearly a third of 25- to 64-year-olds having raised blood pressure or taking antihypertensive medication. This is consistent with data that suggest an increasing prevalence throughout the African region with a marked rural-urban gradient implicating changes in lifestyle a...
malawi, cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, non-communicable diseases
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PMC9048082_01
Male
64
A 64-year-old male with a history of moderate persistent asthma and long-standing interstitial lung disease (ILD) classified several years ago as bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia (BOOP) presented to general pulmonary clinic with a progressively worsening cough and sputum production. Recently he had be...
abpa, allergy, aspergillosis, asthma, radiology
Transverse slice of a high resolution computed tomographic scan of the chest on inspiration with thin slices using lung windowing demonstrating both the bilateral pulmonary opacities, calcifications, and mild bronchiectasis throughout the bilateral lower lobes of the lungs.
PMC7322736_01
Male
58
A 58 year-old gentleman presented to the hospital with worsening bloating and a gradual increase in his abdominal girth. He had also noted a loss of weight of more than 10 kg over the last 2 years. The patient otherwise denied any abdominal pain or change in his bowel habit. He was known to have a history of well-contr...
giant cyst, intra-abdominal cyst
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PMC7737464_02
Male
4
This male infant was born at term and had uneventful perinatal and postnatal periods until about 4 months of age. His birth weight was 2.8 kg. Unfortunately, he was not screened for the presence of TREC at birth, as current national neonatal screening programs in the UAE does not include testing for primary immunodefic...
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PMC2939501_01
Male
15
A fifteen-year-old male presented at 0100 to the local emergency department complaining of increasing dyspnea, chest pain and a sore throat. He denied any nasal discharge, cough, nausea or vomiting. His symptoms had started the previous afternoon on the first day of football practice. He had been running 24 100-yard sp...
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PMC10410139_01
Male
27
Legend has it that Blues guitarist extraordinaire Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in return for being taught how to play the guitar. The deal was consummated at the crossroads of Highway 49 (known as the Blues Highway) and Route 61 in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1927. Robert Johnson went on to become the fathe...
adaptive immunity, immune pathway, innate immunity, kidney, podocyte
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PMC10061095_01
Female
6
A 6-year-old girl presented with facial erythematous plaques that had gradually spread into her limbs over the course of a year (Figure 1A). The center of some erythematous plaques was ulcerated and scabbed spontaneously. She appeared to be predisposed to respiratory infections since birth. Multiple biopsies of the pla...
dclre1c gene, granulomatous, next-generation sequencing, rubella virus, severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome, whole-exome sequencing
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PMC5398518_01
Unknown
3
Almost all infants studied showed a minimal septal defect and only one infant had dyspnea and showed a large membranous VSD. All atrial septal defects had < 4 mm in diameter which are very likely to decrease in size or completely close on follow-up. However a small or moderate ventricular septal defect may still be sig...
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PMC9096266_01
Female
33
A 33-year-old Han Chinese woman was admitted to a local hospital due to irregular vaginal bleeding. The patient had no sexual history, so a transrectal ultrasound was performed instead of a gynecological examination, but no apparent abnormalities were found. So, the patient received hemostasis treatment but still exper...
ntrk gene fusion, case report, cervical sarcoma, literature review, survival analysis
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PMC4681999_01
Male
65
A 65-year-old man was referred to our hospital due to dyspnea upon exertion. He was an occasional smoker and had been exposed to asbestos from 18 to 20 years old while employed in the construction industry, cutting asbestos-containing building material. Chest X-ray showed left pleural effusion (Fig. 1A), and computed t...
asbestos, ct, computed tomography, dlbcl, diffuse large b-cell lymphoma, hhv, human herpesvirus, lymphoma, mesothelioma, pel, primary effusion lymphoma, pleural effusion, thoracoscopy
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PMC5508482_01
Female
23
23-year-old female, who was having history suggestive of chronic rhino bronchial allergy for the past five years, attended pulmonology outpatient with the complaint of cough, dyspnea and fever since more than four weeks. Vital signs were within normal range with SpO2 of 96%; her physical examination revealed bibasal lu...
exogenous lipoid pneumonia, petrolatum ointment, prednisolone, transbronchial lung biopsy, treatment
Axial HRCT section at the level of the lower chest reveals multiple tiny centrilobular nodules in the posterior basal segment of the left lower lobe and few nodules in the left lingula, right middle lobe and lateral basal segment of the right lower lobe.
PMC5508482_01
Female
23
23-year-old female, who was having history suggestive of chronic rhino bronchial allergy for the past five years, attended pulmonology outpatient with the complaint of cough, dyspnea and fever since more than four weeks. Vital signs were within normal range with SpO2 of 96%; her physical examination revealed bibasal lu...
exogenous lipoid pneumonia, petrolatum ointment, prednisolone, transbronchial lung biopsy, treatment
HRCT section at the level of the lower lobes reveals mild cylindrical bronchiectasis in the left lower lobe, faint tiny centrilobular nodules in the left lower lobe, right lower lobe and fibrotic lesions in the left lingula.
PMC3932400_01
Male
60
A 60-year-old male was admitted to the gastrointestinal medical clinic of Severance Hospital to undergo an operation for duodenal cancer. The patient had developed renal tuberculosis 30 years previously, received medical treatment for several months, and was completely cured. In June 2009, he visited a local clinic aft...
drug therapy, duodenal neoplasms, neuroendocrine tumors
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PMC5569393_01
Male
48
A 48-year-old male was admitted to our neurosurgical unit because of a frontal swelling with purulent discharge from a cutaneous fistula. In his clinical history, he reported a previous frontal TBI when he was 9-year-old. For this reason, he had undergone a frontal craniectomy with subsequent unspecified CP. Since that...
cranioplasty, late infection management, risk factors, surgical complications
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PMC8374937_01
Male
20
Three months after birth, the patient had recurrent mycotic stomatitis, tinea capitis and onychomycosis. He had a poor physique throughout childhood and often went to the hospital because of Candida dermatitis (Figure 1D). Because of long-term malnutrition, he was thin with a body mass index of 16.52. Knowing the medic...
stat1, talaromyces marneffei, chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, gain-of-function mutation, primary immune deficiency
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PMC6319523_01
Male
73
Patient A was a 73-year-old male who presented to the emergency department (ED) with abdominal pain and low-grade fevers. He presented 6 months after the last of his five intravesical BCG instillations for his known non-muscle invasive urinary bladder papillary TCC. His medical profile included COPD, Type II diabetes, ...
bcg, mycotic aortic aneurysms
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PMC6319523_02
Male
67
Patient B was a 67-year-old male who presented to ED with weight loss and night sweats. His complete blood cell count was within normal limits. Serum C-reactive protein was elevated at 41.1 mg/L. He had received fifteen intravesical BCG instillations for his low-grade papillary urothelial carcinoma and his last BCG ins...
bcg, mycotic aortic aneurysms
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PMC5702933_01
Female
37
A 37-year-old foreign domestic worker with no history of major infection and 3 previous vaginal births presented with a one-week history of suprapubic pain associated with fever. The patient also experienced loss of appetite and loss of weight. On examination, she was tachycardic with high-grade fever of 38.9 C. Abdome...
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PMC5196242_01
Female
6
The first case involves a six year old girl who was apparently well until the age of six months. Thereafter, she had started developing repeated episodes of cough and cold, respiratory distress with wheezing and was hospitalised on many occasions where she was treated with antibiotics, inhaled bronchodilators and inhal...
allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (abpa), asthma, bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis (cf)
Chest CT scan (HRCT) showed 'tram track' bronchial dilatation and, 'tree in bud appearance' confirming bronchiectasis.
PMC5196242_02
Male
7
A seven year old boy presented with history of recurrent respiratory distress with wheezing since five years of age. There is a history of an allergic rash since two year of age that has often accompanied these episodes. Moreover, there was family history of atopy and asthma. In this case also there was no socio-enviro...
allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (abpa), asthma, bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis (cf)
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PMC7433307_01
Female
38
A 38-year-old woman started antiretroviral therapy (ART) in 2007 with zidovudine (AZT), lamivudine (3TC) and efavirenz. Her baseline human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) viral load and cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) cell count results were not available. In September 2009, she experienced virological failure (this HI...
hiv drug resistance, antiretroviral therapy, dolutegravir, regimens, rifampicin
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PMC8083891_01
Female
70
A 70-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of shortness of breath. The symptoms started one month before admission and worsened over the following weeks. On the day before admission, the patient's condition worsened, and she experienced substernal chest pain and palpitations. She had a history of hyperten...
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PMC3878030_01
Male
38
The patient was a 38 year-old healthy male without a history of cardiovascular or psychiatric disease who experienced a sudden collapse while bicycling to work. On primary assessment by paramedics he was found to be pulseless. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was initiated. He was electrically cardioverted, resuscitated, ...
ptsd, anxiety disorders, autonomic nervous system, cognitive behavioral therapy, electrical storm, implantable cardioverter defibrillator, interoceptive awareness, stellate ganglion
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PMC3878030_03
Female
1
The patient was employed as an assistant restaurant manager. She was married with a 1 year-old daughter. She had received an associates degree in culinary arts. There was no family history of psychiatric illness or cardiovascular disease or syncope or sudden death. No history of substance abuse. At the initial evaluati...
ptsd, anxiety disorders, autonomic nervous system, cognitive behavioral therapy, electrical storm, implantable cardioverter defibrillator, interoceptive awareness, stellate ganglion
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PMC4546785_01
Female
8
An eight years old girl has presented to pediatric emergency with a recent history of febrile odynophagie subsequently complicated by a torticollis that has settled 5days after. Clinical examination has found a febrile child at 39 C and a bulging anterior pillar of the right tonsil without rash or conjunctival hyperemi...
fever, children, parapharyngeal abscess, torticollis
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PMC2989694_01
Male
12
The institutional IRB was consulted and waved the need for approval of the publication of this case. The patient is a 12-year-old, right-handed, 52 kg African-American male without any significant medical history other than nocturnal enuresis. His father woke him up at 04:00 on the morning of admission as was customary...
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PMC4387618_01
Male
25
In this study, we report a case of a healthy, 25-year-old male patient with presyncope during a football match divergent blood pressure, and a grade 3/6 aortic diastolic murmur. The echocardiogram showed a rounded structure in the basal area of the interventricular septum adjacent to the aortic valve, which causes inad...
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PMC7582089_01
Female
36
A 36-year-old woman from Cameroon (immigrated 10 years ago) with no past medical history presented to the Emergency Department with increasing abdominal swelling over months. She had no respiratory symptoms, no abdominal pain, no constitutional symptoms such as fever or weight loss, and reported prior negative tubercul...
adenosine deaminase, thoracic endometriosis syndrome
CT of chest revealing large right pleural effusion with right lung collapse and mediastinal shift to the left.
PMC8634645_01
Female
7
A 7-year old previously healthy girl of non-consanguineous Caucasian parents was admitted due to the first occurrence of a brief self-limiting afebrile focal onset seizure (twitching of the right arm). Retrospectively, the patient reported intermittent abdominal pain and a brief period of intermittent double vision pre...
cns involvement, henoch-schönlein purpura (hsp), iga vasculitis, cerebral vasculitis, encephalopathy syndrome, review, small-vessel vasculitis, treatment
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PMC5437444_01
Male
63
A 63-year-old male with a past medical history of remote facial trauma presented to our hospital with a 1-month long history of fever, headache, and gait instability. The headaches were left sided, constant, and throbbing with associated nausea and vomiting that was worse in the morning. During that month, he also deve...
anakinra, autoimmune meningoencephalitis, encephalitis, meningitis, periodic fever syndrome
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PMC7305368_01
Male
11
An 11-year-old male presented with worsening respiratory symptoms for two weeks, weight loss, and cervical lymphadenopathy. His past medical history included asthma and severe atopic dermatitis, which at presentation were inadequately controlled. Clinical examination revealed hypoxaemia (oxygen saturation <92% in room ...
endocrine pathology, lymphangitic carcinomatosis, papillary thyroid carcinoma
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PMC4475710_01
Female
64
A 64-year-old female with a history of ventilator dependent respiratory failure secondary to end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bioprosthetic mitral valve replacement 8 years ago was admitted to the medical intensive care unit (MICU) for worsening respiratory failure from pulmonary edema and mul...
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PMC7365854_01
Female
2
Compared with Wuhan, the 29 cases of COVID-19 in Jinan exhibited mild or moderate symptoms, which are mainly imported cases from Wuhan's contact history (Tables 1, 2). Of the 29 cases, 44.8% had a history of contact with Wuhan person, while others were clustering disease. The average age of the patients was 38.2 years ...
covid-19, sars-cov-2, asymptomatic patients, eyes-oral transmission, transmission routes
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PMC4599705_01
Male
19
A 19-year-old man was referred to the OCD Research Clinic at Butler Hospital/Brown Medical School for evaluation for neurosurgical treatment. He had separation anxiety as a young child, followed by development of OCD at age 13 years. Premorbid personality and functioning were relatively intact. Primary OCD symptoms inc...
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PMC9112304_01
Male
53
A 53-year-old male patient was referred to the ICU of Bach Mai hospital with a 2-week history of persistent high fever and acute hepatomegaly. There was no medical history. He lived in a rural area in Hai Phong city and had a cow. The patient had a high fever of about 39 C at the time of onset and took some antipyretic...
coxiella burnetti, q fever, bone marrow biopsy, fibrin ring granuloma, zoonotic infectious disease
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PMC4894734_01
Female
18
A 18-year-old women presented with chronic productive cough, and intermittent bilateral nasal obstruction. She had a history of recurrent episodes of respiratory tract infection and facial pain since childhood, and did not suffer from hearing loss or recurring otitis media. She could independently perform activities of...
kartagener′s syndrome, nasal polyposis, rhinolalia, sinusitis, situs inversus
HRCT of the chest in parenchymal window and in axial section reveals bronchiectasis and dextrocardia.
PMC7553885_01
Male
24
A male patient, meloderma, a construction worker, 24 years old. He presented himself at the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Service complaining about mouth injury, causing dysphagia due to burning and pain. In the anamnesis, there was a clinical course with an evolution of approximately 3 years, with hospitalizations oc...
leishmaniasis, oral manifestations, paracoccidioidomycosis, parasitological association
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PMC4356039_01
Female
81
The patient was an 81-year-old woman. Around June 2012 she noticed difficult breathing while walking; then as the symptom worsened she visited our hospital in October 2012. In December of the same year, bronchoscopy together with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB) were performed. The dom...
bosentan, endothelin antagonist, ipf, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, pap, pulmonary artery pressure, ph, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, respiratory failure
Chest roentgenogram and computed tomography (a). Chest roentgenogram and computed tomography at the initial visit Honeycombing along with traction bronchiectasis in the subpleural and basal areas of both lungs were detected.
PMC4356039_01
Female
81
The patient was an 81-year-old woman. Around June 2012 she noticed difficult breathing while walking; then as the symptom worsened she visited our hospital in October 2012. In December of the same year, bronchoscopy together with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB) were performed. The dom...
bosentan, endothelin antagonist, ipf, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, pap, pulmonary artery pressure, ph, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, respiratory failure
(b). Chest roentgenogram and computed tomography at exacerbation of pulmonary hypertension Compared with Fig. 1a, the findings did not show marked progression of IPF, while congestion was prominent with an increased cardiothoracic ratio.
PMC3598197_01
Female
5
A five year old female presented, shortly after migration from Africa, with chronic scalp infection and otitis media. She was noted to have symptomatic hyperglycaemia, with a history dating back possibly to two years of age. She was observed to have several cutaneous and facial features typical of the RMS phenotype (Fi...
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PMC4706388_01
Female
39
A 39-year-old, white, female healthcare worker, with a past medical history significant for diverticulosis, was presented to the emergency department with acute abdominal pain. She also complained of increased stress, severe night sweats, and progressive weight loss beginning more than 10 weeks prior to admission. On p...
diverticulitis, histoplasmosis, peritonitis, tubal abscess, tuberculosis
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