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PMC6329029_02
Male
10
A 10-years-old boy was diagnosed with tuberculous meningitis (TBM) and started on ATT consisting of HRZS along with prednisolone (2 mg/kg/day) in September 2012. CT brain showed calcific densities in the parietal lobe of the cerebrum. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examination showed proteins of 248 mg/dL, sugar of 36.8 mg/...
anti-tuberculous therapy, children, tubercular meningitis, tuberculoma
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PMC6329029_05
Male
4
A 4-year-old boy presented with limping of the right lower limb in October 2011. He was already on three drugs ATT (HRZ) for the past 6 months in view of TBM (details of which are not available, as he was treated at another centre). On examination, he had right lower limb spasticity with brisk reflexes. CSF showed prot...
anti-tuberculous therapy, children, tubercular meningitis, tuberculoma
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PMC6329029_06
Female
8
An 8-year-old girl was referred in January 2012 for further management of her TB. In March 2011, she had convulsions and vomiting. CT brain revealed multiple tuberculomas, and Mantoux test was positive. She was started on HRSE. CSF examination was not done. In October 2011, CT brain showed increase in size of granuloma...
anti-tuberculous therapy, children, tubercular meningitis, tuberculoma
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PMC5313427_01
Female
80
An 80-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of progressive dyspnea on exertion for the previous two months. She had been treated for hypertension and dyslipidemia. She had no known history of cancer. On admission, her oxygen saturation (SpO2) was 94%, which decreased to 74% with exertion. Her body tempera...
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PMC7748904_01
Female
30
A 30-year-old female with a past medical history significant for WPW and a psychiatric history of major depressive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, and several suicide attempts presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with complaints of decreased energy, swollen lymph nodes, w...
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PMC6280227_01
Male
14
A 14-year-old adolescent boy was referred to our Endocrinology Department for evaluation of short stature. As no medical records were available, previous growth velocity could not be evaluated. The patient reported that he had always been short for his age throughout his childhood. His recent medical history was negati...
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PMC4821334_01
Female
60
A 60-year old woman was referred to the tuberculosis (TB) out-patient clinic for Mycobacterium avium (MAC) pulmonary disease after having received 1st line antituberculosis treatment (isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol, pyrazinamide) for one month. The initial clinical diagnosis was pulmonary TB, based on patient's symp...
bronchiectasis, macrolides, non-tuberculous mycobacteria
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PMC9144385_01
Male
64
A 64-year-old Caucasian male with a past medical history of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (status post radiation therapy 5 years prior), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary embolism on rivaroxaban presented to the emergency department with worsening bilateral visual loss in the left field of vision fo...
pembrolizumab, pembrolizumab for pml, pembrolizumab for pml in aids, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (pml)
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PMC8053466_02
Female
58
Her previous medical history revealed that she was diagnosed with RA at the age of 58 years old and was receiving orally 20 mg of leflunomide per day. She had been treated with methotrexate and hydroxychloroquine in the past, under which she had experienced many relapses that required oral corticosteroids. It was only ...
brain abscess, infections, leflunomide, rheumatoid arthritis
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PMC9940231_01
Female
52
A 52-year-old female presented with esophageal dysphagia. The patients' past medical history was significant for GERD, constipation, hypertension, and arthritis. The patient had a 23 pack-year smoking history, history of alcohol abuse, and daily non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) use for her joint pain. A b...
esophageal intramural pseudodiverticulosis, dysphagia, esophageal intramural pseudodiverticulosis
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PMC7396118_01
Female
47
A 47-years-old female with a past history of sarcoidosis and endometriosis was referred to the gynecological consultation of Erasme University Hospital for an acute left lower abdominal painful mass at the gynecologic examination. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) examination showed a 17 cm left adnexal cystic lesion ...
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PMC10242122_01
Female
37
A 37-year-old woman first presented in the beginning of 2019 complaining of arthralgias, sicca symptoms, tiredness, and fatigue. Her personal history revealed that she was a non-smoker without prior allergies. She had been diagnosed with HT and vitamin D deficiency since 2012, but she was taking vitamin D irregularly. ...
aid, asia, hashimoto thyroiditis, sbi, familial autoimmunity
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PMC8435476_01
Female
28
A 28-year-old female was admitted to our hospital on August 17, 2017, with lymphadenomegaly on her right cervical area for approximately 2 months and repeated fever for more than 1 month, accompanied by a red rash, edema, and painful subcutaneous nodules in bilateral legs. Physical examination revealed lymphadenopathy ...
mycobacterium fortuitum, talaromyces marneffei, coinfection, non-hiv
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PMC4496840_01
Male
46
A 46-year-old man, former professional athlete, presented with a hypertensive stroke secondary to use of intravenous (IV) drugs, including heroin and cocaine. While admitted to the hospital, it was discovered that he was human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive. The patient's stroke resulted in hypoxic-ischemic brai...
intrathecal baclofen, selective dorsal rhizotomy, spastic diplegia, spastic paraparesis, spastic paraplegia, spasticity
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PMC7784232_01
Male
58
A 58-year-old man initially had a three-month history of persistent severe headache, lethargy and decline in sexual function with no visual and neurological deficit. There were no drenching night sweats, unexplained weight loss, fever, abdominal discomfort, swelling on the neck, axilla or groin, arthralgia and joint sw...
autoimmune hypophysitis, empty sella, hypopituitarism, older male, pituitary enlargement
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PMC7154255_01
Female
37
All patients attained Tanner stage 5. In this group, there was one patient with breast cancer. The diagnosis was conducted on a 37-year-old patient during her twenty-fourth year of therapy. This patient had had a myeloblastic acute leukemia at age 12 and had been submitted to conventional chemotherapy and BMT with prev...
breast cancer, hormonal replacement therapy, oncological survivors
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PMC7524186_01
Male
21
The patient was a 21-year-old male plaster worker, living in one of the North-Western provinces of Iran, who presented with skin lesions on his face and upper lip that had appeared about 3 months previously. Skin lesions were prurient and some of them were prominent and hemorrhagic. The patient reported no other sympto...
mycobacterium tuberculosis, cutaneous tuberculosis, orolabial lesions
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PMC9520523_01
Male
65
The first case was a 65-year-old man with paroxysmal bilateral temporal headache, a 20-kg weight loss over 3 months, hoarseness, dysphagia with paroxysmal diplopia, and intermittent fever for 1 month. A neurological examination revealed dysarthria, restricted right eye abduction, and left vocal cord paralysis. Laborato...
anca-associated vasculitis, igg4, igg4-related disease, antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody, hypertrophic pachymeningitis
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PMC9520523_03
Female
61
The third patient was a 61-year-old woman admitted for weakness and stiffness in both lower limbs for about 1 year, accompanied by thoracic back pain and constipation for 8 months. The neurological examination on admission revealed paresis in the bilateral lower limbs (3 to 4/5), decreased pain and thermal sensation in...
anca-associated vasculitis, igg4, igg4-related disease, antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody, hypertrophic pachymeningitis
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PMC8581154_01
Male
34
A 34-year-old Chinese male visited his local tertiary hospital due to progressively worsening occipital headache for the past 4 days, without showing any other symptoms of fever, projectile vomiting and so on. His medical history showed that he had had cryptococcal meningitis and HIV infection for about 1 year, and he ...
hiv, cerebrospinal fluid, cryptococcus, meningitis, next-generation sequencing, streptococcus suis
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PMC7338606_01
Female
39
The patient is a 39-year-old woman who presented 1 year ago with progressive proteinuria, renal failure, and hypertension. A biopsy was performed after development of significant renal dysfunction; serum creatinine was 3 mg/dL. The protein excretion rate was 1-2 g/24 h initially, which increased to 4-6 g/24 h with wors...
c3 glomerulonephritis, alternative pathway, complement mutations, membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, proteinuria
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PMC6421267_01
Female
81
An 81 year-old woman was admitted to our oncology unit (Military Training Hospital Begin, Unit of Oncology, Paris, France) for the management of grade 3 diarrhea due to fluoropyrimidine-related toxicity. She suffered from an invasive ductal carcinoma of the left breast (Elston-Ellis grade 3, RH+ HER2-) diagnosed in 200...
capecitabine, dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase, fluoropyrimidine, gene variation, pharmacogenomics, toxicity
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PMC9061986_01
Male
53
In February 2021, a 53-year-old man who had a smoking and drinking history of more than twenty years was admitted to our hospital with complaints that his front chest pain had lasted for half a year without breathlessness, wheeze, or stridor. There were no abnormalities of the chest shape, and any scars or skin deposit...
arterial infusion, hepatoid adenocarcinoma, interventional radiology, mediastinal, prognosis
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PMC10024043_01
Male
51
51-year-old male, with no significant personal history, non-smoker, no known allergies, no occupational exposures, no history of traveling six months prior to consultation, and no pet owner. He consulted with two-week asthenia, adynamia, malaise, rhinorrhea, and dyspnea (modified Medical Research Council) mMRC1, that w...
bronchoscopy, case report, organizing pneumonia, sjögren syndrome, transbronchial biopsy
High-resolution chest CT-scan showing thickening of inter and intralobular septa associated with grounded glass opacities predominantly in lung bases. Multiple foci of multilobes consolidation areas, bronchiolectasias without evidence of honeycomb, suggestive of unspecified interstitial pneumonia.
PMC6409095_02
Female
78
In 2017, decellularized dermis was suggested as a platform for airway mucosa engineering in tracheal transplantation. In this study, human bronchial epithelial cells and human respiratory fibroblasts were cultured onto a decellularized dermis. After three weeks, the engineered structures were implanted onto a decellula...
cell-based therapies, mustard gas, stem cell, tissue engineering, trachea
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PMC10165254_01
Male
8
Case 1 is an 11-year male who presented with a history of progressive haemoptysis for a 1-year duration. On presentation, he was well nourished with no other symptoms. He was previously treated for 6 months for unconfirmed pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) at the age of 8 years based only on suggestive radiology. Chest exam...
bronchoscopy, endobronchial lesion, hemoptysis, mucoepidermoid carcinoma, radiotherapy
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PMC3842215_01
Female
29
GV, a 29-year-old Caucasian woman suffering from panic disorder with agoraphobia, was referred to our clinic for recurrent gastroenteric panic symptoms. She had a negative family history for mental illness and had no past history of substance use/abuse. The patient's psychiatric history dated back to 8 years previously...
anxiety disorder, nausea, palpitations, panic attacks, tachycardia, tachypnea, vertigo
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PMC3201585_01
Female
34
About 1 am, a 34-year-old G8 P7 woman from a remote village in Ghana experienced a sudden onset of abdominal pains, nausea, and lightheadedness. When it didn't resolve by morning, she and her relatives began walking to the nearest road to get to the District Hospital. She had received no prenatal care and had vaginally...
ghana, pregnancy, grand multiparity, nurse education, ruptured uterus, ultrasound diagnosis
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PMC6925795_01
Male
40
A 40-year-old black male patient was referred to the nephrology service to investigate plasma creatinine elevation in the last 6 months. He reported two previous medical evaluations in emergency departments. The first occasion was due to severe abdominal and low back pain with irradiation to hypogastrium, associated wi...
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PMC5206423_01
Female
27
The patient was a 27-year-old woman (weight = 48 kg, height = 171 cm) admitted to a general hospital with primary diagnosis of acute abdomen because of acute epigastric pain, nausea, and vomiting. She had a history of activity-induced dyspnea and chest discomfort for 18 months. Anorexia, weight loss (approximately 10 k...
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PMC6363242_01
Male
72
A 72-year-old male with a long standing history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) presented with upper respiratory symptoms including mild productive cough and dyspnea. An outpatient chest CT showed innumerable bilateral ill-defined solid pulmonary nodules in a peribronchovascular distribution, which were new from ...
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PMC3284021_01
Male
24
A 24 year old male patient, a basketball professional player, suffered a traumatic crown fracture of the upper right central incisor (11), with the fracture line being located in the middle third of the tooth. The patient reported promptly to the clnician with the fractured fragment. The tooth involved showed no eviden...
adhesive technique, crown fracture, dental trauma, reattachment, tooth fragment
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PMC9282706_01
Male
42
In April 2015, a 42-year-old married male visited the outpatient clinic suffering from high-grade fever and a large painful ulcer around the anus for the past 3 weeks. Medical history revealed that he was seropositive and diagnosed with HIV in 1997. His history also confirmed high-risk behavior involving anal sexual in...
antiretroviral, human immunodeficiency virus and malignancy, human immunodeficiency virus diagnostic dilemma, non-hodgkins lymphoma, primary central nervous system lymphomas
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PMC9193965_01
Female
46
A 46-year-old female patient had a history of elevated alkaline phosphatase (AKP) for 4 years. She had occasional thirst, with no abdominal pain, abdominal distension, acid reflux, heartburn, constipation, dyspepsia, or nocturia. The history of renal insufficiency was denied. The patient had regular physical examinatio...
ectopic parathyroid adenoma, posterior superior mediastinum, primary hyperparathyroidism, thoracic surgery, vitamin d deficiency
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PMC4904552_01
Male
19
A 19-year-old man was referred for further management given a history of recurrent pneumothoraces and a recent CT of the thorax which revealed multiple bilateral pulmonary cysts. His past medical history included a surgically resected osteochondroma from the medial aspect of his right tibia a year ago, a remote appende...
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PMC5735078_02
Female
11
A recent experience at CHOP illustrates well the importance of integrated genomic workup for AML. An 11-year-old patient with cytogenetically normal AML (CN-AML) was referred for further genetic testing for risk stratification. The Comprehensive Hematological Cancer Panel identified a FLT3 internal tandem duplication (...
diagnosis, genomic profiling, pediatric leukemia, prognosis, therapy
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PMC7334767_01
Female
22
A 22-year-old woman, resident of Acapulco, Mexico, presented to our unit with a two-month clinical picture of headache, incoherent language, aggressive behavior, inappropriate conducts of disinhibition, and visual-auditory hallucinations. The previous day, the patient had gradually developed a diminished state of aware...
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PMC6010662_01
Female
56
In April 2007, a 56 year-old female visited our clinic with history of productive cough with whitish sputum, mild shortness of breath on exertion and low-grade fever especially in the evening for several months. She denied hemoptysis, anorexia, weight loss, other chronic respiratory symptoms and history of tuberculosis...
mycobacterium asiaticum, ntm infection, pulmonary infection
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PMC8273166_01
Male
67
In 2018, a 67-year-old Chinese man was admitted to our hospital with dryness of mouth for 6 years and elevated serum creatinine for 2 years. Six years ago, he felt dryness of mouth. Enlargement of salivary gland were discovered, and resection of bilateral submandibular gland was performed. The pathologic examination re...
igg3, lupus nephritis, predominant interstitial nephritis, storiform pattern, systemic lupus erythematosus
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PMC5290082_02
Male
25
The patient had been a professional basketball player from 18 to 25 years old and practiced competitive weightlifting until 30 years old. He admitted having taken a few cycles of oral and injectable steroids during the weightlifting competitive practice time. Currently, he is a bouncer and a recreational weightlifting ...
patellar ligament, rehabilitation, rupture, spontaneous, steroids, tendon injuries
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PMC8282150_01
Female
79
The participant in Case 1, a 79-year-old woman with mild symptoms of dementia (Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE] = 22), lived with her husband in a single-story condominium. She reported that she used to walk a lot for recreation but does not as much anymore, but her husband loves to ride his bike around the neighbo...
balance, cognitive impairment, physical activity, strength
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PMC2913787_01
Male
58
A 58-year-old Caucasian male was referred to the otolaryngology outpatient clinic from the oncology department with a complaint of a right-upper neck mass which had been growing for one year. The mass was painless and had rapidly increased in size during the preceding 3 months. The patient reported no loss of weight an...
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PMC5841111_01
Female
0
A 28-month-old girl was referred to our clinic because of a persistent cough, wheeze, and increased work of breathing for the preceding three months. Despite oral antibiotics and high doses of inhaled corticosteroids prescribed by her primary physician, cough and wheeze were persistent. Parents denied any history of wi...
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PMC4227368_01
Female
43
A 43-year-old female with a medical history of nonsteroid dependent asthma presented to an outside hospital complaining of one-month frequent bloody diarrhea, body aches, loss of appetite, and 15 kg weight loss. Upon admission she was febrile (39 C); however the rest of the physical examination was reportedly benign. L...
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PMC9977547_01
Male
76
A 76-year-old Japanese man visited a nephrologist with complaints of edema and dyspnea. He had first been diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome at 38 years old. Nephrotic syndrome had recurred at 57 and 63 years old. With the previous recurrence at 63 years old, he underwent renal biopsy and was diagnosed with MN (Ehrenrei...
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PMC9381722_01
Male
11
An 11-year-old male presented to clinic with a large anterior bony prominence just distal to the tibial tubercle of his right knee. The patient was athletic and recently began experiencing pain over his proximal tibia with physical activity. Approximately 4 years prior, the patient presented to another orthopedic surge...
pediatric, orthopedic, osteochondroma
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PMC3841921_01
Male
16
A 16-year-old male presented with right-sided numbness, dysphagia, and right peripheral vision loss after working out during football practice. In the emergency room (ER) his right-sided visual field defect persisted, with anomia and alexia. He stated that he had experienced intermittent episodes and discreet events ov...
bow hunter's syndrome, coil embolization, endovascular surgery, stroke, vertebral artery
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PMC7334807_01
Female
46
In September 2019, a 46-year-old female was hospitalized at First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University due to "recurrent fever for one month, up to 38.9 C accompanied by chills and sweating", but otherwise no complaints. She was treated with meroxicillin sulbactam sodium + ribavirin locally and her tempe...
brucella, couples, sexual transmission
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PMC6912930_01
Female
16
A 16 years old female was referred from district hospital. Her main complaints were abdominal pain and enlargement for the last 2 months. The suspicion of malignant ovarian cyst was established from referring obstetrician based on abdominal ultrasound. Defecation and micturition pattern were normal. Her menstrual cycle...
abdominal tuberculosis, diagnosis, laparotomy, ovarian mass
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PMC6912930_02
Female
16
A 16 years old female was referred from a private local hospital with suspected ovarian malignancy. She reported painful abdominal enlargement since the last year along with nausea and vomiting and marked weight loss. No history of fever, chronic cough, nor contact with tuberculosis-positive persons. Previous ultrasoun...
abdominal tuberculosis, diagnosis, laparotomy, ovarian mass
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PMC6885805_01
Female
21
A 21-year-old NCAA Division 1 Lacrosse player presented to the training room with right anterior thigh pain of 4-5 weeks duration. Onset was gradual, occurring in the spring lacrosse season and starting during training and practice. She did not report any new activity or specific mechanism of injury leading to the pain...
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PMC9393113_01
Male
51
A 51-year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital with persistent fever for >20 days and blurred vision in his left eye. He had a history of untreated diabetes. The patient was aware of abdominal distention, but did not attend the hospital until he developed a fever of 39.5 C. At the community hospital, he was d...
endogenous endophthalmitis, hypervirulent klebsiella pneumoniae, liver abscess, sequence type 25, serotype k2
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PMC6218752_01
Male
68
A 68-year-old male with past medical history significant of end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus type 2, cirrhosis, hepatitis C, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and benign prostate hyperplasia presented to the emergency department with a 2-week progressive dysp...
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PMC9909052_01
Female
30
This is a 30-year-old gravida 3 para 2 patient from western Ethiopia whose gestational age from reliable last normal menstrual period (LNMP) was 39 weeks plus 4 days presented to Wollega University Referral Hospital (WURH) for elective cesarean delivery. Here, previous two deliveries were by cesarean section. The inter...
case report, cesarean scar, pregnancy, scar dehiscence, western ethiopia
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PMC7305531_01
Male
11
An 11-year-old boy was admitted to the pediatric respiratory department of the Shandong Provincial Hospital due to 2-day history of intermittent mild hemoptysis. Six days earlier, the child had a fever with the highest temperature of 38.0 C. He had no other symptoms, and no examination was performed or treatment was gi...
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PMC9763264_01
Male
50
A 50-year-old male presented with a progressive cognitive decline, expressive aphasia, and personality changes. Brain MRI revealed a non-enhancing small region of increased T2-weighted signal in the right frontal lobe; a follow-up MRI 25 weeks later revealed an avidly enhancing mass exhibiting significant mass effect. ...
mri, fractional tumor burden (ftb), glioblastoma, pseudoprogression, pulsed low-dose-rate radiotherapy (pldr), relative cerebral blood volume (rcbv), treatment effect, tumor progression
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PMC9763264_02
Male
56
A 56-year-old male presented with a history of seizure and expressive aphasia. Brain MRI revealed a left parietal mass with surrounding vasogenic edema and mass effect. Craniotomy and gross-total resection were performed, and integrated diagnosis was consistent with glioblastoma WHO grade 4, IDH-wt, and MGMT unmethylat...
mri, fractional tumor burden (ftb), glioblastoma, pseudoprogression, pulsed low-dose-rate radiotherapy (pldr), relative cerebral blood volume (rcbv), treatment effect, tumor progression
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PMC9763264_03
Male
55
A 55-year-old male presented with a seizure, visual impairment and personality changes. Brain MRI revealed an enhancing left occipital mass surrounded by diffuse FLAIR hyperintensity signal. Craniotomy and gross-total resection were performed and integrated diagnosis was consistent with glioblastoma WHO grade 4, IDH-wt...
mri, fractional tumor burden (ftb), glioblastoma, pseudoprogression, pulsed low-dose-rate radiotherapy (pldr), relative cerebral blood volume (rcbv), treatment effect, tumor progression
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PMC9763264_04
Male
60
A 60-year-old male presented with progressive left hemiparesis and memory decline. Brain MRI revealed an enhancing mass within the right frontal lobe that was resected. Integrated diagnosis was consistent with glioblastoma WHO grade 4, IDH-wt, and MGMT unmethylated. There was significant postoperative improvement in sy...
mri, fractional tumor burden (ftb), glioblastoma, pseudoprogression, pulsed low-dose-rate radiotherapy (pldr), relative cerebral blood volume (rcbv), treatment effect, tumor progression
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PMC9932026_01
Female
53
We present a case of a 53-year-old Caucasian female patient. When she was 42 years old, falls and loss of balance occurred. Furthermore, at the age of 48, progressive, involuntary, uncoordinated movements of the upper limbs and head, tongue stereotypes (licking and extending movements), speech problems (dysarthria), me...
ercc4, ner (nucleotide excision repair), ataxia, brain atrophy, chorea, gene variant
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PMC9762491_02
Male
44
Patient 2 (P2) was a 44-year-old man who underwent OLT for acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF). The patient had chronic hepatitis B for several years and received irregular treatment. During the transplant operation, the patient suffered severe post-reperfusion syndrome (PRS) due to hyperkalemia, that is, cardiac arr...
hhv-6 encephalitis, immunosuppressant, intracranial infections, opportunistic infections, orthotopic liver transplantation
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PMC6843078_04
Male
29
A 29 year old man from Somalia was transferred to our out-patient clinic from the Department of Infectious Diseases after hyperglycemia and ketosis had unexpectedly been found during a negative tuberculosis work up. His family history was positive in that his mother and two uncles had T2D-like diabetes. His medications...
flatbush diabetes, glp-1–glucagon-like peptide-1, sglt 2 inhibitor, atypical diabetes, ketosis
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PMC4643339_01
Female
80
An 80-year-old white woman was referred to the Department of Surgery for a symptomatic thyroid nodule (Fig. 1). The nodule had been diagnosed four years earlier by US, which revealed a solid and well defined heterogeneous formation in the right hemithyroid, measuring 33 x 21 mm, containing an area of cystic degeneratio...
renal cell carcinoma, thyroid metastasis
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PMC4900026_01
Male
42
A 42-year-old man with a prior history of anabolic steroid use presented to his primary physician one day after falling on both elbows while playing football. On physical examination, he had mild tenderness and a palpable defect over the olecranons bilaterally. He had full strength on extension; however, he complained ...
mri, magnetic resonance imaging
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PMC8355942_01
Male
21
A 21-year-old Afghan man presented to the emergency department with a 7-day history of fever, chills, hemoptysis and hematuria. He denied any recent exposure to any patient with COVID-19. He had no significant history of rheumatologic disorders or any other diseases. The patient had tachypnea and tachycardia on admissi...
covid-19, corona virus, hematuria, hemoptysis, sars-cov-2
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PMC6000718_01
Female
31
A 31-year-old woman in the 15th week of gestation suddenly lost consciousness and was transferred to our institution. She was in a deep coma with her left pupil dilated and right hemiplegia. Computed tomographic scans showed an intracerebral hemorrhage in the left basal ganglia extending to the temporal lobe and a smal...
anterior perforated substance, arteriovenous malformation, motor evoked potential, pregnancy
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PMC5540464_01
Female
40
A 40-year-old woman with trisomy 21 developed an acute eruption on the hands, legs, and face 57 days after her second pancreas transplant for type 1 diabetes. Initial pancreas transplant was 12 years prior, complicated by antibody-mediated rejection. Patient received her second pancreas from a deceased male donor. She ...
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PMC7171626_01
Female
33
A 33-year-old woman, originally from Pakistan, immigrated to the United Kingdom in 2014. She was a nonsmoker and presented at 37 weeks of pregnancy in the Emergency Department with persistent back pain, paraesthesiae of the left L5 dermatome, and numbness in the S1-2 dermatomes. Examination revealed bilateral suprasacr...
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PMC9068340_01
Male
57
A 57-year-old man, with a 20 pack-year smoking history, was diagnosed at the age of 10 with a possible miliary tuberculosis due to an interstitial lung pattern on a chest X-ray. He received specific tuberculosis treatment, without radiological improvement. A lung biopsy was performed in which alveoli with macrophages l...
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PMC5446869_01
Female
23
23-year-old Filipino lady, previously healthy, presented to the emergency department with vertigo and imbalance in walking of six days prior to admission; her symptoms were also associated with blurring of vision, diplopia, and headache, in addition to numbness in the lower limbs initially that resolved at the time of ...
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PMC2492175_01
Female
23
To our knowledge, we present the first case of necrotizing pneumonia following incision of a Bartholin's abscess. In October 2006, a 23-year-old woman with no systemic signs of infection had a surgical incision of a Bartholin's abscess (3 x 5 x 3 cm) without the installation of a drainage. The patient was discharged wi...
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PMC4895071_01
Male
35
A 35-year-old man presented with a four-year history of right hip pain and disability exacerbated by physical activity and weightbearing. The patient denied any prior trauma. He did not have any fever, chill, night sweat or weight loss. Right hip radiographs showed an expansile and septated lesion affecting the right a...
ct, computed tomography, mri, magnetic resonance imaging
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PMC10149197_01
Male
62
In April 2022, a 62-year-old man was admitted to the Department of Infectious Diseases at the University Clinical Centre in Pristina due to a high fever that had been initially intermittent and later on had become persistent for two weeks prior to hospitalization. The patient had been seen by several physicians, includ...
kosovo, misdiagnosis, visceral leishmaniasis
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PMC4782539_01
Female
37
A 37-years-old female patient presented with complaints of pain in the left arm since three months followed by weakness a month later. The patient had dull boring pain around the left shoulder which radiated on lateral aspect of left arm. The pain progressed over 15 days to involve lateral forearm as well as the thumb ...
myelo-radiculoplexopathy, non small cell carcinoma, onco-antibodies, paraneoplastic neurological syndromes, person in the barrel syndrome
(d) STIR coronal view shows resolution of signal changes in the nerve roots. Figures e and f shows contrast enhancing rounded opacity in the apex of left lung on computed tomography of chest.
PMC6030028_01
Male
15
We report the case of a 15-year-old boy who experienced frequent myoclonic seizures and ataxia for 3 years. He had normal neuropsychiatric development before the initial onset of seizures at the age of 12 years. He presented with generalized and focal myoclonic seizures. Progressive ataxia and psychomotor and speech re...
neu1 gene, perampanel, progressive myoclonic epilepsy, sialidosis
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PMC9281255_01
Female
58
Our patient was a 58-year-old Caucasian woman, who was referred to the Emergency Department because of dyspnoea. Her past medical history was significant for psoriatic arthritis, treated with adalimumab (tumour necrosis factor blocker) and methotrexate. She presented with a tachycardia of 124 beats/minute and blood pre...
case report, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, intensive care units, tuberculosis
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PMC3647711_01
Female
44
A 44-year-old woman was admitted to our clinic with a 2-month history of fatigue, cough, dyspnea and fever with hemoptysis. There was not familiarity for lung tumor or tuberculosis. On pathological examination, the spleen was 3 cm palpable below the left costal margin on the mid axillary line. The physical examination ...
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In CT parenchyma window in right lung upper lobe apical segment, a solid peripheral subpleural situated nodule which is 37 mm in diameter and has a homogeneous formation showing umbilication in lobule with a contour-good bordered medial part.
PMC4410589_01
Female
26
Patient 1, a 26-year-old woman, had experienced a low-grade fever and abdominal pain for 1 month prior to admission. Macrohematuria also appeared 10 days before admission. She had no recent abdominal trauma. On admission, her body temperature was 37.5 C. No significant physical findings were observed in her chest and a...
anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody, anti-glomerular basement membrane glomerulonephritis, ureteral obstruction
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PMC3593498_01
Male
25
A 25-year-old male from Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh presented to the Tuberculosis and Chest department of NRI General Hospital, Chinakakani with complaints of productive cough, chest pain, hemoptysis, and dyspnoea for the last four months. There was history of occasional fever but no weight loss. Physical examina...
hemoptysis, hydatid cyst, lung
CT scan impression showing 6x6.9x5.9 cm hypodense lesion in the posterior segment of the lower lobe of the right lung.
PMC9634947_02
Female
29
A 29-year-old female patient was diagnosed with HIV infection in June 2017 and commenced on TDF/3TC/EFV. Her baseline CD4 count and VL are unknown. Three years later, she was switched to ABC/3TC/ATZ/r following virological failure. Four weeks after treatment switch, she developed pulmonary tuberculosis and in error was...
hiv, hiv drug resistance, antiretroviral treatment, dolutegravir, integrase strand inhibitor
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PMC7242862_01
Female
27
A 27-year-old female was admitted to a local hospital with community-acquired pneumonia. She tested positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and had a baseline CD4 count of 0 cells/muL. Investigations for tuberculosis were negative. At the time of her discharge, she was started on a fixed-dose combination of ant...
cytomegalovirus, esophageal stricture, immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome
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PMC6356048_01
Male
79
An abnormal chest x-ray finding in a 79-year-old man during a health checkup program in X-6 led him to consult a nearby physician. Suspected of having lung cancer, the patient presented to our department on October 28, X-6. He was confirmed to have a history of pulmonary tuberculosis, disc herniation, and chronic obstr...
anti-pd-1-antibody, ctla-4, cytotoxic t-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4, icis, immune checkpoint inhibitors, immune checkpoint inhibitors, isolated acth deficiency, lung cancer, nivolumab, pd-1, programmed death 1, pd-l1, programmed cell death ligand-1, pd-l2, programmed cell death ligand-2, iraes, immune-related adver...
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PMC5523564_01
Female
57
A 57-year-old female presented with sudden onset of loss of taste and tongue deviation to the left on protrusion. She had slurring of speech but no limb weakness, no syncopal attack, no headache, no vomiting, and no history of seizure. Underlying medical problems revealed that she suffered from hypertension, psoriasis,...
clinical characteristics, imaging characteristics, mandibular canal
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PMC9300819_01
Male
42
A 42-year-old Brazilian man was admitted to the hospital due to wasting syndrome, fever of unknown origin (FUO), hyporexia, asthenia, and night sweats. The patient reported worsening of his condition during the last month to the point of becoming bedridden. He also reported edema up to his knees, skin peeling, and seve...
bone marrow, case report, fever of unknown origin, lepromatous leprosy, neuropathy
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PMC9526550_01
Male
11
On 21 November 2018, an 11-year-old preadolescent boy presented to our hospital with a productive cough, fever, and weight loss for four weeks. 1.5 months before the current illness, the patient was admitted to a local hospital with left neck lymphadenitis and underwent surgical drainage. The bacterial culture of the d...
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PMC3662898_01
Male
55
Sport history. This participant played football in high school and in the CFL for 6 years. He had many concussions. Clinical findings. When the patient was 55-years old, his sister noted that he had difficulty with short-term memory and that he was less able to formulate arguments. He subsequently developed visuospatia...
chronic traumatic encephalopathy, dementia, neurodegenerative disease, professional athletes, repetitive brain injury
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PMC9073109_01
Female
3
A female child, three years old, 16 kg, had complaints of vomiting, weakness, and convulsion-like tremor at the right angle of the mouth a week before the admission. After a week in hospital care, the patient was discharged. A week later, the patient's head tilted to the right while talking, and the patient was less ac...
anec, acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood, encephalopathy
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PMC6310376_01
Male
16
Fostering youth-staff relationships has shown to be an important aspect of the positive program experience. The fact that program staff and volunteers are often community members from the local community in which the CSC program operates is unique and may enhance connections as youth have the opportunity to connect wit...
community, evaluation, stem, science, youth
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PMC6310376_02
Female
14
The CSCs target youth ages 8 to 14 years old. In some clubs, this age difference poses a challenge to effective teamwork and facilitation. Two volunteer facilitators reported issues related to content delivery and suggested potential solutions: "There was a significant range in age groups that made it more difficult fo...
community, evaluation, stem, science, youth
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PMC4833828_01
Male
41
A 41-year-old Moroccan male, who had been living in Spain for 7 years, was admitted to the rapid diagnosis unit of Internal Medicine of the Complejo Asistencial Universitario de Leon, Spain with a 6 month history of abdominal pain, weight loss (10 kg in two months), fatigue and diarrhea. The patient had no relevant pas...
mycobacterium caprae, peritoneal tuberculosis, spoligotype sb0416
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PMC7676982_01
Male
83
An 83-year-old man with a history of gangrenous cholecystitis requiring cholecystectomy, partial gastrectomy, and Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy presented to an outside hospital with severe sepsis and recurrent unstable monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (requiring synchronized cardioversion) secondary to non-ST segment ...
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PMC3043439_01
Female
25
A 25-year-old woman, gravida I, in the 24th week of gestation was admitted to the emergency room due to severe right lower quadrant (RLQ) abdominal pain coinciding with nausea and vomiting. She was afebrile (36.7 C) and had urinary frequency without dysuria. The patient had no uterine contractions, vaginal bleeding, or...
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PMC5890373_01
Female
21
A 21-year-old female underwent a routine septorhinoplasty for aesthetic and airway improvement. After envelope elevation in the sub-SMAS plane and total septal exposure through sub-perichondrial route, she underwent deviated bony and cartilaginous septal resection and caudal septal relocation, saving a sufficient L-str...
charlin’s syndrome, complication, septorhinoplasty
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PMC6757500_01
Female
17
A 17-year-old woman with no significant past medical or surgical history presented to the emergency department (ED) as a level 2 trauma activation. The patient was a restrained backseat driver's side passenger in a car traveling approximately 45 mph when a delivery truck ran a red light hitting the driver's side. The f...
emergency medicine, surgery, trauma
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PMC4856939_01
Male
68
A 68-year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital with chief complaints of recurrent pain in right hypochondrium, loss of appetite, and dyspepsia for the past 1 month. No fever, weight loss, or night sweating was reported. The patient denied any history of tuberculosis or hepatitis. There was no history of jaundi...
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PMC9796185_01
Female
18
On September 7, 2022, an 18-year-old woman sought care at the outpatient clinic of Foch Hospital for symptoms such as fever, myalgia, and multiple eruptions on her vulva that began 7 days earlier (Figure). She reported a headache began on September 2, 2022, followed by feverish episodes on September 2 that stopped on S...
france, monkeypox, genital, outbreak, prevention, sexually transmitted infections, vaccine, viruses, women
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PMC5214735_01
Female
42
A 42-year-old woman presented with recurrent acid regurgitation and heartburn. On initial upper endoscopy, multiple mucosal breaks were seen in the lower esophagus, but no abnormalities were observed in the stomach (Fig. 1). The patient took proton pump inhibitors for consistent reflux symptoms and reflux esophagitis. ...
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PMC3959040_01
Male
28
A 28-year-old male presented to the emergency room (ER) with pain and redness in the right eye over the last 5 days. He was otherwise healthy and gave a past history of appendicectomy. His ocular history revealed laser refractive surgery procedure in both eyes 6 months prior to his presentation in another institution i...
endophthalmitis, laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis, listeria, pigmented hypopyon
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PMC6878774_01
Female
64
A 64-year-old woman with a history of refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML), hypertension, and left ear deafness was admitted for allogeneic bone marrow transplant and subsequently died of intracerebral hemorrhage secondary to mucormycosis 13 days after receiving her stem cells. This patient was originally diagnosed ...
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PMC10311226_01
Female
37
Patient information: a 37-year-old lady presented with complaints of painless gross hematuria and dysuria for one month. In past, she had undergone augmentation ileocystoplasty at 12 years of age for a thimble bladder and left simple nephrectomy for pyonephrosis due to genitourinary tuberculosis. One year back she unde...
augmentation cystoplasty, adenocarcinoma, case report
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