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pmc-6032628-1 | A 64-year-old man presented at the emergency department with colic pain in the left lumbar region. The pain started acutely and was ongoing for more than one day. There were no urinary complaints, no vomiting, no respiratory complaints and normal stools. His medical history showed a lung carcinoma for which he was curr... |
pmc-6032629-1 | A 49-year-old woman presented at the otorhinolaryngology department with symptoms of repeated upper airway infections for six months. She complained of nasal obstruction, headaches, sneezing, hyposmia, postnasal drip and coughing. Treatment with antibiotics and oral steroids had no effect. She had already undergone fun... |
pmc-6032648-1 | A 62-year-old woman was admitted to the Department of Gynecology at the Institute of Oncology Vojvodina with the complaint of vaginal bleeding for one year. Her past medical history was uneventful. The biopsy results of fractional curettage identified endometrial cancer (HP: carcinoma endometriodes, G2). She underwent ... |
pmc-6032649-1 | A 25-year-old woman was referred to our radiology department by her family doctor for an MRI examination of the left knee because of a “crackling” noise of three months duration. There were no complaints of instability, swelling or pain. Physical examination showed anterior laxity of the knee. There was no recent histo... |
pmc-6032652-1 | We present the case of a 27-year-old woman who was referred to our hospital for further investigation, after worrying findings during a routine check-up performed in another hospital. Five years prior to this check-up, the patient was diagnosed with cancer of the left breast at the very young age of 22. The tumor was s... |
pmc-6032658-1 | A 46-year-old man with no relevant medical history presented at the emergency department with nausea and a vague epigastric abdominal pain. An initial ultrasound examination demonstrated an ileus of the small intestine with small bowel wall distention mainly in the peri-umbilical region.
Computed tomography (CT) confir... |
pmc-6032662-1 | A 28-year-old multiparous female presented to the Emergency Department with complaints of mild abdominal pain associated with nausea for two days. She described her pain episodes as mild in nature, located in the epigastric/left upper quadrant, nonradiating, and slight worsening with food intake. She denied fever, chil... |
pmc-6032663-1 | We discuss the case of a 74-year-old woman treated for breast cancer with bone metastases. Her past medical history also included pulmonary embolism, hypertension, appendectomy, hysterectomy, and aortic valvuloplasty. Annual follow-up ultrasonographic examination of the abdomen showed an unexplained pneumobilia (Fig. )... |
pmc-6032667-1 | A 46-year old man presented to the emergency department with pain localized to the right costovertebral angle and associated shoulder pain. Laboratory findings showed raised inflammatory parameters (C-reactive Protein (CRP) 116 mg/dL, normal range 0–1.2 mg/dL). The patient had no fever (36°C). A non-contrast-enhanced C... |
pmc-6032668-1 | A 29-year-old Pakistani male was referred to the Oral Surgery Department for rehabilitation of the left edentulous mandible secondary to partial mandibulectomy surgery. He had undergone two operations for the left body of a mandible keratocyst odontogenic tumour (KCOT). The patient has been diagnosed with (KCOT) in Pak... |
pmc-6032763-1 | A 55-year-old male patient with nuchal pain at C3–C4 level radiating to the left arm was referred for exclusion of a disc herniation. He underwent a cervical CT, not showing a disc herniation. However, it revealed a right-sided accessory articulation between the anterior transverse processes of C6 and C7. The transvers... |
pmc-6032769-1 | This was a rare case of PMB-iSH in a 21-year-old female in China. In her postpartum period, the patient suffered from chest pain, fever and even coma for a fortnight. She was sent to the local hospital due to cardiac arrest by 4 times on 27th January 2017. After CPR, she regained consciousness gradually but still was i... |
pmc-6032794-1 | We present the case of 33-year-old woman with genetically confirmed osteogenesis imperfecta type I. During childhood, she presented with the pathognomonic features of osteoporosis with multiple fractures and blue sclerae. At the time of consultation in our institution, she had complaints of progressive hearing loss and... |
pmc-6032798-1 | A 42-year-old woman presented at the emergency department with acute onset of right flank pain. The patient had an extensive past medical history of endometriosis for which she underwent several surgeries. Contrast enhanced computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen showed right perinephric hemorrhage and an exophytic hyp... |
pmc-6032803-1 | An asymptomatic 62-year-old man presented at the urologist for a check-up with a normal digital rectal examination and a PSA of 1.05 ng/mL. The prostate volume approximated 37 cc on transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) that also showed an hypoechoic structure of 5 cm, extending beyond the prostate, which was interpreted as an... |
pmc-6032804-1 | A 68-year-old man was examined for bitemporal hemianopsia and falling episodes. Computed tomography (CT) revealed a 32 mm spontaneously hyperdense suprasellar mass (Fig. ). No calcification was noted. Complementary preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a well delineated lesion with a nearly isointense si... |
pmc-6032805-1 | A 69-year-old woman who has been treated for a colorectal cancer suffered recurrent episodes of acute pancreatitis seven years later. She was initially treated by rectosigmoidectomy, for which further analyses revealed a T2 adenocarcinoma with mucinous differentiation, no distant metastasis, and a N2 nodal stage, leadi... |
pmc-6032808-1 | A 65-year-old man suffering from severe and sporadic hemophilia A developed a large
abdominal mass 15 years before seeking treatment.
The patient’s medical history included among other noteworthy facts
transfusion-related chronic hepatitis C, multiple hemophilic arthropathies, and
cerebral hemorrhage.
Laboratory findin... |
pmc-6032810-1 | A 46-year-old woman presented at our institution in April 2013 with acute pain in the left hip. She had a skiing accident, being hit by another skier. Since then, she experienced severe persistent pain in the left hip. The medical history included few relevant findings, except bilateral recurrent calcific tendinitis of... |
pmc-6032811-1 | A 52-year-old man, referred to us for coughing with sputum and dyspnea, was hospitalized because of septic shock following bilateral pneumonia. Two months previously, he had been hospitalized for a pancreatic pseudocyst during an acute phase of a head pancreatitis. Computed tomography (CT) at that time showed extensive... |
pmc-6032818-1 | A 40-year-old gravida five, para four woman presented for workup and management of abnormal uterine bleeding. Her past medical history was significant only for hypertension and anemia. On review of her social history, she admitted to drinking six packs of beer on the weekends but denied further substance use. She denie... |
pmc-6032954-1 | A 52-year-old male patient presented with the complaint of sudden vision loss in his left eye 3 days earlier. Past medical history was significant for chronic kidney disease, secondary hypertension, chronic hepatitis C virus infection and arrhythmia. Ophthalmologic examination revealed best corrected visual acuity of 1... |
pmc-6032957-1 | A 65-year-old female presented to our tertiary eye centre with 6 weeks’ history of painless right eye vision distortion and no history of eye injury or trauma. On examination, VA was 6/24 in the right eye and 6/5 in the left eye. Following slit-lamp biomicroscopy and fundoscopy a diagnosis of right eye full-thickness m... |
pmc-6032958-1 | A 21-year-old male patient presented to our clinic with pain and redness in his right eye. On physical examination, visual acuity using Snellen chart was 20/20 in both eyes and intraocular pressures were 14 and 15 mmHg in the right and left eyes, respectively. On slit-lamp biomicroscopic examination, minimally inflamed... |
pmc-6032963-1 | A 42-year-old male refugee under follow-up for PMD had an uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) in the right eye of counting fingers from 4 m and best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of 2/10 with refraction values of -5.00, -12.00 α 35, topographic astigmatism (TA) of 21.2 dioptri (D) α 95. In the left eye, UCVA was counting... |
pmc-6032967-1 | A 61-year-old male had been aware of a right parotid mass for about 10 years; however, he did not seek treatment as the mass was painless. On experiencing serious right parotid pain, he visited our affiliated hospital. Physical examination revealed a painful mass in his right parotid gland of approximately 30 mm in dia... |
pmc-6032970-1 | A 17-year-old female student with known SCD (HbSS), on folic acid (FA) since early childhood and on hydroxyurea (HU) 500 mg/day for the past 5 years, was admitted to the medical ward with difficulty in breathing, persistent fever, chest pain, dry cough, and general body malaise for four days prior to admission. Her pre... |
pmc-6032971-1 | A 91-year-old female was admitted to the hospital after suffering a burn to her forehead by a salon hair dryer approximately four months prior to diagnosis. Following the development of the burn, she reported pruritic red patches appearing on the scalp. Over the four months, several clinical diagnoses, including eczema... |
pmc-6032975-1 | A 73-year-old female with a past medical history of atrial fibrillation and mitral valve prolapse was referred due to intermittent right-sided abdominal pain and a right-sided abdominal bulge. Approximately 10 years ago, she experienced the initial onset of the symptoms which resolved spontaneously. This episode was te... |
pmc-6033235-1 | A 52-year-old man with a history of hypertension, coronary artery disease and end-stage renal disease under continuous ambulatory PD treatment for 3 years presented to the PD clinic with cloudy dialysate effluent and diffuse abdominal pain lasting 2 h. Two weeks before this presentation, he was diagnosed with community... |
pmc-6033239-1 | A 52-year-old Japanese man with alcoholic liver cirrhosis and a history of previous esophageal varices and hepatic encephalopathy was referred to our hospital. At admission, he was afebrile, icteric, and anemic and complained of abdominal pain due to accumulated ascites. He had none of the neurological symptoms of neur... |
pmc-6033244-1 | A 30-year-old male, with no significant past medical history, came to the emergency department with complaints of fever and chills for a duration of 3 days. He also complained of myalgia and abdominal pain for the same duration. He reported diffuse abdominal pain, which was 6/10 in severity, nonradiating, and not relat... |
pmc-6033245-1 | A 49-year-old previously healthy female presented with a 1-week posterior-region knee pain post direct fall from a standing position on her left knee. This was directly followed by knee joint blockage with a limited range of motion of only 30 to 60 degrees of flexion. The patient started taking NSAID and had minimal pa... |
pmc-6033253-1 | This is a case of a 28-year-old male patient, previously healthy, with no past surgical history. He was transferred to our facility from a peripheral hospital due to multiple fractures and crush injuries sustained after a motor vehicle accident one week prior to presentation.
The patient had a butterfly fracture at the... |
pmc-6033282-1 | A 71-year-old Tunisian woman presented to our emergency department with atraumatic pain in her neck and shoulders, and fever that had evolved over 4 weeks. Her medical history was significant for arterial hypertension and calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition (CPDD) disease managed by non-steroidal anti-inflammato... |
pmc-6033296-1 | A 6-year-old boy with no pathological history accidentally fell from the top of an approximately 3 m climbing pole and injured his right extended elbow and wrist joint. Due to pain and deformity in the right elbow and wrist joints, he visited our hospital. Swelling and a dinner fork deformity of the right wrist joint a... |
pmc-6033302-1 | A 79-year-old man with a distant history of colon cancer treated with surgery and radiation and diffuse large B cell lymphoma presented with asymptomatic right hydroureteronephrosis to the level of the mid-ureter with associated right ureteral wall thickening found on surveillance CT scan for lymphoma (). With cystosco... |
pmc-6033302-2 | A 59-year-old male with no nephrolithiasis history underwent right ureteroscopy and laser lithotripsy for a right mid-ureteral stone. The procedure was complicated by a urinoma managed with an indwelling ureteral stent and retroperitoneal drain placement. He ultimately developed a mid-ureteral stricture. MAG-3 lasix re... |
pmc-6033610-1 | A 14-day-old baby girl was referred to our surgical team due to ongoing nasogastric bilious aspirates. Patient was born at 31 weeks of gestation in a poor general condition, initially required intubation with high frequency oscillatory ventilation, inotropic support, and surfactant administration. She had an antenatal ... |
pmc-6033610-2 | A 1-month-old baby girl was referred to our surgical team due to recurrent nonbilious vomiting and inability to reach full enteral feeds. Patient was born at 38 weeks of gestation via an elective cesarean section with an antenatal diagnosis of congenital heart block and complex cardiac structural anomalies (left atrial... |
pmc-6033840-1 | A 77-year-old Japanese man was referred to Kochi Medical School Hospital for the treatment of liver metastases from gastric cancer. The patient’s past medical history revealed that he had undergone laparoscopic total gastrectomy with D1+ regional lymph node dissection, according to Japanese gastric cancer treatment gui... |
pmc-6034043-1 | The patient, an 8-year-old girl, came to the Lutheran University of Brazil for a routine dental consultation. Upon clinical examination, it was observed that the patient presented chronology (dentition development) and sequence of eruption compatible with her age; however, the left mandibular first permanent molar was ... |
pmc-6034050-1 | An 8-year-old boy came to the Department of Pediat-ric and Preventive Dentistry in Dr. D Y Patil School of Dentistry, Navi Mumbai, India, with the chief complaint of a boil in the upper right back region enlarging since 6 months. Complete medical and dental history of the parents and the child was taken. The parents di... |
pmc-6034051-1 | An 11-year-old male child presented reported to the Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics with a chief complaint of forwardly placed upper front teeth. Clinical examination showed a convex facial profile due to mandibular retrusion and a mesoprosopic facial pattern. The interlabial gap was 8 mm with a ... |
pmc-6034052-1 | An 8-year-old boy was referred to the Pediatric Dental Clinic at the Federal University of Ceará (Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil) for the evaluation of a gingival enlargement of unknown duration situated in the anterior mandibular region associated with tooth pain. The patient showed normal stature and no other physical abno... |
pmc-6034056-1 | A 4-year-old female child accompanied by her mother reported to a private clinic with a chief complaint of thumb sucking habit. Detailed history revealed from her mother indicated that the child used to suck her thumb when she felt bored and while sleeping. Her mother tried to stop the habit by applying a bitter neem o... |
pmc-6034130-1 | She was 6 years old (BA 3.5 years) and 84.5 cm (−6.7 SDS) at the onset of rhGH (Fig C). Her GV also increased dramatically during the first 2 years on treatment (+14.6 and +8.4 cm/year, respectively; Table ). She reached the 3rd centile in height at age 12.3 years, remaining prepubertal and with BA retarded 1 year, wit... |
pmc-6034243-1 | The patient was a pregnant, 28-year-old female of Swedish ethnicity with no previous medical conditions or familial history, who experienced a lump in the neck during the summer of 2016. Physical examination was normal apart from the neck tumor. She did not exhibit any signs of dysphagia, hoarseness or discomfort. A 30... |
pmc-6034265-1 | The first case is of a 65-year-old Irish woman with a background of schizoaffective disorder, which had been stable in recent years, and a medical history of chronic renal failure, type 2 diabetes mellitus, atrial fibrillation, arterial hypertension, previous stroke with a right arm contracture, and aortic stenosis. Fo... |
pmc-6034265-2 | The second case is a 75-year-old Irish woman with a psychiatric history of bipolar affective disorder, stable for several years on olanzapine and valproate, enabling her to lead an independent lifestyle. There was no history of cognitive impairment. She suffered from multiple medical conditions including: atrial fibril... |
pmc-6034265-3 | The third case is of a 68-year-old Irish woman who presented to the MMUH in April 2016 with acute laryngitis. She had a background of bipolar affective disorder which had been stable for the past 30 years on monotherapy with lithium. There had been a recent history of lithium toxicity secondary to a deterioration of he... |
pmc-6034340-1 | The male patient was the naturally conceived son of a 34-year-old gravida 2, para 0, miscarriage 1 mother. His healthy parents were consanguineous (first-degree cousins, of Algerian origin), without history of hypertension, calcification or cardiomyopathy. Prenatal concerns included a fetal hypertrophic cardiomyopathy ... |
pmc-6034342-1 | A 16-year-old white girl presented to our academic children’s hospital on postoperative day six with a chief complaint of shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain. She had recently undergone an uncomplicated elective ACL reconstruction with a bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft and lateral meniscus repair with a si... |
pmc-6034759-1 | A 66-year-old African-American female was brought to the emergency room (ER) for confusion. Her past medical history is significant for polysubstance abuse (heroin, prescription opioids) with multiple prior emergency room visits for heroin overdose, bacterial endocarditis 30 years ago with remote epidural abscess, cerv... |
pmc-6034760-1 | A 35-year-old Caucasian male presented during February 2012 with a three-month history of progressive lower back pain radiating to the left leg. Dorsal spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a mass involving the left ilium, sacrum, and left sacroiliac joint. It was also invading the S1-S2 left neural foramen a... |
pmc-6034761-1 | An 81-year-old male presented for consideration of vertebral augmentation due to diagnosis of stage IV, metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma, and worsening back pain. Lupron therapy was initiated at diagnosis four months prior. Docetaxel treatment was planned for six cycles but was subsequently stopped after the first cy... |
pmc-6034762-1 | A 32-year-old pre-menopausal woman presented after a routine pap smear revealed a high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL). Subsequent cold knife cone revealed an infiltrating poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma with lymphovascular invasion. A pelvic MRI with and without contrast showed a non-enhanci... |
pmc-6035123-1 | A 64-year-old man underwent LDLT from his daughter in May 2009 for acute fulminant hepatitis B. Both the recipient and donor had prior infection with EBV. The initial immunosuppression consisted of methylprednisolone and tacrolimus, with induction therapy using basiliximab. The trough level of tacrolimus was adjusted w... |
pmc-6035394-1 | A 35-year-old man of Fulani origin in the Northern region of Cameroon, previously healthy, presented to our surgical ward with severe left submandibular non-fluctuant swelling, which was erythematous and warm to palpation. Furthermore, mild trismus and sublingual edema were noted. Otherwise, physical and neurological e... |
pmc-6035394-2 | A 32-year-old woman of Fulani origin in the Northern region of Cameroon presented to our surgical ward with a 5-day history of a painful right submandibular swelling with involvement of the right side of her neck and upper anterior chest wall. There was associated right upper quadrant abdominal pain. These symptoms wer... |
pmc-6035407-1 | We describe the case of a 34-year-old gravida II para l woman, with a gestational age of 26 + 3 weeks at admission, who had a relatively healthy 4-year-old child with her 40-year-old husband of non-consanguineous marriage. She had been on injectable contraception for 2 years and had regular menses for 6 months before t... |
pmc-6035426-1 | A 27-year-old non-HIV-infected female was admitted to our hospital because of a headache and the worsening of pre-existing visual disturbance. Her medical history comprised tuberculous meningitis treated with anti-TB drugs (2-month treatment with isoniazid, 300 mg/day; rifampin, 450 mg/day; ethambutol, 1000 mg/day; and... |
pmc-6035443-1 | Our patient is a 62-year-old male with multiple comorbidities including morbid obesity, coronary artery disease, lipodermatosclerosis of the lower extremities, chronic peripheral venous insufficiency, and prostate cancer (Gleason 4+5) on long-term androgen deprivation therapy. He was previously treated with docetaxel f... |
pmc-6035448-1 | A 7-year-old boy was referred to our hospital for an elevated BLL (> 60 μg/dL) discovered during routine screening procedures. On admission, a recheck of the BLL, tested by Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS), showed the level to be 91 μg/dL. Thus the diagnosis of lead poisoning was confirmed.
Two months before admiss... |
pmc-6035448-2 | An 8-year-old girl with rhinitis had consulted the same TCM practitioner as in case 1 and was prescribed the same nasal spray liquid to be used twice a day for 10 days. She developed severe abdominal colic, vomiting, constipation and felt fatigued. Her venous BLL was 91 μg/dL. The nasal spray contained 223,000 mg/kg (2... |
pmc-6035448-3 | A 5-year-old boy had consulted the same TCM practitioner as in Cases 1 and 2 and was prescribed the same medication to be used twice a day for 7 days. Severe abdominal pain and vomiting followed. Prior to transfer to our hospital his initial laboratory data showed markedly elevated liver enzyme levels (ALT 1083 U/L, AS... |
pmc-6035790-1 | A 53-year-old woman had symptoms of bloody stool, repeated constipation, defecation habits change, and weight loss for 1 year (Table ). She was diagnosed with locally advanced rectal cancer in Jilin University Second Hospital, Jilin, China. The tumor was located 2 cm from the anus merge, and its size was 4 cm × 3 cm. T... |
pmc-6035803-1 | A 54-year-old, right-handed unemployed Moroccan Berber woman from an urban area reported a personal medical history of intermittent epigastric pain without a history of diabetes or chronic disease, nor any special psychosocial background, and with a familial history of allergic rhinitis. She presented with a 10-year hi... |
pmc-6035805-1 | A 54-year-old postmenopausal woman from Casablanca (Morocco), presenting episodic abdominal complaints, was referred to our outpatient institution for laboratory testing as part of a routine checkup in May 2011. Her medical history was significant for extensive endometriosis confirmed by the laparoscopy procedure and i... |
pmc-6035807-1 | A 53-year-old female with no previous history visited a local hospital due to right wrist pain and swelling caused by falling. She was diagnosed with a distal fracture of the right radius, underwent splinting, and returned home. When she visited the local hospital again 2 days after the injury, blister formation on the... |
pmc-6035812-1 | We report a case of a 62-year-old male who developed DRESS syndrome after seven weeks of antibiotic treatment with vancomycin. He initially underwent instrumented thoracic spinal fusion (T1–7) due to cord compression from a metastatic T4 lesion from renal cell carcinoma and developed a postoperative deep spinal infecti... |
pmc-6035818-1 | A 53-year-old, blood group B, Rh(D)-positive female with history of metastatic adenocarcinoma status after chemotherapy treatment presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain, vomiting, and fever. She was admitted for a possible small bowel obstruction and sepsis. Upon her admission, her complete blood cou... |
pmc-6035819-1 | A 32-year-old, gravida 8, para 5, aborta 2 monochorionic diamniotic twin pregnancy (MCDA) was referred as a high-risk pregnancy to our fetal assessment clinic at 25 weeks of gestation for detailed fetal ultrasonography (USG).
The woman had no history of any past medical illness. All her previous pregnancies had resulte... |
pmc-6035825-1 | A 29-year-old, right-handed, 6-month pregnant woman presented to another hospital's emergency service with a history of falling on her outstretched left hand. X-ray was not administered to her due to pregnancy. She was treated with a long-arm splint. After 6 weeks, she was admitted to our outpatient clinic with pain an... |
pmc-6035826-1 | A 10-week-old girl was the product of a full-term pregnancy which was complicated by maternal hypertension. No significant past medical or family history was present. The patient presented with a one day history of multiple episodes of nonbilious emesis, hematochezia, lethargy, and fussiness. On physical examination, t... |
pmc-6035830-1 | The current disease story of our 68-year-old Caucasian male started two years ago, when this patient observed a hard lesion in the anal canal, which, in the first months since he observed it, was neither officially diagnosed nor treated. Ten months after that, he underwent cholecystectomy due to cholelithiasis, and the... |
pmc-6035833-1 | A 55-year-old Caucasian male with past medical history of cerebral palsy (CP) presented with nausea, vomiting, thirty-pound weight loss, and worsening bilateral lower extremity weakness for one month. A computerized tomography (CT) angiogram of the brain revealed a suprasellar mass facilitating transfer to our institut... |
pmc-6035840-1 | An 8-year-old girl was referred for investigation of hyperthyrotropinemia (increased TSH) and cushingoid features probably due to oral prednisolone intake prescribed for the management of her AD. The patient was prepubertal and overweight, with a body mass index (BMI) of 26.56 kg/m2. Already by the age of 6 months, our... |
pmc-6035845-1 | A one-year-old Thai boy was referred to Phramongkutklao Hospital due to subacute fever, abdominal distension, mucous diarrhea, and failure to thrive. He was born at term with uneventful pregnancy, and he is the first child of nonconsanguineous parents. There was no history of autoimmune or primary immunodeficiency diso... |
pmc-6035848-1 | A 61-year-old woman with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia initially presented with unstable angina; a regadenoson stress nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) revealed anterolateral wall ischemia. Subsequent coronary angiography demonstrated severe stenoses of the left anterior descending (LAD) ... |
pmc-6036243-1 | As summarized in Figure , 7 years after a revision arthroplasty of the left hip joint, a 64-year-old woman presented with increasing pain in her left hip (admitted on day 0). No sinus tract was apparent, but a 4 cm × 3 cm skin burst with crusting was observed in the anteromedial region of the left knee (unknown cause),... |
pmc-6036671-1 | A previously healthy 3-year-old boy showed limping with the left leg pain, and then fever 6 h later. Next morning, he was transferred to an emergency hospital because of loss of consciousness and purpuric legs. Within a couple of hours, shock vital signs emerged and ecchymoses extended over the lower extremities. The p... |
pmc-6036688-1 | A 52-year-old Chinese woman presented to our hospital in September 2012 with a complaint of recurrent renal stones for 6 years. The renal stones were first discovered at a local hospital 6 years ago and then she underwent bilateral ureteroscopic lithotomy and ultrasonic lithotripsy several times, but the calculus still... |
pmc-6036694-1 | A 52-year-old man was first diagnosed with HIV in 1991. He was maintained on antiretroviral therapy with emtricitabine-tenofovir and raltegravir. The HIV viral load was undetectable (less than 20 copies/ml) and the CD4 count of 850 cells/uL at the time of presentation. In December 2016, he presented to the emergency de... |
pmc-6036831-1 | A 21-year-old male with a history of Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) repair (with Dacron Patch over a large ventricular septal defect (VSD)) was admitted with complaints of fever and weight loss for 2 months and left sided abdominal pain since 1 week. He was recently admitted with similar complaints to another hospital where... |
pmc-6036836-1 | The proband is a 2-year and 7-month-old Mexican mestizo male (, individual III.2). He was referred at 5 months of age due to cholestatic syndrome characterized by jaundice and pale stools, which began as of the third week of life. He is the only child of a young, apparently healthy, and unrelated couple.
The pregnancy ... |
pmc-6036849-1 | We report a 27-year-old man known case of schizophrenia on clozapine who developed a painful erythema with tense skin blisters coalescing to form bullae filled with serous fluid on bilateral upper limbs few hours after excessive sunlight exposure (). The patient reported being exposed directly to the sun without sun pr... |
pmc-6036857-1 | A 47-year-old patient with an enormous uterine leiomyoma reaching beyond the navel and up to the costal arch was admitted. During the 14 years since its detection, because of the patient's extreme fear of an abdominal incision, the myoma was merely monitored and all suggested laparotomies thus far had been refused. At ... |
pmc-6037330-1 | A 72-year-old Caucasian female with a history of stage II lymphocyte-rich classical Hodgkin lymphoma was treated with combination chemotherapy, including doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine (ABVD) with resultant remission. After seven years in remission, she developed persistent leukocytosis and anemia... |
pmc-6037331-1 | A 77-year-old Caucasian female was admitted to the hospital for an evaluation of congestive heart failure. She gave a history of progressive peripheral edema over eight months, extending up to the knees bilaterally. She felt weak, exhausted, and had lost her appetite. She denied any orthopnoea or paroxysmal nocturnal d... |
pmc-6037334-1 | A 43-year-old Caucasian male with a medical history significant for intravenous (IV) drug use presented to the emergency department with restlessness, agitation, and profuse sweating. He reported no pain in the chest, neck, back, or abdomen. He denied a history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, coronary artery diseas... |
pmc-6037337-1 | A 10-year-old male patient presented with a 13-mm well-demarcated, dome-shaped, dark red nodule on the left ala (Figure ). It had been present for eight months. During that time, it had increased in size and bled. The lesion received no prior treatment. The remainder of the physical exam was unremarkable.
A shave biops... |
pmc-6037340-1 | A 68-year-old female presented with right upper quadrant abdominal pain and swelling. The pain was described as sharp, intermittent pain with 10/10 severity that started the day prior to admission. It was not associated with food, and she denied any fevers or chills. Her last bowel movement was the day prior to admissi... |
pmc-6037625-1 | A 9-year-old male patient with recurrent cough was referred for an evaluation of left-lung pneumonia. The patient’s medical history revealed that he had been treated for this complaint several times. The chest X-ray showed an increased opacity in the left lower lobe. He was given amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, inhaled pr... |
pmc-6037631-1 | A 53-year-old man was admitted to our cardiology department with exertional angina. He had hypertension and hyperlipidemia as cardiac risk factors. On physical examination, the patient’s vital signs were unremarkable and he had a New York Heart Association functional capacity of II. The respiratory and cardiovascular e... |
pmc-6037633-1 | A 55-year-old man with a history of chest discomfort was referred to our clinic. The patient reported that he had angina of 6 months’ duration, but his angina had changed from the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) I-II to CCS III over the preceding 2 days. His physical examination, echocardiogram, and electrocardio... |
pmc-6037656-1 | A 68-year-old woman underwent a left mastectomy and axillary lymph node dissection for left breast cancer (T4bN2M0). A pathological examination revealed an estrogen receptor-positive (ER-positive), progesterone receptor-positive (PgR-positive), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive (HER2-positive) invas... |
pmc-6037657-1 | A 54-year-old female patient presented with an abnormal shadow discovered on a routine chest X-ray. She had a history of smoking 4–5 cigarettes per month for 5 years but quit over 10 years ago. Her past medical history included a colorectal benign polyp resected by endoscopy. She did not have respiratory symptoms and l... |
pmc-6037711-1 | A 29-year-old male patient was admitted to the second affiliated hospital of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in August 2014 with complaints of toothache and fever for over 1 week. A diagnosis of acute monocytic leukemia was made and the patient received chemotherapy and antimicrobial treatment with meropenem and ... |
pmc-6037727-1 | The 61-year-old Hungarian woman was referred to the out-patient clinic of the Department of Dermatology and Allergology (Szeged; Hungary). Generalized erythroderma with mild infiltration and whitish fine scales were observed on her body (Figure A). The first onset of her skin symptoms occurred in childhood and she was ... |
Subsets and Splits
Exclude ER emergencies
Retrieves 100 descriptions that do not contain the terms 'ER' or 'emergency', providing a basic filter of the dataset.