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pmc-6011128-1 | A 50-year-old Asian male with a past medical history of supraventricular tachycardia and obstructive sleep apnea on CPAP at night presented with one month of intermittent flu-like symptoms, orthopnea, and dyspnea on exertion. At the onset of these symptoms, he presented to a walk-in clinic and was diagnosed with influe... |
pmc-6011133-1 | A 64-year-old white male with no prior medical history presented to his primary care physician for routine follow-up. There was no history of hypertension. During work-up for elevated liver transaminases, he was found to have hepatitis C. Before initiation of Harvoni, he underwent CT imaging of the abdomen with contras... |
pmc-6011134-1 | A 34-year-old Gravida 11 Para 3073 at 16 weeks and 1 day gestation presented to the emergency room of an outside hospital with a 2-day history of progressively worsening nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, exacerbated by eating. The pregnancy had been unremarkable. Her past medical history included endometriosis and infert... |
pmc-6011142-1 | The first case concerns a 26-year-old prelingually Deaf male, with a prior history of Tourette's syndrome, bipolar disorder, and HIV, who was placed under a Baker Act at a local hospital for “acting erratic and psychotic.” A Baker Act is a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold within the state of Florida that can be ini... |
pmc-6011142-2 | The second case involves a 30-year-old Deaf, Hispanic male who presented to the Emergency Department after his mother reported that the he was behaving oddly and not taking his risperidone. Per reports, the patient was talking to his mother about going places in a UFO and exhibiting disorganized and illogical behaviors... |
pmc-6011145-1 | A 36-year-old male, a seasoned cyclist with no past medical history, presents to the emergency department with complaints of lightheadedness and diaphoresis after a bicycle fall. Patient was participating in a bicycle race when another rider ahead of him fell causing the patient to swerve to avoid him. Patient states t... |
pmc-6011150-1 | A 30-year-old male with history of active smoking (1 pack per day for 10 years) and external hemorrhoids came to the preop anesthesia clinic for anesthesia evaluation fitness and was found to have high blood pressure (BP) (234/144). He was referred immediately to the emergency room (ER) for BP control. In the ER, BP wa... |
pmc-6011152-1 | Case 1 concerned a 71-year-old male presenting with gait difficulties and vertigo. Cranial MRI revealed a low and focal contrast-enhancing nodular tumor in the left cerebellar hemisphere and upper vermis (). The lesion appeared hypointense relative to gray matter on T1 weighted (T1w) images and moderately hyperintense ... |
pmc-6011152-2 | Case 2 was a 72-year-old male who was referred to the hospital because of change of personality and loss of weight. Cranial MRI showed a large low contrast-enhancing mass in the right cerebellar hemisphere consisting of a lateral solid component and a small medial cystic. The tumor caused occlusive hydrocephalus but no... |
pmc-6011155-1 | An 86-year-old female with a history of metastatic ovarian cancer presented to the ED with painful bilateral lower extremity edema and a left lateral leg ulceration. Her metastatic ovarian cancer had been diagnosed by malignant pleural effusion five months earlier, and she had completed neoadjuvant chemotherapy with ca... |
pmc-6011161-1 | A 48-year-old female with known breast carcinoma was screened for possible dissemination with whole-body computed tomography (CT) and a bone scintigraphy scan. The bone scan revealed a tumor in the entire right tibia. The patient reported no symptoms from the tibia tumor. A plain X-ray and magnetic resonance image (MRI... |
pmc-6011162-1 | A 26-year-old male healthy Asian student presented to an emergency department in Australia with sudden onset generalised weakness affecting predominantly his lower limbs after eating dinner. The patient reported difficulty standing and difficulty lifting his arms without any muscle pain or paraesthesia, headache, or ba... |
pmc-6011163-1 | Thirty-three-year-old male with diabetes and seizure disorder presented to the emergency department (ED) with worsening dyspnea and hemoptysis. Two weeks prior to his ED presentation, he was treated with antibiotics for community acquired pneumonia with minimal improvement. Upon further inquiry, patient admitted to vap... |
pmc-6011165-1 | A 41-year-old man without any underlying diseases such as cardiovascular disease was hospitalized for spontaneous gum bleeding, epistaxis, and lower limb ecchymosis. Laboratory data on the admission date showed leukocytosis (WBC, 15,820/mm3; promyelocyte, 66%, with Auer rod), anemia (Hb, 9.5 g/dL), thrombocytopenia (PL... |
pmc-6011167-1 | A 20-year-old fit and healthy man presented with sudden collapse after running for 3 hours under the hot sun (ambient temperature 39°C) during a marathon competition. After finishing his run for 35 km, he felt unwell and collapsed. He was brought to the hospital immediately. No measures were taken to lower his temperat... |
pmc-6011169-1 | A 63-year-old woman was transferred to our department from the internal medicine clinic of the hospital with a diagnosis of acute abdomen due to possible rupture of the bladder.
The patient was admitted in the internal medicine clinic three days earlier due to acute abdominal pain. She had a known medical history of un... |
pmc-6011170-1 | Our case is of a 9-year-old Caucasian male who lives with his mother, stepfather, older brother (15 years), and sister (12 years). He has preexisting diagnoses of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), inattentive subtype, but was not taking any regular medication at the time of presenta... |
pmc-6011174-1 | A 46-year-old Japanese woman with known SLE was admitted to our hospital due to sudden weight loss and respiratory distress. Her vitals on arrival were a temperature of 37.1°C, heart rate of 96 bpm, blood pressure of 148/82 mmHg, respiratory rate of 18 per minute, and oxygen saturation of 95% in room air. The patient w... |
pmc-6011191-1 | A 38-year-old North African man, with no past medical history, consulted our out-patient clinic for a painless left scrotal mass. There was no history of previous orchitis or scrotal contusion. He noted the mass a month ago. A physical examination found a 2 cm palpable mass in the upper pole of his left testis. There w... |
pmc-6011201-1 | The present case involves a 62-year-old woman admitted to surgical oncology unit for a planned transanal excision of a large polyp of the mid rectum. Following a positive faecal occult blood test, colonoscopy detected the presence of a large flat neoplastic lesion, 50 mm in maximum diameter, tending to grow laterally a... |
pmc-6011251-1 | A 20-year-old male patient was referred to our clinic in December 2017 for acute liver failure (ALF) of unknown origin. History revealed no pre-existing medical conditions, anamnesis was empty for exposition with predisposing agents such as previous drug-use, promiscuity, pork consumption or autoimmune disorders. The i... |
pmc-6011332-1 | The second patient is a 5-year old boy, born as a first child to healthy non-consanguineous parents. The mother reported two previous early spontaneous abortions. Otherwise, the family history is unremarkable. He was born after an uneventful pregnancy in the 37th week of gestation after a spontaneous start of the deliv... |
pmc-6011335-1 | The patient is a 43-year-old woman who was admitted for the first time for a progressive non-painful, mobile mass of the right inguinal fold evolving for 7 months. The medical history of the patient included childhood asthma, chronic tonsillitis, seven pregnancies and four children, caesarean section and abortions. Pel... |
pmc-6011350-1 | Patient: a 9-year, 7-month-old Japanese girl (height 127 cm, body weight 33 kg, body mass index 20.5 kg/m2).
Primary complaint: severe deformity of the femur.
Past medical history: no notable history.
The patient was referred to our facility with complaints of progressive deformity of her right femur associated with an... |
pmc-6011475-1 | We describe the case of a 27-year-old white woman who had experienced an emergency caesarean delivery at 39 weeks for fetal distress with no postpartum complications. As part of our ongoing study “Vaginal delivery after caesarean section”, she underwent saline contrast sonohysterography 6 months after the caesarean sec... |
pmc-6011843-1 | A 60-year-old female patient met with a traffic accident while walking. The patient had a coma and was taken to a nearby hospital for emergence treatment, then shifted to our hospital for further treatment after 2 weeks. On presentation, the patient was conscious, oriented and hemodynamically stable. The left lower lim... |
pmc-6011856-1 | The patient was a healthy 25-year-old man with a one-year history of right ankle pain following trauma.
He had met a car accident while walking. One year earlier, he had undergone open reduction and internal fixation on his right ankle for fracture at another hospital. A tibia diaphysis spiral fracture was fixed by the... |
pmc-6011861-1 | A 35 year-old male was referred to our unit with a right distal tibial non-union, which had progressively deviated into varus deformity. He had initially sustained a high-energy, multifragmentary compound (Gustilo–Anderson Type 3A) fracture in a road traffic accident 4 months earlier. After successful treatment of the ... |
pmc-6011861-2 | A 67 year-old female was referred with a right distal tibial non-union with progressive valgus deformity following a fragility fracture five months previously. It was initially treated with locked antegrade intra-medullary nailing.
The initial nail was removed and an expandable retrograde nail was inserted. Two months ... |
pmc-6011861-3 | A 73 year-old male presented to our unit with a multifragmentary Pilon fracture and was treated with primary retrograde expandable Fixion® nail. Regular follow-up revealed good union at 22 weeks and the patient was able to walk without significant pain. Although we recommended the removal of the nail, the patient didn'... |
pmc-6012632-1 | A 79-year-old male with a past medical history significant for pancreatic pseudocyst secondary to idiopathic acute pancreatitis diagnosed two years ago presents with severe acute gastrointestinal bleed with a hemoglobin of 5.8 g/dL. Throughout the week prior to admission, the patient had been experiencing melena. He wa... |
pmc-6013867-1 | A 73-year-old white man presented to our emergency department with a 3-day history of left lower extremity swelling and acute-onset shortness of breath. On evaluation, he was tachycardic with a pulse of 113, hypertensive with a systolic blood pressure of 130-170 mmHg, and demonstrated poor oxygen saturation of 81% on r... |
pmc-6013898-1 | A nine-year-old entire male greyhound presented with head trauma resulting from a collision with a park bench. The dog had no previous significant clinical history. On examination, cardiovascular parameters were stable overt distress in the animal not apparent. The dog was ambulatory with normal gait and posture devoid... |
pmc-6013898-2 | A ten-year-old neutered female Cavalier King Charles Spaniel presented for a gradually enlarging mass on the right frontal bone with no associated clinical signs. The mass was bone-like and non-painful upon palpation. The remainder of clinical examination was within normal limits. Fine needle aspirates of the mass reve... |
pmc-6013943-1 | A 44-year old male was referred following investigation for chest pain and dyspnoea. He had no pre-existing co-morbidities. Physical examination revealed feeble femoral pulses and he was found to be hypertensive with marked differences between the upper and lower limbs (systolic blood pressure upper limb 190mmmHg, lowe... |
pmc-6013953-1 | A 79-year-old Japanese woman with a weight of 72 kg who has been maintained on anti-hypertensive drugs, including hydralazine, for more than 10 years, was advised on acute onset of proteinuria and microscopic hematuria by her family doctor. At this time, her serum creatinine (Cr) level was within normal range (0.8 mg/d... |
pmc-6013965-1 | A 54 year-old Caucasian male without significant comorbidities was diagnosed with IgG kappa multiple myeloma in 2005. Initial treatment consisted of doxorubicin, vincristine, and dexamethasone followed by an autologous stem cell transplant (SCT) with melphalan 200 mg/m2 conditioning. He remained in remission for 2.5 ye... |
pmc-6013977-1 | A 25-year-old woman was hospitalized due to frequent premature ventricular beats of high grade (17,000 per day) and repeated episodes of bidirectional non-sustained ventricular tachycardia without syncope. Echocardiography revealed enlarged left ventricular dimension and local ventricular wall thinning. Upon routine cl... |
pmc-6014015-1 | The patient, a 52-year-old female, was admitted to the department of gastrointestinal surgery of Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute in September, 2016, due to space-occupying lesions in the colon found by colonoscopy during medical examination 2 weeks before. Histopathological examination of endoscopic biops... |
pmc-6014478-1 | Patient 2, a 1-year-old boy, presented with microcephaly (OFC 43.5 cm; −2.8 SD) and attacks of abnormal arm extension. His motor and speech development were delayed. He showed truncal hypotonia on physical examination. His length was 84 cm, he weighed 10 kg. EEG results were normal. MRI showed a short and hypoplastic c... |
pmc-6014478-2 | Patient 3, a 13-year-old boy, presented with mild to moderate speech and developmental delay and attention deficit disorder (ADD). He did not have hypotonia. His OFC was 52.5 cm (−1.25 SD). He was 156 cm tall (−0.75 SD). No structural brain anomalies were seen on MRI. He had retrognathia, mild hypertelorism, and a slig... |
pmc-6014478-3 | Patient 4, a 4-year-old boy, presented with severe speech delay, motor delay, and hypotonia. MRI showed agenesis of the splenium of the corpus callosum. At 3 years of age, an OFC of 49 cm was measured (−1 SD). His height was 98 cm (0 SD). He had hypertelorism, a prominent nasal tip, and a bulbous nose, a small mouth an... |
pmc-6014500-1 | A 60-year-old man was transferred to our department with complaints of chest distress and wheezing for 3 d. The patient reported no significant comorbidities apart from a 3-year history of hypertension. An examination revealed the following: temperature, 36.8 °C; blood pressure, 162/98 mm Hg; pulse rate, 78 beats/min; ... |
pmc-6014571-1 | Patient 1 is a 74-year-old male who underwent HoLEP for refractory bladder outlet obstruction and bladder stones. His medical history included BPH complicated by recurrent urinary tract infections and bladder stones, elevated prostate specific antigen (biopsy negative), hyperlipidemia, and hypertension. Preoperative tr... |
pmc-6014571-2 | Patient 2 is a 78-year-old male who was experiencing persistent lower urinary tract symptoms despite combined medical therapy with alpha blockade and 5-alpha reductase inhibitors. His medical history included coronary artery disease status post-coronary artery bypass grafting and percutaneous coronary intervention, and... |
pmc-6014576-1 | A 19-day-old male infant was urethral catheterized with a 6F infant feeding tube followed by a VCUG for evaluation of vesicoureteral reflux. After the procedure, the catheter could not be removed. Therefore, the pediatric unit consulted us regarding the problem. Under fluoroscopic guidance, a guidewire was inserted thr... |
pmc-6014577-1 | The patient was a 65-year-old woman who presented with a 1-month history of bloody stool. A digital colonoscopy with biopsies revealed adenocarcinoma in the sigmoid colon. The patient elected to undergo primary laparoscopic colon resection, and the procedure was reported to be uneventful. However, on the 6th postoperat... |
pmc-6015456-1 | A 12-year-old Cameroonian girl from the "Baka" ethnic group and residing in a remote area of the East region of Cameroon presented with a progressively extensive, pruritic, and painless pigmented skin lesion on her back, persistent since she was 2-days old. She was born through normal vaginal delivery at term from an u... |
pmc-6015461-1 | A 52-year-old menopausal woman complained of intermittent vaginal spotting for 1 month. She denied any systemic disease, dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia, body weight loss, abdominal pain, or abdominal fullness. Gynecologic history was gravida 2 and para 2. Transvaginal ultrasound revealed a 10-cm multi-lobular cystic pelvic ... |
pmc-6015595-1 | In December 2006, a 31-year-old woman was referred to a neurologist because of consciousness disorder and fainting. Her main problems were obesity, snoring and waking up with a feeling of suffocation in the middle of sleep. The intraoral examination showed a large soft palate (). The soft palate was scored as class III... |
pmc-6015668-1 | A fit and active 38-year-old female presented to the Accident and Emergency Department with a four-day history of worsening right shoulder pain radiating down the right arm, with swelling around the shoulder. This was accompanied by intermittent fevers for the preceding two days. The patient graded the pain to be 8/10 ... |
pmc-6015673-1 | A 50-year-old female (BMI = 35) presented to our clinic in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, with a chief complaint of right shoulder pain. She has a history of non-insulin-dependent diabetes, hypertension, anxiety, depression, and fatigue. Her medications included hydroxyzine for anxiety, ibuprofen for joint pains, lisinopri... |
pmc-6015681-1 | We present a case of 40-year-old building and construction male worker who slipped and fell from a height of three (3) meters and sustained a deep penetrating wound on the right side of the anterior neck a week prior to presenting at our facility. He was apparently working from the above height when he slipped and fell... |
pmc-6015682-1 | A 45-year-old male from the Netherlands presented with a painless right parotid swelling that was progressively increasing in size for the past 8 months. Though occasionally he suffered from jaw lock, other symptoms associated with neurologic deficit such as drooling, facial weakness, paresthesia, or auditory defects w... |
pmc-6015693-1 | This 34-year-old male, who was medically free, was presented to the emergency department by the Red Crescent after an assault injury. He was conscious, alert, oriented, and complaining of right shoulder pain and bleeding due to assault by a cleaver. On examination, there was a wound around 20 cm on the posterior aspect... |
pmc-6015694-1 | A 53-year-old male presented with hoarseness of 12-year duration. He gave no history of breathing or swallowing difficulty. On enquiring further, he had complaints related to gastric acid reflux. He was a smoker but had quit smoking 6 months back. He is a politician with a history of voice abuse. On flexible fibreoptic... |
pmc-6015696-1 | A 68-year-old man who was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis three months prior to admission presented with acute nonpruritic painless 1 cm erythematous papules over the upper torso, accompanied with subjective fevers, chills, nausea, vomiting, and frontal headache for 2 days. His past medical history was significant for... |
pmc-6015701-1 | An 80-year-old female presented to clinic with a mass over the superior aspect of the right scapula. The mass was achy but did not interfere with performing activities of daily living. However, it was bothersome for the patient and she stated that it had been enlarging over the previous few months. She denies any local... |
pmc-6015702-1 | A 74-year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital in March 2017 to undergo liver resection to treat a malignant hepatic lesion diagnosed with CT and PET and a fine-needle biopsy positive for squamous carcinoma. The hepatic tumour discovered during follow-up for a previous bladder cancer submitted to endoscopic su... |
pmc-6015706-1 | A 45-year-old woman was admitted to an emergency department with dyspnea and swelling on her hands and face for at least three days. She was nonsmoker and did not have any chronic disease. Her dyspnea and hypoxemia were getting worse and she was accepted to ICU. Noninvasive mechanical ventilation (MV) was used for init... |
pmc-6015711-1 | A healthy 7-year-old girl of Indian descent presented with one-year duration of hypochromic linear bands in two regions. The lesions were present on the right forearm and left leg and buttocks. Neither the patient nor her parents were able to recall any inciting illness, allergy, or environmental or social exposure tha... |
pmc-6015712-1 | A 58-year-old man underwent pancreatoduodenectomy and right hepatic lobectomy with choledochojejunostomy for a duodenal gastrointestinal stromal tumor with multiple liver metastases. Ten years after the operation, he developed recurrent fever and upper abdominal pain with hepatobiliary enzyme elevation. He underwent do... |
pmc-6015712-2 | A 68-year-old man underwent extended right hepatectomy and bile duct resection with choledochojejunostomy for hilar cholangiocarcinoma. Relapsing cholangitis occurred because of anastomotic benign stenosis after the operation. Biliary stenting with PS had repeatedly been performed, but the stenosis did not improve. Thu... |
pmc-6015715-1 | A 33-year-old man was involved in an automobile accident and was brought to our hospital by ambulance. He had been in the front passenger seat and had been wearing a three-point seatbelt. He reported severe back pain, but showed no neurological deficit.
Anteroposterior and lateral radiographs of the spine showed an inc... |
pmc-6015717-1 | A 20-year-old male presented with worsening bloody diarrhea of 4 months' duration associated with cramping abdominal pain and weight loss of 4 Kg. On admission, he was hemodynamically stable. Physical examination showed mild tenderness to deep palpation in the left lower quadrant. Laboratory tests were consistent with ... |
pmc-6015717-2 | A 71-year-old male, previously healthy, was seen for the first time in May 2011 for diarrhea and rectal bleed. His physical examination was unremarkable. Laboratory tests were within normal range. Ileocolonoscopy showed mucosal inflammation and ulcerations over a segment of 7cm at the level of transverse colon. Biopsie... |
pmc-6015989-1 | A 32-year-old male presented to the emergency department with 20 mins of cramping retrosternal chest pain radiating to his left shoulder accompanied by sweating and shortness of breath. He did not have a history of any cardiovascular risk factors, such as a history of smoking, diabetes, or hypertension. He did not have... |
pmc-6015993-1 | A 64-year-old African-American male presented with an elevated PSA of 9.3 ng/mL and no previous history of prostate biopsy. He had a systematic TRUS-guided extended sextant biopsy with two of 12 cores demonstrating prostate cancer, one with GS 4+3 and a second with GS 3+4, both in the left apical region. He had no base... |
pmc-6015993-2 | A 65-year-old Caucasian male presented with an elevated PSA of 8.98 ng/mL and a history of TRUS-guided extended sextant biopsy negative for prostate cancer three years prior to presentation. At the time of his prior prostate biopsy, his PSA was 7.25 ng/mL. He had mild baseline lower urinary tract symptoms with an assoc... |
pmc-6015995-1 | A 58-year-old Caucasian woman, with past medical history significant for a 2.4 cm GIST diagnosed with esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) (Figures , ) (performed for persistent epigastric pain despite therapy) six months earlier and s/p laparoscopic partial gastrectomy, presented to the emergency department (ED) with new-... |
pmc-6015996-1 | A six-year-old-African American female presented to our care in April 2010 for the evaluation of sleep attacks and apnea during sleep. According to her mother, the patient experienced cataplexy episodes with laughter. At that time, the patient underwent a nocturnal polysomnogram (NPSG) for further investigation. Accord... |
pmc-6015999-1 | We present the case of a white, Hispanic, 58-year-old, non-smoker female. She has a past medical history of obstructive sleep apnea and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (chronic bronchitis). Her travel history includes the Dominican Republic and Caribbean Islands. She worked for several years in an automobile repa... |
pmc-6016000-1 | A nine-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain and distention for the past one week, with sudden increase in intensity of pain for the last four hours. The patient had not yet reached the age of menarche. There was no associated nausea or vomiting and her bowel habits were not affected. ... |
pmc-6016001-1 | Informed consent was obtained from the patient prior to the submission of this paper.
A 74-year-old Caucasian woman presented with fever, fatigue, and painful erythematous nodules. Her oncologic history was significant for MDS (refractory cytopenia with multilineage dysplasia subtype) diagnosed three years previously. ... |
pmc-6016002-1 | A 68-year-old Caucasian man presented with generalized weakness, dizziness without syncope, polyuria, and dyspnea on exertion. He had a past medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and coronary artery disease. Physical examination was as follows: temperature 99.3°F, pulse 84 per minute, blood pressure 168/80 m... |
pmc-6016128-1 | A 53-year-old white man presented to our Department with a 2-month history of a painful and moderately swollen left wrist. His past medical history was unremarkable. Standard anteroposterior and lateral X-rays of his left wrist revealed two osteolytic lesions involving the distal ulna and the lunate fossa of the distal... |
pmc-6016132-1 | On March 2017, a male, caucasian, 56-year-old, non-smoker patient came to our observation. He was employed as a truck driver. Remote clinical history included hepatitis, nasal polyposis treated with functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS), chronic sinusitis, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) undergone laparosco... |
pmc-6016151-1 | A 54-year-old Caucasian male presented with an enlarging right neck mass in November, 2015. Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) was performed on the mass at that time which showed malignant cells consistent with squamous cell carcinoma. The patient did not have follow-up or further treatment at that time due to socioeconomic ... |
pmc-6016156-1 | A 41-year-old man, a native from Rio de Janeiro and an HIV and HCV carrier, without criteria for the treatment for HCV (detectable viral load, without cirrhosis and with normal transaminase levels), who had abandoned ART, had attended the Gaffreé and Guinle University Hospital's immunology clinic complaining about cont... |
pmc-6016157-1 | A 45-year-old male patient gazed at the sun several times during a baseball game that took place on a sunny day at 7 weeks prior to his first visit to our clinic. Immediately after gazing at the sun, the subject reported having bilateral central scotoma and decreased vision. At the time of the incident, the patient was... |
pmc-6016161-1 | A 55-year-old woman with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, obesity, and depression was referred to an endocrinologist with complaints of weight loss, palpitations, and diarrhea. The patient also had hypertension and was taking α-adrenergic receptor antagonists and a calcium channel blocker. She was... |
pmc-6016165-1 | A 69-year-old Caucasian man with schizophrenia represented to our emergency department (ED) from a psychiatric hospital with catatonia, notable for agitation and altered mental status requiring physical restraints. Limited physical exam was revealing for increased tone and rigidity in bilateral lower extremities while ... |
pmc-6016168-1 | A 67-year-old woman, gravida 1, para 1, with a medical history of psoriasis and bipolar affective disorder, presented with postmenopausal vaginal bleeding. Physical examination found an 18-week sized uterus without palpable groin lymph nodes. Both adnexa were unremarkable. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the pelvis... |
pmc-6016169-1 | A 62-year-old Japanese female patient presented with a left abdominal mass. She was referred to our surgical outpatient clinic to undergo a detailed examination and treatment for the left abdominal mass. A clinical examination revealed an elastic soft, smooth-surfaced, painless, child-head-sized tumor with poor mobilit... |
pmc-6016171-1 | A 41-year-old man presented to the emergency department following an automotive accident where he was thrown from his motorcycle traveling approximately 35 mph. The patient denied loss-of-consciousness and chiefly complained of left wrist pain at presentation with exam demonstrating tenderness and swelling. Radiographs... |
pmc-6016173-1 | A 56-year-old female presented with repeated fevers in a span of four months. Her medical history was significant for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with nephritis and hypothyroidism. Her medications were methylprednisolone and levothyroxine. She was allergic to cephalexin, penicillin, and levofloxacin. She was a n... |
pmc-6016175-1 | A 30-year-old woman was transferred to our emergency department five hours after delivering her baby at a clinic. She was a primipara at 41 weeks of gestation. She delivered a baby with vertex presentation vaginally, without dystocia. Massive vaginal bleeding started 2 hours after delivery. After excluding birth canal ... |
pmc-6016216-1 | A 55-year-old gentleman, ex-smoker, presented to our hospital complaining of mild epigastric pain, regurgitation, and heartburn. On top of that, he has a long-standing history of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), which was managed by proton pump inhibitors. His past medical history was significant for hypertensio... |
pmc-6016220-1 | A 25-year-old G3 P0020 at 36 3/7 weeks of gestational age with a singleton pregnancy presents with acute-onset, severe back pain and fever. Pain was described as constant, aching, and sharp. Her prenatal course was significant for multiple left antecubital abscesses requiring drainage (culture positive for methicillin-... |
pmc-6016221-1 | A 32-year-old female with a past medical history significant for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and hepatitis C antibody positive presented from the behavioral health center for a 2-day history of a diffuse rash. The rash had started on her upper extremities and then spread to her face, chest, and thighs 2 days prior... |
pmc-6016224-1 | A 23-year-old woman presented with progressive headache, nausea, and vomiting for 1 week. Right-side weakness, ptosis, and diplopia were also found. Due to acute onset conscious disturbance (Glasgow Coma Scale of E3VaM5) in the hospital, brain computed tomography was arranged and revealed an enhanced brain tumor with n... |
pmc-6016228-1 | A 4-year-old boy was admitted to pediatric department because of newly occurred hypertension as status posterior right heminephrectomy of neuroblastoma. Computed tomography angiography (CTA) scan revealed renal artery severe stenosis and right kidney atrophy. He had undergone Transcatheter Arterial Embolization of righ... |
pmc-6016228-2 | A 61-year-old male patient was admitted to the liver surgery department because of discovering liver mass for 6 days. The alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) was 1009 ng/ml, and liver contrast CT scan indicated hepatic cell cancer in the right lobe. As a generally healthy status before surgery, the patient received ALTPS surgery. ... |
pmc-6016423-1 | A 25-year-old previously healthy male patient from Yunnan province in Southern China was airlifted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University for “fever of unknown origin” and respiratory failure on October 29, 2017. Ten days before, he started having a fever of 38°C and mild diarrhea without an obvious et... |
pmc-6016639-1 | A 38-year-old male was referred to the outpatient clinic at the Department of Nephrology with treatment-resistant hypertension, rapidly developing edema and overt proteinuria (week 11, Fig. A). The patient was initially followed at the outpatient clinic at the Department of Endocrinology with poorly controlled type 1 d... |
pmc-6016681-1 | A 67-year-old Caucasian man came to our attention after a fixed oral prosthesis surgery. His past medical history was significant for a paroxysmal atrial fibrillation for which he was taking Amiodarone and Acenocumarol with stable International Normalized Ratio (INR) values. Following orthopantomography and CT scan, th... |
pmc-6016850-1 | The patient, a 32-year-old Caucasian woman, presented to the West Virginia University Hospital Emergency Department via Emergency Medical Services. The patient had been at her usual baseline state of health with no significant past medical history prior to visiting the chiropractor for neck adjustment earlier that day ... |
pmc-6017126-1 | A 51-year-old woman with a history of morbid obesity, obstructive sleep apnea on nocturnal continuous positive airway pressure ventilation, and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus presented to the urgent care clinic with an unresponsive intractable chronic headache for almost a year. The headache was 7/10, intermit... |
pmc-6017127-1 | A 57-year-old Caucasian female presented to the hospital with a worsening, diffuse, bullous eruption. The eruption started four weeks prior and was distributed mainly on her lower extremities. The patient went to her primary care physician, who prescribed doxycycline and sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim and told the patie... |
pmc-6017155-1 | The patient is a 49-year-old male with longstanding back and left leg pain resistant to pain management. He developed acute worsening of his left sciatic pain and suffered a fall with a left wrist fracture. He subsequently developed shortness of breath and was seen in the emergency room. A computerized tomography (CT) ... |
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