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a 47-year - old man with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes sought care at the royal darwin hospital in the tropical north of the northern territory of australia in january 2011 after several weeks of increasing lethargy and 1 week of fevers and cough . he was patient 692 in the darwin prospective melioidosis study ( 4 ... | the frequency with which melioidosis results from inhalation rather than percutaneous inoculation or ingestion is unknown .
we recovered burkholderia pseudomallei from air samples at the residence of a patient with presumptive inhalational melioidosis and used whole - genome sequencing to link the environmental bacte... |
our patient was an 8-month - old male child of indian origin and the first issue of a nonconsanguineous marriage . he presented to our center with the complaints of cough , cold , progressively increasing breathlessness , and refusal to feed over the past 3 days . past history was elicited that the child was a full - t... | our patient presented with congenital heart disease ( chd : tetralogy of fallot ) , hypocalcemia , hypoparathyroidism , and facial dysmorphisms .
suspecting digeorge syndrome ( dgs ) , a fluorescence in situ hybridization ( fish ) analysis for 22q11.2 deletion was made .
the child had a hemizygous deletion in the 2... |
the ovaries are the most common sites affected , but endometriosis can also involve the gastrointestinal tract , urinary tract , chest , and soft tissues . endometriosis of the chest is uncommon , and the diagnosis is usually established on clinical grounds . endometrial tissue may involve the pleura by migrating from ... | chest pain is a rare sign of thoracal endometriosis associated with endometrioma of the tubo - ovarian endometrioma .
we report the case periodic episodes of chest pain concurrent with menstruation in a 35-year - old female , in which ovarian endometrioma was diagnosed and left - sided oophorectomy was performed . af... |
collapsing glomerulopathy has been recognized as a form of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis characterized by collapse of the glomerular capillary tuft and proliferation of the visceral epithelial cells . most cases have been seen in patients with hiv infection , but since 1986 an association with several non - hiv - ... | a 21-year - old woman presenting with acute epstein barr virus ( ebv ) infection ( infectious mononucleosis ) was noted to have renal involvement .
she had proteinuria , leukocyturia and microscopic hematuria , and 10 days after admission became nephrotic ( 23 g of protein per g of creatinine ) .
renal biopsy reve... |
the use of oocyte freezing for fertility preservation is becoming more widely practiced.1 although there is evidence that the success rates of oocyte cryopreservation and subsequent thaw cycles appear to approach that of a fresh in vitro fertilization ( ivf ) cycle ( coupled with reports of numerous live births ) , ooc... | our objective is to describe a successful live birth from oocyte vitrification followed by thaw , fertilization , blastocyst culture , trophectoderm biopsy , vitrification , and subsequent thaw .
fifteen mature oocytes were frozen from a patient with uterine factor infertility .
thirteen oocytes survived the thaw ,... |
since the original description of the disease by alois alzheimer , memory difficulties are considered the initial and the most prominent and typical symptom of alzheimer 's disease . more recently , the detection of elderly subjects with mild cognitive impairment and a high risk of progression to alzheimer 's disease a... | diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment relies on the presence of memory complaints . however , memory complaints are very frequent in healthy people . the objective of this study was to determine the severity and type of memory difficulties presented by elderly patients who seek for clinical help , as compared to the m... |
a total of 100 dentate dental students of which 50 males and 50 females aged between 20 and 25 years were randomly selected as representative of the young adult group . the selected students had no restorations in the anterior teeth and had not received orthodontic treatment . the clinical research study was conducted ... | aims : to determine various tooth form , arch form , and palatal form with gender identification between males and females of the saudi population.materials and methods : irreversible hydrocolloid impressions were made of the maxillary teeth of 100 dentate male and female subjects to obtain study casts .
a standardiz... |
bronchogenic cysts are not uncommon in either children or adults . in children , they comprise approximately 6% of all mediastinal masses . their presentation can range from an asymptomatic incidental finding to sudden respiratory distress . video - assisted thoracoscopy was utilized to remove a bronchogenic cyst that ... | background : bronchogenic cysts are not uncommon in either children or adults . in children , they comprise approximately 6% of all mediastinal masses .
their presentation can range from an asymptomatic incidental finding to sudden respiratory distress.case report : video - assisted thoracoscopy was utilized to remov... |
early recognition of rupture - prone atherosclerotic lesions in patients with high - graded carotid artery stenosis is an important clinical issue to prevent ischemic stroke [ 15 ] . various pathophysiological mechanisms are responsible for the plaque progression and vulnerability such as degradation of extracellular m... | early recognition of vulnerable patients is an important issue for stroke prevention . in our study ,
a multiscore analysis of various biomarkers was performed to evaluate its superiority over the analysis of single factors .
study subjects ( n = 110 ) were divided into four groups : asymptomatic patients with stab... |
knowledge of the anatomical variations of the axillary region has become more relevant with increasing surgeries of this region for breast cancer , reconstruction procedures and axillary by - pass . lager 's arch or the axillary arch ( aa ) is the best - known variant structure in the axilla . it is a muscular or fibro... | langer 's arch is the best - known anatomic variant of definite surgical implication in the region of the axilla .
this rare anomaly is a muscular slip extending from the latissimus dorsi ( ld ) muscle to the tendons , muscles or fasciae around the superior part of the humerus . in this report
, we present a rare c... |
a 63-year - old woman presented with sudden onset vertigo and was diagnosed with an acute infarction in the left cerebellum on october 17 , 2015 . on the brain magnetic resonance imaging ( mri ) , an acute infarction was observed in the territory of the left superior cerebellar artery ( sca ) ( fig . magnetic resonance... | the duplicated origin of vertebral artery ( va ) is a very rare condition .
it could be easily misdiagnosed as an arterial dissection on selective catheter angiography , especially in a patient with acute cerebellar infarction of unknown etiology .
we report a patient with an acute cerebellar infarction and duplica... |
the potential of comparative effectiveness research ( cer ) for dealing with practical clinical questions , enhancing the quality and effectiveness of care , and personalizing evidence - based care , is clear.1 yet cer strains the current clinical research paradigm because of its emphasis on assessing effectiveness in ... | the patient - centered outcomes research institute ( pcori ) has launched pcornet , a major initiative to support an effective , sustainable national research infrastructure that will advance the use of electronic health data in comparative effectiveness research ( cer ) and other types of research . in december 2013 ,... |
appendiceal neuroendocrine tumours ( nets ) are the commonest tumours of the appendix and may be found in 0.30.9% of all appendicectomy samples . about 6% of these share mixed histologic features of bot mucinous glandular and neuroendocrine differentiation and other names have been used in the literature for this type ... | goblet cell carcinoid tumours are often considered a subset of appendiceal neuroendocrine tumours which behave more aggressively .
they usually metastasize through transcoelomic / peritoneal invasion and common sites include the ovaries , peritoneum , and liver .
metastases may have goblet cell carcinoid , signet r... |
blunt trauma of the abdominal wall can lead to a traumatic abdominal wall hernia ( tawh ) . defined tawh as the herniation through disrupted musculature and fascia associated with adequate trauma , without skin penetration , and no evidence of a prior hernia defect at the site of injury . although this type of hernia... | although blunt abdominal trauma is frequent , traumatic abdominal wall hernias ( tawh ) are rare .
we describe a large tawh with associated intra - abdominal lesions that were caused by high - energy trauma .
the diagnosis was missed by clinical examination but was subsequently revealed by a computed tomography ( c... |
sheehan 's syndrome ( ss ) is one of the commonest causes of hypopituitarism in underdeveloped and developing countries . it occurs as a result of ischemic pituitary necrosis due to severe postpartum hemorrhage.[13 ] although a small percentage of patients with ss may present as abrupt onset acute hypopituitarism immed... | sheehan 's syndrome occurs as a result of ischemic pituitary necrosis secondary to severe postpartum bleeding .
it is one of the most common causes of hypopituitarism , characterized by variable clinical presentation .
acute kidney injury occurs rarely in sheehan 's syndrome and most of the cases have been found to... |
it has been proved previously that thp-1 cells can differentiate into macrophages following treatment with 100 nm phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate ( pma ) for 72 h and macrophages can transform into foam cells by incubation in the presence of 50 g / ml oxidized low - density lipoprotein ( ox - ldl ) for 48 h. theref... | atherosclerosis has a high incidence and is harmful to human health .
an elevated level of oxidized low - density lipoprotein ( ox - ldl ) is one of the major risk factors for atherosclerosis . during atherogenesis progression ,
circulating monocytes adhere to the intima and differentiate into macrophages .
after... |
malignant lymphoma is a heterogeneous group of diseases with a wide spectrum of histological subtypes . traditionally , malignant lymphomas have been divided into hodgkin lymphomas and non - hodgkin lymphomas . more than 40 subgroups are defined ; both indolent and aggressive variants exist , and a wide range of treatm... | aim of databasethe danish national lymphoma registry ( lyfo ) was established in order to monitor and improve the diagnostic evaluation and the quality of treatment of all lymphoma patients in denmark.study populationthe lyfo database was established in 1982 as a seminational database including all lymphoma patients re... |
a prospective clinical trial was conducted on a consecutive series of the patients with primary io overaction or secondary overaction due to superior oblique palsy . institutional review board approval was obtained and signed informed consent was obtained from all participants in accordance with the declaration of hels... | purpose : to evaluate the alteration of lower lid configuration and function with anterior transposition surgery of the inferior oblique ( io ) muscle.patients and methods : a prospective clinical trial was conducted on a consecutive series of patients underwent anterior transposition of the io as a sole operation .
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