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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38374857/recurrent-rhabdomyolysis-induced-by-a-viral-illness-in-a-young-patient
#21
Zahid Khan, Osman Ahmed, Syed Aun Muhammad, Jonard Carpio
Rhabdomyolysis is a syndrome caused by skeletal muscle disruption that results in the release of muscle proteins into circulation, which can lead to life-threatening systemic complications. These complications include acute kidney injury (AKI), renal failure, compartment syndrome, and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. Patients commonly present with muscle pain, fatigue, weakness, and dark-colored urine. We present the case of a 37-year-old male who presented to the hospital with pain in the lower limbs and difficulty in mobility for the past two days after returning from Jamaica...
January 2024: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38371114/a-case-report-of-whitmore-s-disease-a-true-masquerader
#22
Chandrashekar Patil, Nikhitha Mangalagiri, Prakash Ajmera, Prashanth Kumar Ks, Haritha Reddy
Melioidosis is an uncommon bacterial infection that is endemic to countries like Southeast Asia and Northern Australia but less common in temperate zones than when seen in returned travelers. This disease can affect almost every organ, with the lung being the most common organ to be involved. Here, we present a 21-year-old diabetic male who came with complaints of fever, nonproductive cough, and sore throat with grade III-IV shortness of breath. Laboratory investigations revealed hypokalemia and isolates of Burkholderia pseudomallei on blood culture and sensitivity...
January 2024: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38369049/low-usefulness-of-reporting-tonsillar-pcr-ct-values-in-pharyngeal-infections-with-fusobacterium-necrophorum
#23
JOURNAL ARTICLE
David Nygren, Lisa Wasserstrom, Gustav Torisson, Karin Holm
Tonsillar Fusobacterium necrophorum PCR Ct-values were higher in participants with asymptomatic tonsillar carriage than patients with pharyngeal infections. However, Ct-values were not associated with severity of disease or predictive of development of complications and hence lacked clinical usefulness. The reporting of F. necrophorum Ct-values in clinical samples is not recommended.
February 16, 2024: Anaerobe
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38367183/a-case-of-late-onset-organizing-pneumonia-following-covid-19-infection-in-a-post-kidney-transplant-patient
#24
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kumiko Fujieda, Shoji Saito, Akihito Tanaka, Kazuhiro Furuhashi, Yosinari Yasuda, Yuta Sano, Masashi Kato, Shoichi Maruyama
A 50-year-old man who had undergone a living-donor kidney transplant 12 years prior for chronic renal failure due to autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease contracted coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19). He had a positive antigen test, mild symptoms, sore throat, and fever of 37.9 ℃. The patient was treated with molnupiravir for 5 days, and the symptoms disappeared 5 days after onset. However, 10 days after onset, he developed a fever of approximately 37 ℃ and a non-productive cough; 27 days after onset, the patient was hospitalized for anorexia and a worsening respiratory condition...
February 17, 2024: CEN Case Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38365671/sars-cov-2-reinfection-with-omicron-variant-in-shaanxi-province-china-december-2022-to-february-2023
#25
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mengyan Zhang, Lei Cao, Luqian Zhang, Xinxin Li, Sa Chen, Yi Zhang
BACKGROUND: Prior to December 2022, there were no reports of reinfection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Shaanxi province, China. Since then, China has refined its strategy in response to coronaviruses. The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 reinfections and its contributing factors, as well as to compare clinical characteristics between first and second episodes of infection in Shaanxi Province, China between December 2022 and February 2023...
February 16, 2024: BMC Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38358174/ease-of-endotracheal-intubation-with-the-conventional-polyvinyl-chloride-endotracheal-tube-versus-wire-reinforced-flexometallic-tube-through-the-intubating-laryngeal-mask-airway-a-comparative-study
#26
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Devaki Kalvapudi, K N Archana, Akshay Hiryur Manjunatha Swamy, Girish Bandigowdanahall Kumararadhya, K G Shivakumar
UNLABELLED: Background The I-LMA ventilates while providing a port for blind insertion of an endotracheal tube. The ILMA Fastrach is used especially for intubating in a difficult airway scenario. Its accompanying endotracheal tube is not economical nor readily available. In comparison, two alternative endotracheal tubes - polyvinyl chloride and wire-reinforced tubes were used for tracheal intubation through the ILMA. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of our study was to compare the ease of intubation when using conventional PVC tubes versus the wire-reinforced flexometallic tubes with the ILMA-FastrachTM...
2024: Annals of African Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38352906/nipah-the-looming-post-covid-pandemic
#27
EDITORIAL
Olivia Sekimoto, Francesco Chiappelli
First identified as a pathogen in Malaysia and Singapore in 1999, Nipah virus (NiV) caused nearly 300 human cases and over 100 fatalities. It also killed about 1 million pigs. Three years later (2002), it was reported in Pteropus bats in Malaysia, in Cambodia & Thailand, (2005), and as far as Madagascar (2007) and Ghana (2008). India (Kerala) reported its first human NiV-caused fatalities in September 2023. Taken together, these trends emphasize its public health threat. In humans, NiV infection initially leads to fever, headache, body aches and muscle pain, nausea and vomiting...
2024: Bioinformation
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38346760/-epstein-barr-virus-associated-gastritis-with-perigastric-lymphadenopathy-accompanied-by-infectious-mononucleosis-a-case-report
#28
REVIEW
Naoko Watanabe, Yoshiro Yamamoto, Ryo Ikegami, Kojiro Kobayashi, Kensuke Yoshimoto, Yuji Nagashima, Jun Kanno, Kazuhisa Yamaguchi, Yoshinori Igarashi, Takahisa Matsuda
A 28-year-old female patient with no particular medical history had a sore throat seven days before admission. Subsequently, she developed malaise, right abdominal pain, and a fever of 38°C and visited our hospital. A blood test revealed a mild inflammatory response and elevated liver enzymes, and she was admitted to the hospital for detailed examination and acute liver injury treatment. Various viral tests and autoantibody measurements revealed elevated Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) immunoglobulin M and negative EB nuclear antigen antibodies...
2024: Nihon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi, the Japanese Journal of Gastro-enterology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38345166/comparative-analysis-of-symptom-profile-and-risk-of-death-associated-with-infection-by-sars-cov-2-and-its-variants-in-hong-kong
#29
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kin On Kwok, Wan In Wei, Edward B Mcneil, Arthur Tang, Julian W-T Tang, Samuel Y S Wong, Eng Kiong Yeoh
The recurrent multiwave nature of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) necessitates updating its symptomatology. We characterize the effect of variants on symptom presentation, identify the symptoms predictive and protective of death, and quantify the effect of vaccination on symptom development. With the COVID-19 cases reported up to August 25, 2022 in Hong Kong, an iterative multitier text-matching algorithm was developed to identify symptoms from free text. Multivariate regression was used to measure associations between variants, symptom development, death, and vaccination status...
February 2024: Journal of Medical Virology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38333463/spontaneous-pneumomediastinum-in-a-middle-aged-female-patient-with-schizophrenia-a-case-report
#30
Takahiko Nagamine
A middle-aged female patient with schizophrenia and osteoporosis presented to the emergency department with complaints of sore throat, neck pain, and dysphagia, which was identified as spontaneous pneumomediastinum (SPM) on chest CT. SPM has been reported in anorexia nervosa, but this is the first report of SPM in schizophrenia. In anorexia nervosa, an increase in intrathoracic pressure because of vomiting can cause positive pressure SPM, but this patient was considered to have negative pressure SPM because of decreased mediastinal pressure...
January 2024: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38332291/-sore-throats-under-scrutiny-a-critical-examination-of-antibiotics-in-tonsillitis-and-pharyngitis
#31
REVIEW
Sarah Draut, Bernhard G Weiss
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
February 2024: MMW Fortschritte der Medizin
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38329364/influenza-like-illness-symptoms-due-to-endemic-human-coronavirus-reinfections-are-not-influenced-by-the-length-of-the-interval-separating-reinfections
#32
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ferdyansyah Sechan, Arthur W D Edridge, Jacqueline van Rijswijk, Maarten F Jebbink, Martin Deijs, Margreet Bakker, Amy Matser, Maria Prins, Lia van der Hoek
After 3 years of its introduction to humans, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been declared as endemic. Little is known about the severity of the disease manifestation that future infections may cause, especially when reinfections occur after humoral immunity from a previous infection or vaccination has waned. Such knowledge could inform policymakers regarding the frequency of vaccination. Reinfections by endemic human coronaviruses (HCoVs) can serve as a model system for SARS-CoV-2 endemicity...
February 8, 2024: Microbiology Spectrum
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38327707/multimodal-prevention-of-emergence-cough-following-nasal-endoscopic-surgery-under-general-anesthesia-a-double-blind-randomized-trial
#33
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jing Xu, Pei Sun, Jia-Hui Ma, Dong-Xin Wang
PURPOSE: Cough during emergence from anesthesia is a common problem and may cause adverse events. Monotherapy faces uncertainty in preventing emergence cough due to individual differences. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of multimodal intervention for preventing emergence cough in patients following nasal endoscopic surgery. METHODS: In this double-blind randomized trial, 150 adult patients undergoing nasal endoscopic surgery were randomly allocated into three groups...
2024: Frontiers in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38323252/tracking-health-beyond-recovery-a-study-on-identifying-post-covid-syndrome-symptoms
#34
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shreyas S Walvekar, Vaishali R Mohite
CONTEXT: The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound global impact, leaving a lasting legacy in the form of post-COVID syndrome. This condition, experienced after recovering from the virus, manifests in symptoms, such as fatigue, cough, shortness of breath, joint pain, and brain fog, highlighting the virus's lingering influence on the human body. AIM: To Identify post-COVID syndrome symptoms among COVID-19 recovered patients from Karad Taluka. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A study involving 228 COVID-19-recovered individuals from a Karad tertiary care hospital used consecutive sampling...
February 2024: Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38322430/a-comparative-study-on-the-general-and-otolaryngological-manifestations-of-covid-19-in-the-hospitalized-population-of-the-telangana-region-during-the-first-and-second-waves
#35
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Uma Pokala, Shilpa Potnuru, Sasikala Kanapalli, Agni Vishnu Sailesh, Naveen P
Introduction  Some common symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are fever, cough, and shortness of breath. But ear, nose, and throat (ENT) manifestations such as loss of smell and taste are also very common. Objectives  To compare the general and otorhinolaryngological manifestations of COVID-19 and to compare the treatments given and mortality rate during its two waves. Methods  This retrospective study was conducted on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) cases in a tertiary care teaching hospital...
January 2024: International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38322097/the-effect-of-topical-benzydamine-hydrochloride-and-cuff-pressure-monitorization-on-postoperative-sore-throat-due-to-intubation
#36
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bilge Olgun Keleş, Menşure Kaya
OBJECTIVE: Postoperative sore throat (POST) is the most common discomfort after endotracheal intubation. Damage to the tracheal mucosa caused by inappropriate endotracheal tube (ETT) cuff pressure has been shown as the major factor. Monitoring the ETT cuff pressure at a certain value reduces this damage. Benzydamine hydrochloride (BH) has proven to be effective on sore throat and studies have shown that it is also effective on POST. In this study, the efficacy of BH and ETT cuff pressure monitoring on POST was evaluated...
February 2024: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38322079/recurrent-hand-foot-and-mouth-disease-in-a-saudi-girl
#37
Lamia Alakrash, Maee Barakeh, Wasan I AlQahtani, Renad K AlKanaan
Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is a viral illness that predominantly affects infants and children, causing blisters and sores on the hands, feet, and mouth. Recurrence is rare, but a case in a six-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia was reported. A six-year-old girl presented with a rash on her palms and soles, which was preceded by a mild sore throat and low-grade fever. She had been in contact with her two-year-old sister, who had similar symptoms but a different rash pattern.  During clinical examination, multiple erythematous deep-seated vesicles and papules were noted on the patient's palms and soles, with no involvement of mucous membranes or nails...
January 2024: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38322054/characteristic-video-laryngeal-endoscopic-pharyngeal-rotation-in-unilateral-pharyngeal-constrictor-muscle-paresis-a-case-of-herpes-zoster-pharyngitis
#38
Megumi Sone, Daisuke Mizokami, Saki Takihata, Akihiro Shiotani, Koji Araki
Herpes zoster pharyngitis (HZP) is a rare condition that should be considered as a differential diagnosis of acute dysphagia secondary to unilateral glossopharyngeal and/or vagal nerve palsy. Although early treatment is important to avoid adverse sequelae, serological diagnosis of varicella zoster virus (VZV) takes over a few days. Therefore, it is important to actively suspect VZV infection based on physical findings. Mucocutaneous lesions, curtain signs, and laryngeal palsy are well-known characteristic physical findings...
January 2024: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38314407/bloody-diarrhea-in-a-27-year-old-man-with-adult-onset-still-s-disease
#39
Ken Nagahata, Kazuyuki Murase, Masatoshi Kanda, Hiroki Takahashi
A 27-year-old man presented with quotidian fever, rash, knee arthralgia, sore throat, and bloody diarrhea. Laboratory findings showed neutrophilia, elevated CRP, ferritin, and liver enzyme levels, and decreased hemoglobin levels. Radiological investigations revealed splenomegaly, systemic lymphadenopathy, thickening of the descending colon wall, and an abnormal uptake in the bone marrow and spleen as seen in F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography. Malignant lymphoma was initially suspected, but biopsies showed no malignant findings...
January 15, 2024: JMA journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38314323/severe-xerostomia-induced-by-multiple-systemic-diseases-in-a-patient-with-psoriasis-vulgaris-a-case-report-and-literature-review
#40
Yessy Novianti, Wahyu Hidayat, Desi Elvhira Rosa
INTRODUCTION: Psoriasis is a complex autoimmune disease associated with chronic systemic keratinization and inflammation, which can affect the skin, joints, and oral cavity. Xerostomia is a subjective feeling of oral dryness that impairs patient comfort and lowers the quality of life. The aim of this case report is to describe the clinical mechanism of xerostomia in a psoriasis patient with multiple systemic diseases. CASE REPORT: A 51-year-old inpatient man with psoriasis vulgaris was referred to the Oral Medicine Department with complaints of difficulty swallowing due to a sore throat and dry tongue since last week...
2024: International Medical Case Reports Journal
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