Infectious spondylodiscitis is a rare disease and typically presents with an insidious progression characterized by spinal pain that usually starts gradually and progressively worsens over several weeks to months. It occurs through three main mechanisms: direct contamination in cases of trauma or surgery, hematogenous dissemination, or through contiguity. We report the case of a 63-year-old male, admitted due to a history of dorsolumbar pain after falling from a height of 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMaturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) is a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by autosomal dominant monogenic non-ketogenic diabetes mellitus, usually with early-onset, with a prevalence of 1-5% of all diabetes cases. A 72-year-old female was admitted with intestinal occlusion, anorexia, vomiting, and weight loss for four months. Medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic pancreatitis with abnormal pancreatic development, and acute obstructive jaundice due to a mass in the head of the pancreas with duodenum extension four months before.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: COVID-19 is the clinical expression of the highly contagious severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral infection. Most patients have mild symptoms, but a significant proportion have severe or critical disease, which can include cardiac injury, sepsis, acute kidney failure and respiratory failure. It is also worth highlighting the increasing number of reported COVID-19 cases with dermatological disease/manifestations.
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