Background: COVID-19 symptom reports describe varying levels of disease severity with differing periods of recovery and symptom trajectories. Thus, there are a multitude of disease and symptom characteristics clinicians must navigate and interpret to guide care.
Objective: To find natural groups of patients with similar constellations of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) symptoms.
The epidemiology and organ-specific sequelae following acute illness due to COVID-19 and prompting patients to seek COVID recovery care are not yet well characterized. This cross-sectional study reviewed data on 200 adult patients with prolonged symptoms of COVID-19 (>14 days after symptom onset) not resolved by usual primary care or specialist care who were referred for COVID-specific follow-up. Most patients sought COVID recovery clinic visits within the first 2 months of initial onset of symptoms (median 37 days), with some seeking care for sequelae persisting up to 10 months (median 82 days).
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July 2018
We present a case of splenic abscess as a probable complication following endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). Based on a literature review, there have been 11 documented cases of splenic injury following ERCP; however, only one of those involved splenic abscess. Proposed mechanisms of injury and abscess are likely a combination of complicating factors, including manipulation of the endoscope in patients with a history of chronic pancreatitis and/or previous abdominal surgeries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of our study was to describe the relationship between office-based provider visits and emergency department (ED) utilization by adult Medicaid beneficiaries. Data were extracted from the publicly-available Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, a nationally representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized population in the United States. The sample included 1,497 respondents who had full year Medicaid coverage in 2009.
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