Publications by authors named "Behnoush Heidari"
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- A grown man from Persia had stomach pain and weakness, along with chest pain that happened two months earlier.
- Doctors found some unusual signs in his body, like swelling in his belly and some fluid, but tests for tuberculosis (TB) came back negative.
- Eventually, a special test on his belly showed he had TB in both the belly and chest, which can be hard to notice, especially in poorer countries.
We report co-occurrence of emphysematous cystitis and emphysematous pyelonephritis (EC/EPN) in a 64-year-old female with poor-controlled diabetes mellitus (DM) that presented with flank pain, fever, and hematuria that turned out to have a bilateral extrarenal pelvis. On examination, she was feverish, and the costovertebral angle was tender. By considering herhemoglobin A1C, her DM was out of control.
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