Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura and Ganglionic Tuberculosis: An Unlikely Link.

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading infectious causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Either in its pulmonary (PTB) or extrapulmonary forms (EPTB), TB has a wide variety of manifestations, including hematological ones like thrombocytosis (especially in PTB) and thrombocytopenia (mainly with disseminated or miliary TB). Hematological manifestations are infrequently presenting features of TB, and within them, immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)-associated TB is one of the rarest presenting features.

Syphilitic Stomatitis: Raising Awareness on an Often-Overlooked Presentation of Secondary Syphilis.

Unlabelled: Syphilis, a disease caused by the bacteria , has a multitude of clinical manifestations and is classified into primary syphilis, secondary syphilis and tertiary syphilis, based on clinical presentations and the time elapsed since the primary infection. The secondary stage of the disease can affect multiple organs and systems, and some of these involvements may be general and non-specific, justifying its name as 'the great imitator'. We present a case of a 30-year-old woman with a history of painful neck lymph nodes with progressive enlargement, persistent headache, weight loss, myalgia and alopecia.

Predictors of Long-COVID-19 and its Impact on Quality of Life: Longitudinal Analysis at 3, 6 and 9 Months after Discharge from a Portuguese Centre.

Introduction: Long-COVID-19 impacts health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) but data is scarce. The aim of this study was to describe and prospectively assess the prevalence and risk factors for long-COVID-19 after hospital discharge, and to evaluate its impact on patient HR-QoL.

Material And Methods: Single-centre longitudinal study including all COVID-19 patients discharged between December 2020 and February 2021.

Humoral Immune Response of SARS-CoV-2-Infected Patients with Cancer: Influencing Factors and Mechanisms.

Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-infected patients with cancer show worse outcomes compared with patients without cancer. The humoral immune response (HIR) of patients with cancer against SARS-CoV-2 is not well characterized. To better understand it, we conducted a serological study of hospitalized patients with cancer infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Controversies about the cardiovascular effects of OM3FA. Did inappropriate placebos skew clinical trial results?

Several observational studies suggest that greasy fish may reduce cardiovascular risk, whose benefits have been attributed to the presence Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (OM3FA). However, there are some randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that have shown contradictory results concerning the cardiovascular benefits of OM3FA. Analyzing these RCTs we found that the use of olive oil in some RCTs could be responsible for contradictory results, since both.