Successful Resuscitation of a Young Girl Who Drank Rivastigmine With Respiratory Failure.

Rivastigmine is a non-competitive reversible inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase which is approved as one of the fi rst-line treatment options for Alzheimer's disease. We present the case of a 33-year-old woman with acute cholinergic syndrome secondary to deliberate rivastigmine poisoning. The patient presented at the emergency department (ED) with drowsy consciousness, dizziness, vomiting, diarrhea, sweating, and hypertension (171/103 mmHg).

Emphysematous Pancreatitis in the Elderly.

Background: Emphysematous pancreatitis (EP) is an unusual medical emergency that presents with intraparenchymal pancreatic air in the setting of necrotizing infection. We aimed to determine the differences in the epidemiology, etiology, clinical presentation, symptoms and outcome of EP between elderly and nonelderly patients.

Materials And Methods: A PubMed search was performed using the keywords "emphysematous pancreatitis," "gas-forming pancreatitis" and "pancreatitis and pneumoperitoneum" from March 1959 to February 2019.

Risk factors for mortality in emphysematous pancreatitis.

To investigate the difference in the characteristics between patients with emphysematous pancreatitis (EP) who survived and those who died. PubMed search was performed to gather EP cases from March 1959 to February 2019. Forty-two articles with 58 EP cases were identified and met the study's inclusion criteria.

Herb induced liver injury after using herbal medicine: A systemic review and case-control study.

In Taiwan, traditional herbal medication was included in Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) system since 1996 and in 9 out of 10 hospitals have developed their own departments of traditional medicine. This study aims to address the herb-induced liver injury (HILI) after using herbal medicine on the relationship between age, gender, epidemiology, laboratory data, pathogenesis, mobility, and mortality.We searched the PubMed database with "hepatitis after herbal medicine" and "in human" till 2018 April and returned 163 articles in a systemic review manner.

Risk factors of mortality in patients with purple urine bag syndrome.

Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is rarely seen in clinical practice. Several studies have reported that PUBS is relatively benign in its clinical course, but this study aimed to identify risk factors for mortality related to PUBS. In a PubMed search from October 1980 to August 2016, using the search term "Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS)", 106 articles (n = 174 cases) were identified.

Trends in the epidemiology of purple urine bag syndrome: A systematic review.

Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) is rarely observed in clinical practice. The present study aimed to identify the epidemiological trends in PUBS in recent decades. A search of PubMed articles published between 1980 October and 2016 August was conducted, in which 106 articles (174 cases) described PUBS.

Quantitative detection and identification of Naegleria spp. in various environmental water samples using real-time quantitative PCR assay.

Naegleria spp. is a free-living amoeba that can be found in various aquatic environments. There are some Naegleria spp.