Valacyclovir as Etiology for Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms: A Case Report.

Background: Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) is a potentially life-threatening condition associated with variable clinical presentations including rash, fevers, eosinophilia, and visceral organ involvement. It is a hypersensitivity reaction, and most cases have an identifiable inciting factor of drug exposure.

Case Presentation: We present an interesting case of DRESS syndrome in a 97-year-old patient after she was treated with valacyclovir for herpes zoster.

Mycobacterium avium complex: An unusual cause of hypercalcemia.

Mycobacterium avium-complex (MAC) is an infectious granulomatous disease which is associated with hypercalcemia especially in immunocompromised patients. We present an unusual case of MAC infection in an immunocompetent patient presenting as hypercalcemia.A 76-year-old immunocompetent male was admitted for hypercalcemia of 12.

Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 among community members presenting for testing in Peoria, Illinois from 21 April to 15 May 2020.

Expanding easily accessible community SARS-CoV-2 screening is essential in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this report, we describe the findings from the initial 25 days of a SARS-CoV-2 drive-up and walk-up testing initiative was organized in Peoria, Illinois. Eighty-seven out of 4,073 individuals (2.

Polyarteritis Nodosa: an unusual case of paraneoplastic process in renal cell carcinoma.

Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN) is a small and medium vessel necrotizing vasculitis that can affect any system in the human body. Rarely, PAN can be the primary manifestation of an underlying malignancy. The association between malignancy and vasculitis is an ongoing topic of research.

A Case of Evans Syndrome with Acute Hemolysis and Hemoglobin Cast Nephropathy.

BACKGROUND Evans syndrome is characterized by 'warm' autoimmune hemolytic anemia and autoimmune thrombocytopenia, and is more common in the pediatric population than in adults. Evans syndrome is often associated with underlying autoimmune disease, connective tissue disease, immune deficiency disorders, lymphoproliferative disorders, or malignancy of the immune system. A case is presented of acute kidney injury due to hemoglobin cast nephropathy in an adult man with Evans syndrome.

Peroral cholangioscopy with cholangioscopy-directed biopsies in the diagnosis of biliary malignancies: a systemic review and meta-analysis.

Background And Aim: Accurate diagnosis is essential in the appropriate management of biliary strictures. Our aim is to evaluate the efficacy of cholangioscopy-directed biopsies in differentiating biliary intraductal malignancies from benign lesions.

Materials And Methods: Articles were searched in Medline, PubMed, and Ovid journals.

On the contribution of overt tactile expectations to visuo-tactile interactions within the peripersonal space.

Since the discovery of neural regions in the monkey brain that respond preferentially to multisensory stimuli presented in proximal space, researchers have been studying this specialised spatial representation in humans. It has been demonstrated that approaching auditory or visual stimuli modulate tactile processing, while they are within the peripersonal space (PPS). The aim of the current study is to investigate the additional effects of tactile expectation on the PPS-related multisensory interactions.

Cryptococcemia in an HIV-negative patient with decompensated liver cirrhosis.

Background: Cryptococcal infections have been mostly associated with immunocompromised individuals, 80-90% of whom have been HIV-positive patients. Increasingly, cryptococcal infections are being reported in cirrhotic patients who are HIV-negative. The underlying immunologic defects in cirrhotic patients seem to play an important role in predisposing them to cryptococcosis and affecting their morbidity and mortality.

Location estimation of approaching objects is modulated by the observer's inherent and momentary action capabilities.

Action capability may be one of the factors that can influence our percept of the world. A distinction can be made between momentary action capability (action capability at that particular moment) and inherent action capability (representing a stable action capability). In the current study, we investigated whether there was a biasing effect of these two forms of action capability on visual perception of location.

Association of clinical signs and symptoms of Ebola viral disease with case fatality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a public health emergency of international concern. There is limited laboratory and clinical data available on patients with EVD. This is a meta-analysis to assess the utility of clinical signs, symptoms, and laboratory data in predicting mortality in EVD.

Success of endoscopic ultrasound-guided ethanol ablation of pancreatic cysts: a meta-analysis and systematic review.

Background: Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided ethanol ablation has emerged as an efficacious and safe alternative management option for pancreatic cysts. We undertook a meta-analysis and systematic review to assess the overall safety and efficacy of EUS-guided ethanol ablation of pancreatic cysts.

Method Study Selection Criteria: EUS-guided ethanol ablation of pancreatic cysts.

Visuo-tactile interactions are dependent on the predictive value of the visual stimulus.

In this study we aimed to explore the predictive link between visual stimuli moving towards the body and the tactile consequences that follow. More specifically, we tested if information derived from an approaching visual stimulus in the region directly surrounding the body (the peripersonal space) could be used to make judgments about the location and time of impending tactile contact. We used moving arm stimuli, displayed on a computer screen, which appeared to travel either towards the face (middle of the left/right cheek) or slightly away from the subject's face.

Histoplasmosis presenting as granulomatous hepatitis: case report and review of the literature.

Background. Histoplasma capsulatum is the most common endemic mycosis in the United States and is a frequent cause of opportunistic infection in immunodeficient hosts. Histoplasmosis is most often self-limiting and goes unrecognized in the immunocompetent population but can progress to disseminated histoplasmosis in patients with an impaired immune system.

Bordetella bronchiseptica in the immunosuppressed population - a case series and review.

Organisms that are not known to cause serious infection in the immunocompetent population can, in fact, cause devastating illness in immunosuppressed neutropenic populations especially those who are undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), and solid organ transplantation or a history of malignancy. One organism of interest isolated from immunosuppressed patients at our institution was Bordetella bronchiseptica. It is known to cause respiratory tract disease in the animal population which includes dogs, cats, and rabbits.

Restricted attentional capacity within but not between sensory modalities: an individual differences approach.

Background: Most people show a remarkable deficit to report the second of two targets when presented in close temporal succession, reflecting an attentional blink (AB). An aspect of the AB that is often ignored is that there are large individual differences in the magnitude of the effect. Here we exploit these individual differences to address a long-standing question: does attention to a visual target come at a cost for attention to an auditory target (and vice versa)? More specifically, the goal of the current study was to investigate a) whether individuals with a large within-modality AB also show a large cross-modal AB, and b) whether individual differences in AB magnitude within different modalities correlate or are completely separate.