Publications by authors named "Mason Montano"
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- A case report highlights a 21-year-old healthy man diagnosed with proctitis and epididymitis linked to a cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a condition rarely documented in immunocompetent individuals.
- The patient experienced severe rectal and testicular pain, leading to a hospitalization where tests confirmed acute primary CMV infection.
- This study emphasizes the need for more awareness of CMV as a potential sexually transmitted infection, even in individuals with functioning immune systems.
The following report illustrates a case of a 36-year-old Caucasian male with intravenous drug use (IVDU) induced septic thrombophlebitis presenting with recurrent unilateral pneumothoraces from septic pulmonary embolism (SPE) without the presence of obvious right-sided valvular vegetation in infective endocarditis (IE), defined as tricuspid or pulmonary valve lesions. Pneumothorax (PTX) has been observed as a rare complication of SPE and is commonly associated with infective right-sided IE, IVDU, and intravascular indwelling catheters. However, this case is novel as it is the very rare documented case of recurrent, unilateral, spontaneous right PTX refractory to multiple chest tube placements in such a setting.
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