Steroid-induced Strongyloidiasis with Cholestasis Post-COVID-19 Pneumonia.

The use of immunosuppressive agents has recently been raised during the COVID-19 pandemic to manage the COVID-19-induced systemic inflammatory response and improve mortality. This widespread use of steroids and other immunomodulators for severe COVID-19 diseases might pose a potential risk of reactivation of latent diseases and the emergence of opportunistic infections such as strongyloidiasis. We report a case of strongyloidiasis with cholestasis in a middle-aged man; who was otherwise healthy and had no history of recent travel, developed three weeks after a prolonged course of steroids for the management of severe COVID-19 pneumonia.

Hypermagnesemia in Clinical Practice.

Hypermagnesemia is a relatively uncommon but potentially life-threatening electrolyte disturbance characterized by elevated magnesium concentrations in the blood. Magnesium is a crucial mineral involved in various physiological functions, such as neuromuscular conduction, cardiac excitability, vasomotor tone, insulin metabolism, and muscular contraction. Hypomagnesemia is a prevalent electrolyte disturbance that can lead to several neuromuscular, cardiac, or nervous system disorders.

A 59-Year-Old Woman with Extensive Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Thromboembolism 7 Days Following a First Dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine.

BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing cause of the current global healthcare crisis. Several vaccines were approved for use by emergency vaccination campaigns worldwide. At present, there are very few reports of COVID-19 vaccine-induced immune-thrombotic thrombocytopenia, a variant of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT), in comparison to the massive number of vaccinated people worldwide.

Hypercalcaemia: A portent of sarcoidosis in cystic fibrosis.

The coexistence of cystic fibrosis (CF) and sarcoidosis is rare. We report a 22-year-old male cystic fibrosis patient who presented multiple times to the Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman, in 2013. He was diagnosed with non-parathyroid-related hypercalcaemia and anterior uveitis, while computed tomography revealed mediastinal and abdominal lymphadenopathy and mild hepatosplenomegaly.