Purulent Pericarditis and Mycotic Pseudoaneurysm of the Ascending Aorta: A Case Report.

Concomitant presentation of purulent pericarditis and mycotic pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta is exceedingly uncommon. We present a case of a 63-year-old male who presented to the emergency department after one week of severe neck pain along with pleuritic chest pain. He was found to have purulent pericarditis associated with a 0.

Iatrogenic Hypermagnesemia in a Patient With Preeclampsia Caused by Misinterpretation of the Magnesium Reporting Unit Following Magnesium Sulfate Administration.

Because of the lack of standardization, different laboratories report plasma magnesium sulfate or magnesium level in different units, leading to errors in diagnosis and case management; especially when a patient's workup was done in a hospital and then transferred to another hospital. Failure to recognize or understand the reporting units can confuse clinicians and healthcare workers, leading to erroneous interpretations and, consequently, to misdiagnosis of hypermagnesemia or hypomagnesemia. In this report, we present a 32-year-old female patient at 31 weeks of gestation with a history of a multi-substance use disorder who was transferred to the hospital after taking 2.

Correction: Iatrogenic Hypermagnesemia in a Patient With Preeclampsia Caused by Misinterpretation of the Magnesium Reporting Unit Following Magnesium Sulfate Administration.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.7759/cureus.32446.

Literature Review Concerning the Challenges of Implementing Pharmacogenetics in Primary Care Practice.

Since President Obama signed the Precision Medicine Initiative in 2015, endeavors to integrate pharmacogenetics in clinical practice and psychiatric care have been evolving rapidly. The nature of general practice and psychiatric medicine, including psychopharmacotherapy and the long-term care necessary for chronic diseases, renders these fields in desperate need of the implementation of pharmacogenetics. This article presents some of the challenges facing pharmacogenetics implementation in family medicine and psychiatric care.