Gait variability predicts real-life falls in high-functioning stroke survivors.

Background: While over 60 % of adults with stroke fall each year, the risk is greatest in high-functioning individuals with mild motor impairments and greater physical mobility. We lack sensitive predictors of falls in this population. Therefore, our study aimed to determine the relative contribution of gait variability and widely used tests of balance and mobility in predicting real-life falls in high-functioning adults with stroke.

pulmonary infection in a patient with late-onset combined immunodeficiency: a case report with literature review.

Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most common humoral immune deficiency in adults, characterized by recurrent sinopulmonary bacterial infections. Invasive fungal infections are rarely associated with CVID. Late-onset combined immunodeficiency (LOCID) is a recently recognized variant of CVID with low CD4 counts and immunoglobulins deficiency.

Pulmonary Tuberculosis Presenting As Septic Shock in an Immunocompetent Patient: Revisiting an Old Disease With New Perspectives.

Septic shock due to in immunocompromised patients (particularly HIV) is a well-recognized clinical entity. However, tubercular sepsis in the immunocompetent is still underdiagnosed and under-discussed. Moreover, sepsis is usually associated with gram-negative and other gram-positive microorganisms that can cause similar pulmonary and disseminated disease and can further convolute the diagnosis.