Anticoagulation Management and Outcomes in Patients With Covid-19 With Propensity Score Matching: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study.

Background: Therapeutic doses of anticoagulation have been administered to patients with coronavirus-19 disease (Covid-19) without thromboembolism, although there is a lack of robust evidence supporting this practice.

Study Question: To compare outcomes between patients admitted to the hospital for Covid-19 who received full-dose anticoagulation purely for the indication of Covid-19 and patients who received prophylactic doses of anticoagulation.

Study Design: This is a multicenter retrospective cohort study, including 7 community hospitals in Michigan.

Ciliated respiratory epithelium encapsulating brain abscess due to prior trauma.

Bacterial brain abscesses are typically spread through a haematogenous route. Open head wounds and neurosurgical interventions are uncommon aetiologies. Ectopic tissue found in the cerebral cortex is usually ascribed almost entirely from carcinomas.

When Do Ring-Enhancing Brain Lesions Need to Be Biopsied, and Should They Be Treated Empirically First?

Unlabelled: Other than acute cerebrovascular accidents, multiple ring-enhancing lesions are among the most common lesions encountered in neuroimaging. We herein describe the case of a 63-year-old diabetic man presenting with altered mental status, hyperglycaemia and community-acquired pneumonia who was found to have two ring-enhancing lesions involving the left frontal lobe and left basal ganglia. The lesions were biopsied to reveal positive fungal cultures and toxoplasma cysts.

Unusual Manifestations of Acute Cytomegalovirus Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Hosts: A Report of Two Cases.

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised hosts. Tissue-invasive CMV disease causing ulcerative skin disease or esophageal necrosis is rare. We herein describe two cases: a 47-year-old renal and pancreas transplant recipient who presented with skin ulcerations on his elbow and a 50-year-old renal transplant recipient who presented with acute esophageal necrosis.