Magnitude, Patterns, and Associated Predictors of Cardiovascular Events in Tetanus: A 2-Year, Single-Center, Ambidirectional Cohort Study Involving 572 Patients.

Background: Cardiovascular events (CEs) remain the leading cause of death in patients with tetanus. We examined the incidence, patterns, and associated predictors of CEs among patients with tetanus in Vietnam.

Methods: An ambidirectional cohort study was conducted on hospitalized adult patients with tetanus at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases between 2019 and 2020.

Magnitude and patterns of severe monoinfection in Vietnam: a 4-year single-center retrospective study.

Introduction: Infection with is a recognized cause of severe malaria including deaths. The exact burden and patterns of severe monoinfections is however still not well quantified, especially in endemic regions. We examined the magnitude and patterns of severe malaria caused by monoinfections of and associated predictors among patients admitted to a tertiary care center for malaria in Vietnam.

Atypical gnathostomiasis-confirmed cutaneous larva migrans, Vietnam.

We reported a case of gnathostomiasis in a 42-year-old woman with an unclear history of eating high-risk foods and had a non-migratory skin lesion, negative serological testing and normal blood eosinophil counts. A diagnosis of gnathostomiasis was based on a live, third-stage larva that was randomly taken from the patient's skin lesion by herself. The presenting case report demonstrates challenges in correctly diagnose cutaneous gnathostomiasis even in endemic countries due to atypical skin lesions, negative serology testing and the absence of eosinophilia and thus, the widely used classic triad of suggestive evidence of gnathostomiasis is not fulfilled.

Predictors of treatment failures of plasmodium falciparum malaria in Vietnam: a 4-year single-centre retrospective study.

Background: Drug-resistant falciparum malaria is an increasing public health burden. This study examined the magnitude of Plasmodium falciparum infection and the patterns and predictors of treatment failure in Vietnam.

Methods: Medical records of all 443 patients with malaria infection admitted to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases between January 2015 and December 2018 were used to extract information on demographics, risk factors, symptoms, laboratory tests, treatment, and outcome.