Publications by authors named "Raj Kumar Bhatta"

We present a child with a clear and classic COVID-19 symptomatic picture that rapidly progressed to sepsis with persistent hypertension. This patient, a five-year-old Hispanic female child was brought to our emergency department on March 21, 2020, with fever, productive cough, shortness of breath with chest tightness, abdominal pain, and diarrhea for a week. Her condition deteriorated rapidly, and she developed sepsis within 24 hours, needing intensive care unit admission and ventilator support.

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Vertebral osteomyelitis is an uncommon variant of osteomyelitis. Although and/or are commonly associated, alternate pathogens have been implicated in vertebral osteomyelitis, especially in endemic areas and/or immunocompromised patients. Here, we present a case of a young African American female with type I diabetes mellitus who presented to us with worsening back pain.

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We present a child with a new-onset isolated afebrile seizure in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This patient, an 11-year-old Hispanic male, was brought to our ED in New York city on May 01, 2020, during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis with seizure. There was no fever and/or respiratory and gastrointestinal complaints.

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