Clinical diagnosis of fat embolism syndrome with septic shock following polytrauma: a case report.

Introduction And Importance: Fat embolism syndrome (FES) arises from the systemic effects of fat emboli in microcirculation. While sepsis is characterized by pathological, physiological, and metabolic abnormalities caused by infection. Septic shock is identified by elevated blood lactate (>2 mmol/l) and the need for vasopressors to maintain a mean arterial pressure of 65 mmHg or higher in the absence of hypovolemia.

Unilateral lateral rectus palsy following dengue: a case report.

Introduction And Importance: Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne viral infection presenting with high-grade fever and other constitutional symptoms.

Case Presentation: This case report details a rare occurrence of lateral rectus palsy in an 18-year-old male subsequent to dengue infection. The patient initially presented with fever, a generalized tonic-clonic seizure (GTCS), and symptomatic hypoglycemia, leading to multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) necessitating intensive care.

Epidermal growth factor receptor positive lung cancer: The nontrial scenario.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to report the median overall survival (OS) in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation-positive patients who were managed out of a clinical trial.

Methods: Nonsmall cell lung cancer patients harboring activating EGFR mutations who were either ineligible or refused participation in a clinical trial were selected for this analysis. The reason for not participating in trial, staging, treatment, and outcome details were obtained from a prospective lung cancer database.

[Neurologic diseases in a rural tropical area: experience at a primary health care center in the Boeny region of Madagascar].

There is, to our knowledge, no study reporting the demand for health care related to neurological diseases in rural tropical areas of developing countries. Neurology is nonetheless more or less closely related to the priority health issues in these countries. Over a 6-week period, 626 patients were seen at the primary health center in the town of Madirovalo, Madagascar.

[Left mesiotemporal lesions and anterograde memory impairement: a case of neurosyphilis].

Introduction: Neurosyphilis has become uncommun in the developed countries.

Observation: We report a case of neurosyphilis with limbic presentation, left mesiotemporal lesions on MRI and severe anterograde amnesia.

Discussion: Pathogeneses of MRI findings are unknown.