Publications by authors named "Toqeer Khan"
Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Rare Cause of Pachymeningitis and Optic Neuritis.
Eur J Case Rep Intern Med
November 2024
Introduction: Rheumatoid pachymeningitis and optic neuritis are rare complications of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and are a diagnosis of exclusion.
Case Description: A 75-year-old male with a history of seronegative RA presented to the emergency department with left eye pain and blurry vision lasting two days. He had been diagnosed with seronegative RA around nine months previously.
Unilateral pulmonary hypoplasia (UPH) is a rare congenital disorder that presents rarely in adulthood. Most patients succumb to complications at a young age, and those who survive are rare and susceptible to frequent lifelong pulmonary infections. It has a high infant mortality rate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBabesiosis is a potentially life-threatening tick-borne parasitic infection. Severe disease in splenectomized individuals may require exchange transfusion. A 58-year-old male with a history of splenectomy presented with 2 weeks of subjective fever, weakness, and abdominal pain.
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- - Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by venous malformations, with only about 200 reported cases, and is complicated by the risk of infections, as illustrated in a case study involving a 40-year-old female patient.
- - The patient, who also had asthma and bronchiectasis, experienced worsening respiratory symptoms and was found to have cavitary lung lesions, leading to the discovery of non-tuberculous mycobacterium infections.
- - Treatment for these infections is crucial due to their high mortality rate; in this case, it involved multiple antibiotics and ultimately a lung resection, marking the first report of such an infection in a patient with blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome. *
BACKGROUND Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). While bone marrow (BM) involvement is common in lymphoma, primary bone marrow (PBM) DLBCL is extremely rare. We present a case of PBM DLBCL discovered in a patient with COVID-19.
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