Publications by authors named "Valentina Ilievski"
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- - A 24-year-old patient from Cameroon came to the hospital with a foreign object in her left eye.
- - Fluorescent microscopy was used to find moving microfilariae, confirming a diagnosis of loiasis for the first time.
- - Even though she had high levels of microfilariae, eosinophilia (an increase in a type of white blood cell) only appeared after starting antiparasitic treatment.
There is still an ongoing debate whether a transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) approach for prostate biopsies is associated with higher (infectious) complications rates compared to transperineal biopsies. This is especially of great interests in settings with elevated frequencies of multidrug resistant organisms (MDRO). Between 01/2018 and 05/2019 230 patients underwent a TRUS-guided prostate biopsy at the department of Urology at University Hospital Frankfurt.
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