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Nat Rev Cardiol
January 2025
Cardiothoracic Department, University Hospital Santa Maria della Misericordia, Udine, Italy.
Front Immunol
January 2025
Department of Rheumatology & Allergology, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan.
Patients with A20 haploinsufficiency (HA20) presenting with central nervous system (CNS) symptoms are rare, and available reports are limited. Here, we describe a patient with HA20, previously followed up as Behçet disease, who presented with CNS symptoms in adulthood. A 38-year-old Japanese male who had been followed up for incomplete Behçet disease at another hospital since 28 years of age presented to our hospital with acute-onset diplopia and persistent hiccups that were severe enough to cause vomiting.
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December 2024
Internal Medicine, Hospital Vila Franca de Xira, Vila Franca de Xira, PRT.
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a serious condition often leading to acute heart failure (HF), with diverse etiologies including viral myocarditis. This report details a case of reversible DCM in a 34-year-old male who presented with symptoms of acute HF. Diagnostic workup revealed biventricular dilation with severe systolic dysfunction and serology confirming herpes simplex virus infection.
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January 2025
Innovation Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, 201203, China.
Gout is a systemic metabolic disorder caused by elevated uric acid (UA) levels, affecting over 1% of the population. The most common complication of gout is gouty arthritis (GA), characterized by swelling, pain or tenderness in peripheral joints or bursae, which can lead to the formation of tophi. At present, western medicines like colchicine, febuxostat and allopurinol are the primary treatment strategy to alleviate pain and prevent flare-ups in patients with GA, but they have significant side effects and increased mortality risks.
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January 2025
Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Department, University Hospital "Santa Maria della Misericordia" (ASUFC) Udine, Italy.
Background: Patients with pericarditis may show elevation of C-reactive protein (CRP) and pericardial effusion at presentation. There are limited data on the prognostic implications of this inflammatory phenotype.
Objectives: Aim of the present study is to evaluate the outcome of the inflammatory phenotype in a cohort of patients with acute pericarditis.
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