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Digit J Ophthalmol
December 2024
Advanced Eye Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
We report the case of a 60-year-old man diagnosed with unilateral, solitary, extramedullary plasmacytoma located in the right lacrimal sac fossa, with no systemic involvement. This rare plasma cell dyscrasia is usually found in the respiratory tract. Clinical and radiological features of the mass and histopathological results are described.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction Parenteral heparin is widely used as bridging therapy while optimising oral anticoagulation(OAC). Newer Direct-Acting OACs(DOACs) attain therapeutic effect very quickly. We report the use of dabigatran as bridging therapy during warfarin optimization for cardioembolic stroke in two patients who opted to receive warfarin for long-term anticoagulation for secondary stroke prevention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRationale: Paraneoplastic Cushing syndrome (PCS) is an adverse prognostic factor for small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients. Retrospective studies have shown that the median survival of SCLC complicated with PCS was <7 months. No immunochemotherapy has been recorded in the treatment of SCLC with PCS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJBJS Case Connect
October 2024
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, St. Luke's University Hospital, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Case: A 60-year-old man presented with a chronic right pectoralis major muscle belly tear of the lower sternal head that was missed and previously treated with tendon repair of the sternal and clavicular heads. The tear was repaired and reconstructed with an Achilles allograft. At the 1.
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December 2024
Department of Cardiology, Tsuyama Chuo Hospital, 1756 Kawasaki, Tsuyama, Okayama 708-0841, Japan.
Background: Brugada phenocopy (BrP) is a condition that induces reversible Brugada-like electrocardiographic (ECG) changes in patients without true Brugada syndrome. We present two cases of fulminant eosinophilic myocarditis that showed Type 1 Brugada ECG changes in the early phase of the clinical course.
Case Summary: Case 1 was a 76-year-old man who developed fulminant eosinophilic myocarditis with ventricular tachycardia while hospitalized for heart failure.
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