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Cureus
November 2024
Internal Medicine, Corewell Health, Royal Oak, USA.
Leptospirosis, an infection caused by the spirochete Leptospira and commonly attributed to the underdeveloped world, is frequently under-diagnosed in the United States. This report discusses the case of a 79-year-old male with no significant medical history who presented to the ED with recurrent falls. Initial laboratory results demonstrated severe acute kidney injury, hyperbilirubinemia, and thrombocytopenia.
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December 2024
Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Background: Ectopic pregnancy, occurring outside the uterine cavity, poses a significant health risk, with Fallopian tube involvement being predominant. Recurrent ectopic pregnancy, particularly in the ipsilateral remnant of a previously removed tube, is a rare and poorly understood phenomenon. Here, we present a case of recurrent ectopic pregnancy occurring in the distal remnant of the right fallopian tube following ipsilateral incomplete salpingectomy in a 22-year-old woman.
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November 2024
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kurume University, Kurume, JPN.
The outcomes of cardiac surgery in patients with hematologic disorders are significantly worse. However, details of the clinical course of each hematologic disease remain unclear. Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) presents with progressive pancytopenia that has the risk of infection, hemorrhage, and transformation to acute myelogenous leukemia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study aimed to determine the frequency of RUNX1/RUNX1T1 gene rearrangement in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and analyze their clinical, hematological, and morphological features of positive patients.
Patients And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in which newly diagnosed patients with AML were included in the study. A total of 101 AML cases were calculated from the World Health Organization (WHO) formula.
Oxf Med Case Reports
December 2024
Manchester Heart Centre, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL, United Kingdom.
We report a case of non-ST elevation myocardial infarction in a 36-year-old man with Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD). Multimodality assessment revealed acute coronary thrombus with simultaneous recurrent pulmonary embolism in spite of compliance with a direct oral anticoagulant. Prior case reports of acute myocardial infarction in this population have not outlined the role of catheter based intravascular assessment and treatment in this rare clinical entity.
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