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Cureus
June 2022
Pulmonary Critical Care, Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center, Sioux Falls, USA.
Foreign body (FB) aspiration can present with acute life-threatening asphyxiation to recurrent infections with lung damage. Although most esophageal FBs pass spontaneously, sharp ones can get embedded requiring treatment. Tracheobronchial FBs and hypopharyngeal FBs are occasionally seen as well.
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March 2022
Department of Medicine, Roger Williams Medical Center, Providence, USA.
Long-term alcohol abuse can cause alcohol-related liver injury (acute alcoholic hepatitis, acute liver failure, hepatic steatosis, fibrosis, or cirrhosis), as well as cardiac injury. Alcoholic cardiomyopathy is a severe consequence of chronic alcohol abuse. Incidence of alcoholic cardiomyopathy ranges from 1-2% of all heavy alcohol users.
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January 2021
Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
Background: Worldwide, pneumonia is the leading cause of death amongst children under five years of age, and accounts for approximately two million deaths annually. Pneumonia can be classified according to the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. Classification includes assessment of certain clinical signs and symptoms, and the severity of the disease.
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December 2002
Division of Neonatology, Saitama Children's Medical Center, Saitama, Japan.
A fatality from a tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) in two extremely low birth weight infants is presented. The sudden onset of intractable respiratory failure accompanied by the absence of chest movement and breathing sounds was observed. The typical clinical symptoms were concealed because the infants required mechanical ventilation and nasogastric feedings.
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