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January 2025
Department of General Surgery, San Benedetto del Tronto Hospital, AST Ascoli Piceno, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy.
Groove pancreatitis (GP) is a chronic segmental pancreatitis which leads to altered pancreatic secretions and pancreatitis. The exact pathogenesis of GP has not been clearly identified to date but heavy smoking and chronic alcohol consumption seem to be the main factors involved. The resulting chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a debilitating disease causing abdominal pain often refractory to medical therapy, so much that the main indication for surgical treatment is intractable abdominal pain.
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January 2025
Children's Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Congenital diarrhea and enteropathies (CODEs) are a rare heterogeneous group of inherited disorders that typically present with severe chronic diarrhea during the first weeks of life. As a broad range of illnesses can present similarly in infants, establishing a definitive cause for CODEs is challenging. In this report, two infants were suspected to have CODE, with neonatal-onset chronic diarrhea and protein-losing enteropathy finally found to be due to intestinal malrotation and chronic midgut volvulus.
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January 2025
Department of Breast Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Ishinomaki Hospital, Ishinomaki, JPN.
We present a case of a 46-year-old woman with recurrent breast abscess resistant to conventional treatments. Initial diagnosis of mastitis led to antibiotic therapy; however, abscess formation recurred. Subsequent interventions, including incision, drainage, and various antibiotics, were insufficient because of recurrent infections.
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June 2024
Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Parvovirus B19 is a common human infection worldwide and is typically self-limiting in healthy persons but immunocompromised patients require specific treatments. Pretransplant B19 screening doesn't seem to be important or have any impact on the transplantation process but cytomegalovirus (CMV) study is crucial. We present a kidney-transplanted child infected by parvovirus B19 and cytomegalovirus presented with intractable anemia and raised creatinine.
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January 2025
Department of Pediatrics, Hiroshima City Funairi Citizens Hospital.
The patient was a 21-year-old female. She had frequently had status seizures when she had a fever or while taking a bath since she was 6 months old. At 1 year and 8 months old, she developed epilepsy.
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