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Clin Case Rep
January 2025
Department of Rheumatology, Institute of Medicine Tribhuvan University Maharajgunj Kathmandu Nepal.
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), is a fatal systemic hyperinflammatory syndrome. HLH may be due to immunosuppression, infections, cancer, or autoimmune diseases with fever and cytopenia. HLH which occurs in adult-onset Stills disease (AOSD) is called secondary HLH, also known as macrophage activation syndrome (MAS).
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January 2025
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Hazrat-e Rasool General Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Dengue virus (DENV) poses a considerable threat to public health on a global scale, since about two-thirds of the world's population is currently at risk of contracting this arbovirus. Being transmitted by mosquitoes, this virus is associated with a range of illnesses and a small percentage of infected individuals might suffer from severe vascular leakage. This leakage leads to hypovolemic shock syndrome, generally known as dengue shock syndrome, organ failure, and bleeding complications.
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December 2024
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, JPN.
Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a rare dermatosis characterised by necrotic ulcers with a predilection mainly for the lower legs. We report a case of a 67-year-old man with PG and severe ankle ankylosis complicated by rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with anti-tumor necrosis factor, adalimumab (ADA). He was referred to our hospital because his right ankle showed severe ulcers and blackening.
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January 2025
NH Skin Cancer Surgery, LLC, Derry, NH.
Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a rare, often idiopathic, noninfectious inflammatory neutrophilic dermatitis that causes painful ulcerative cutaneous papillomatous lesions. PG often mimics surgical infection, wound dehiscence, and postoperative cellulitis, leading to high rates of misdiagnosis and mistreatment. Here, a healthy 17-year-old adolescent girl with congenital breast asymmetry, macromastia, and a history of only mild intermittent autoimmune conditions developed an open wound along her inferior left breast incision 2 weeks after reduction mammoplasty.
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December 2024
Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
An 85-year-old woman with a history of total knee replacements for osteoarthritis in the past, presented with left knee swelling and pain that persisted for 14 months. An initial diagnosis of synovial cyst was made, and she underwent multiple aspirations and symptomatic treatments without improvement. Repeat arthrocentesis showed a WBC of 56,000/μL with 61 % neutrophils and 34 % lymphocytes.
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