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Cureus
January 2025
Internal Medicine, Hospital Senhora da Oliveira, Guimarães, PRT.
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease of unknown etiology. Despite primarily affecting the lung, sarcoidosis can affect any organ, resulting in various clinical manifestations. We present a case of a 56-year-old man who developed thoracic pain over several months along with skin lesions.
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December 2024
Department of Internal Medicine, Hiroshima City Funairi Citizens Hospital, Hiroshima, JPN.
Although human metapneumovirus(hMPV) infection can induce severe symptoms in older adults or immunocompromised patients, it usually causes mild symptoms in young immunocompetent adults. The prevalence of hMPV infectious disease is highest during the late winter and early summer. We report a hypoxemic case of hMPV infection in a young immunocompetent man that occurred in the first autumn after the reclassification of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from Class 2 to Class 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 79-year-old man was found to have multiple nodules in the lung fields on chest computed tomography. Metastatic lung cancer was suspected; however, the primary site remained elusive. After 1 year of follow-up, both the nodules had enlarged.
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October 2024
Center for Asbestos-Related Diseases, Toyama Rosai Hospital, Toyama, Japan.
Background: The underlying pathophysiology of some occupational diseases such as silicosis involves autoantibodies. An autoantibody, antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA), has been recently reported and is known to be elevated in diseases such as vasculitis; therefore, the disease is currently known as ANCA-associated vasculitis. The risk of ANCA-associated vasculitis is known to be 25 times higher in patients with silicosis than in those without any occupational disease.
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November 2024
Research and Development Unit, Hammersmith and Fulham Primary Care Network, London, UK.
Background: Auditory hallucinations, commonly associated with psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, can arise as side effects to certain medications. Several drug classes are commonly implicated in the causation of hallucinations, such as anticholinergics. Medication associated with disruption of steroid production may lead to neuropsychiatric disruption.
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