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Cureus
December 2024
ENT, York Teaching Hospital, York, GBR.
Accidental ingestion of foreign bodies frequently necessitates emergency department visits, with many cases requiring surgical consultation. Although most ingested items pass through the gastrointestinal tract uneventfully, orthodontic components, such as wires, present a specific risk due to their shape and material properties. This report describes a rare case of a 13-year-old male adolescent whose initial presentation suggested ingestion of a chicken bone.
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November 2024
Department of Medicine, Mercyhealth Graduate Medical Education (GME) Consortium, Rockford, USA.
Thrombotic microangiopathies (TMA) are a group of conditions that present with varying degrees of microthrombi, thrombocytopenia, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, renal dysfunction, and neurological impairment. Etiologies can be primary, such as thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), and atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), or secondary, such as due to systemic infections, malignancies, immune-mediated conditions, and hypertensive emergencies. In hypertensive emergencies, this presentation can occur from mechanical stress placed on red blood cells as they pass through narrowed arteries due to edema and microangiopathic changes within the vessels themselves.
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January 2025
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York (J.S.G).
JAMA Health Forum
November 2024
School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
Health Serv Res
October 2024
Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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