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Turk J Pediatr
October 2024
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Disease, Department of Pediatrics, Medical School of Ege University, İzmir, Türkiye.
Background: Cryptococcus neoformans causes cryptococcosis, primarily affecting immunocompromised individuals, including solid-organ transplant recipients, and, less frequently, immunocompetent people.
Case: A 15-year-old male with congenital hepatic fibrosis, portal hypertension, and cirrhosis underwent orthotopic liver transplantation. He received perioperative antimicrobial and antifungal prophylaxis and continued immunosuppressive treatment.
Eur J Case Rep Intern Med
January 2024
Department of General Medicine, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan.
Unlabelled: Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD), also called histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis, is more common in young women and typically presents with small, painful, localized cervical lymphadenopathy that resolves spontaneously within a few weeks. Laboratory findings are variable. As many as 40% of KFD cases are reported to be painless, and up to 22% to be generalized lymphadenopathy.
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June 2023
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Department, Core Laboratory, Biomedical Diagnostic Centre, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain.
Kimura disease (KD) is an unusual inflammatory disease of unknown etiology. Despite being described many years ago, KD might cause diagnostic difficulty or be confused with other conditions. Here, we present a 33-year-old Filipino woman who was referred to our hospital for evaluation of persistent eosinophilia and intense pruritus.
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June 2023
Department of Internal Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via F. Sforza 35, 20122, Milan, Italy.
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old man presented with fever, thoracalgia, weight loss, diffuse lymphadenopathy, and a massive pleural effusion. Extensive laboratory and radiologic investigations for possible autoimmune, infectious, hematologic, and neoplastic conditions all resulted negative. A lymph node biopsy showed a granulomatous necrotizing lymphadenitis, suspicious for tuberculosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Case Rep
August 2022
Division of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms (ZBS 2), Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch Institute, Seestr. 10, 13353, Berlin, Germany.
Background: The diagnosis of tularemia is not often considered in Germany as the disease is still rare in this country. Nonetheless, Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia, can infect numerous animal species and should, therefore, not be neglected as a dangerous pathogen. Tularemia can lead to massively swollen lymph nodes and might even be fatal without antibiotic treatment.
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