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J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc
January 2025
Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA.
Background: Studies of pediatric osteoarticular infections (OAIs) mostly focus on acute hematogenous osteomyelitis (AHO) and acute bacterial arthritis (ABA). A comprehensive descriptive analysis of pediatric OAIs, including subacute, chronic, and non-hematogenous types, is lacking.
Methods: A detailed analysis of all pediatric OAIs was undertaken at two academic centers, Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence, RI, and Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH.
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December 2024
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Ogaki Municipal Hospital, Ogaki, JPN.
Septic arthritis of the sternoclavicular joint is a rare infectious arthritis in which the risk factors are reported to be such as diabetes, immunosuppression, and intravenous drug use. Due to a lack of prominent symptoms, delayed diagnosis can lead to severe complications such as mediastinitis and empyema. Advanced sternoclavicular septic arthritis can be a hidden etiology masked by severe symptoms.
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January 2025
Department of Surgery, Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA.
Immunology advances have increased our understanding of autoimmune, auto-inflammatory, immunodeficiency, infectious, and other immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs). Furthermore, evidence is growing for the immune involvement in aging, metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases, and different cancers. However, further research has indicated sex/gender-based immune differences, which further increase higher incidences of various autoimmune diseases (AIDs), such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), myasthenia gravis, and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in females.
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January 2025
Discipline of Clinical Laboratory and Food Safety, Faculty of Pharmacy, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 6 Traian Vuia Street, 020945 Bucharest, Romania.
Immunoglobulin A (IgA) vasculitis (IgAV), classically known as Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP), is a type of nonthrombocytopenic small-vessel vasculitis. HSP is the most frequent kind of systemic vasculitis in children, characterized by purpura, arthritis or arthralgia, gastrointestinal pain, and kidney dysfunction. The aim of our research was to investigate and observe the clinical characteristics of children diagnosed with HSP and to explore the correlation between infectious diseases and HSP.
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December 2024
Department of General Internal Medicine, Uonuma Kikan Hospital, Minamiuonuma, Niigata 949-7302, Japan.
Scrub typhus (tsutsugamushi disease) is an acute febrile illness caused by , often found in Asia and Oceania. The presence of an eschar, characterized by a crust, is a key diagnostic finding. Many symptoms of this disease are already known, however reactive arthritis following scrub typhus is very rare.
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