A Case Report of a Pregnancy Complicated by Sigmoid Volvulus in the Extreme Preterm Gestational Age by Naghmeh Kian, Atefeh Moridi

“…ABSTRACT Intestinal obstruction is a rare but life‐threatening incidence in pregnancy. Diagnosis can be challenging for clinicians as the symptoms might be approached as other common obstetric complications. …”
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Detection of Rare Beta Globin Gene Mutation [+22 5UTR(G>A)] in an Infant, Despite Prenatal Screening by Mohammad Reza Mahdavi, Hosein Karami, Mohammad Taghi Akbari, Hosein Jalali, Payam Roshan

“…A married couple, who took part in prenatal screening and diagnosis, gave birth to a child who is affected by thalassemia major. …”
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A Case of a 50-Year-Old Woman with Typical Fabry Disease Who Showed Serial Electrocardiographic and Echocardiographic Changes over a 17-Year Period by Su Nam Lee, Gee-Hee Kim, Ki-Dong Yoo

“…Cardiac involvement includes left ventricular hypertrophy, arrhythmia, endothelial dysfunction at vascular wall, and cardiomyopathy. The diagnosis of FD can be difficult and there is often a long lag time between symptoms and diagnosis. …”
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Rates of Tobacco Use Disorder, Pharmacologic Treatment, and Associated Mental Health Disorders in a Medicaid Claim Review Among Youth in Indiana, USA by Corey McBrayer DO, FAAP, Fangqian Ouyang MS, Zachary Adams PhD, Leslie Hulvershorn MD, Matthew C. Aalsma PhD

“…Mean age was 16.4 with 40% female. 1232 of the 6541 charts contained a TUD diagnosis equating to 1848 visits. A comorbid diagnosis of ADHD, cannabis use, and conduct disorder were more common in males (3.9% vs 1.3% in females; 3.4% vs .8%; and 2.8% vs .8%; P < .05). 808 scripts were provided to 152 of the 1232 youths, with 4.7% of those scripts a nicotine replacement product. …”
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Two Neonates with Congenital Hydrocolpos by Vydehi Murthy, Jessica Costalez, Julie Weiner, Kristin Voos

“…High index of suspicion for hydrocolpos in a newborn presenting with fetal diagnosis of infraumbilical abdominal mass will facilitate timely intervention and prevention of complications.…”
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Presenting with Alveolar Hemorrhage by Omar Tolaymat, Florentina Berianu

“…Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage is a rare presentation of systemic lupus erythematosus. Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment can improve outcome. …”
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Delayed Presentation of Shoulder Tuberculosis by Majid Darraj

“…Osteoarticular Tb is a far less common condition than pulmonary Tb and is frequently overlooked in the differential diagnosis of persons with joint pathology. Osteoarticular Tb infections are far less common than pulmonary Tb and are usually not considered in the differential diagnosis. …”
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Primary Cardiac Lymphoma Presenting with Thrombocytopenia, Right Heart Failure, and Cardiogenic Shock by Samantha Kurniawan, Gita Mathur, Yvonne Bogun, Giselle Kidson-Gerber

“…The patient stabilised with initiation of high dose steroids prior to tissue diagnosis and platelet counts normalised following chemotherapy. …”
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An Unusual Presentation of Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma by Kurren S. Gill, Mark A. Frattali

“…Because this rare pathology presents in a vague manner, early diagnosis requires a high index of suspicion for this disease and close follow-up care. …”
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Multiple Giant Liver Cysts in a Nepalese Lad by Ashish Lal Shrestha, Shova Banstola Paudel, Saurav Krishna Malla

“…Blood workup was normal. CT imaging made a diagnosis of multicystic giant hepatic hydatidosis. …”
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Fournier's Gangrene Associated with Local Cutaneous HPV Lesions in a Previously Healthy Girl by Maria Tsinti, Theophani Tsekoura, Evangelos Blevrakis, Ioannis Vlachakis, Amalia Tsilimigaki-Christaki

“…A case of an 11-year-old prepubertal girl with Fournier's gangrene is presented. The diagnosis was posed after the disease had progressed to the typical clinical picture of frank gangrene. …”
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TAFRO Syndrome Mimicking Solid Cancer and Successfully Treated by Tocilizumab: A Case and Literature Review by Pei-An Fu, Chia-Chi Wu, Ya-Ting Hsu

“…It took 1 year to reach the diagnosis of iMCD-TAFRO, and tocilizumab was given soon after the diagnosis. …”
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Recurrent Testicular Torsion of a Fixed Testis by Ibrahim Alnadhari, Ausama Abdulmuhsin, Omar Ali, Ahmad Shamsodini, Morshed Salah, Osama Abdeljaleel

“…This case showed that this diagnosis can occur even when the testis is still fixed to the scrotal wall. …”
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Nested Variant of Urothelial Carcinoma by Anthony Kodzo-Grey Venyo

“…Conclusions. Correct and early diagnosis of this tumour is essential to provide early curative treatment to avoid diagnosis at an advanced stage. …”
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Splenic Lymphangioma Mimicking Lymphomatous Involvement: A Case Report with Review of the Literature by Neda Soleimani, Fatemeh Pouraminaee, Mohammad Hossein Anbardar, Ali Bahador, Benyamin Rahimi, Sahand Mohammadzadeh, Fatemeh Aghakhaninejad, Mohammad Farahmand, Mahsa Hasani

“…Physical examination may show no specific findings or detect palpable masses. The preoperative diagnosis of splenic lymphangioma is challenging. Histopathological evaluation and sometimes immunohistochemistry tests can result in a definitive diagnosis. …”
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Is a “floater” always a floater? Case report and short review of sphenoid meningiomas’ ocular manifestation by Dominik Sokalski, Jacek P. Szaflik, Joanna Przybek-Skrzypecka

“…Thus, healthcare professionals need to be aware of the symptoms of meningiomas for the proper differential diagnosis of potentially life- and sight-threatening diseases. …”
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A New Method of Fault Feature Extraction Based on Hierarchical Dispersion Entropy by Peng Chen, Xiaoqiang Zhao, HongMei Jiang

“…Finally, the superiority of the proposed fault diagnosis method is verified in the realization of fault diagnosis of the rolling bearing in different positions and different degrees of damage.…”
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Complete Ectopia Cordis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Simon Pius, Halima Abubakar Ibrahim, Mustapha Bello, Mohammed Bashir Tahir

“…This condition was first described by Haller et al. in 1706; since then many advances have been made. Diagnosis of ectopia cordis is done prenatally in well-equipped health facility by antenatal ultrasound scan so that early diagnosis and management plan can be initiated. …”
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Overlapping of DRESS and Stevens-Johnson syndrome due to first-line antituberculosis drugs: a case report by Cristian Morán-Mariños, Felix Llanos-Tejada, Rebeca Huamani-Llantoy, Capriny Bernal-Turpo, Kimberly López-Pilco, Alex Ventura-Leon, Renato Casanova-Mendoza

“…From our experience with this case, we conclude the importance of an accurate and timely diagnosis using validated scoring systems such as RegiSCAR to confirm the clinical diagnosis of DRESS/SJS and ALDEN to assess the likelihood of drug causality. …”
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Diffuse Pancreatic Carcinoma with Hepatic Metastases by Hoang Quan Nguyen, Ngoc Trinh Thi Pham, Van Trung Hoang, Hoang Anh Thi Van, Chinh Huynh, Duc Thanh Hoang

“…Therefore, timely diagnosis and therapeutic management are desirable goals for this disease. …”
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