A Case of Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome Resulting from an Invasive Pneumococcal Infection in a Patient with a Hypoplastic Spleen by Kazumasa Emori, Nobuhiro Takeuchi, Junichi Soneda

“…A 50-year-old male was brought to our emergency department by ambulance with complaints of pain and numbness in both legs. …”
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Comparative In Vitro Effects of Calcineurin Inhibitors on Functional Vascular Relaxations of Both Rat Thoracic and Abdominal Aorta by Ashok Jadhav, Venkat Gopalakrishnan, Ahmed Shoker

“…The optimal concentrations of CsA (1.0 mg/mL) and Tac (0.1 mg/mL) used to compare endothelium-dependent (acetylcholine (ACh)) and endothelium-independent (sodium nitroprusside (SNP)) vascular relaxation against the agonists in phenylephrine (PE-) constricted TA and AA of 13-week-old male Sprague Dawley rats (n=6). Results. In TA, the maximal vasodilator response elicited by ACh (control: Imax 98%) was significantly (P<0.01) inhibited by CsA (Imax 10%) but not by Tac (Imax 97%). …”
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Association between gross motor function and quality of life in a group of Brazilian adults with cerebral palsy: an exploratory study by Marina Fernandes Ribeiro, Ana Paula de Mendonça, Rosane Luzia de Souza Morais

“…Methods: This quantitative, cross-sectional and exploratory study included 30 individuals with CP, aged between 18 and 54 years old, living in a small/medium-sized municipality. …”
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Resolution of Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes after Laparoscopic Truncal Vagotomy, Subtotal Gastrectomy, and Roux-en-Y Gastrojejunostomy for a Patient with Intractable Gastric Ulcers by Laura F. Tait, Gezzer Ortega, Daniel D. Tran, Terrence M. Fullum

“…This patient underwent a laparoscopic truncal vagotomy, subtotal gastrectomy, and Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy for intractable gastric ulcers and subsequently had full resolution of her T2DM. Methods. A 48-year-old patient with a BMI of 34.6 kg/m2 underwent a laparoscopic truncal vagotomy, subtotal gastrectomy, and Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy for intractable gastric ulcers. …”
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Treatment Choices in Women with Bipolar Disorder Seeking Pregnancy: A Clinical Case Illustration by Corrado Barbui, Andrea Bertolazzi, Batul Hanife, Andrea Cipriani

“…After ten years of successful maintenance treatment with lithium and olanzapine, a 40-year-old woman with bipolar disorder expressed concerns about continuing the use of medicines, as she was planning a pregnancy. …”
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Intervention program through therapeutic physical exercise in patients with lung cancer by Onesio Esteban de León Gutierrez, Israel Triana Pérez, Iván Castillo Ledo

“…<br /><strong>Results</strong>: the age group from 65 to 79 years old and the male sex prevailed. Rehabilitation start time ranged from 6 to 12 months. …”
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Pseudomonas mendocina bacteraemia secondary to cellulitis – a report and brief series of cases by Jorge Reis, Francisca Carmo, Inês Soares, Catarina Salvado, Mariana Fidalgo

“…Case description: An 86-year-old Caucasian male, with several vascular risk factors (type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, coronary heart disease and heart failure), who presented long-standing lower limb phlyctens for which he was being treated, developed lower limb cellulitis. …”
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Ruptured Intracranial Mycotic Aneurysm in Infective Endocarditis: A Natural History by Isabel Kuo, Theodore Long, Nathan Nguyen, Bharat Chaudry, Michael Karp, Nerses Sanossian

“…The authors report a case of a 54-year-old man who presented with infective endocarditis of the mitral valve and acute stroke. …”
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A Case of Disseminated Cryptococcal Infection and Concurrent Lung Tuberculosis in a Patient under Steroid Therapy for Interstitial Pneumonia by Aoi Kuroda, Sadatomo Tasaka, Kazuma Yagi, Takao Mochimaru, Tetsuo Tani, Ho Namkoong, Kyuto Tanaka, Yusuke Suzuki, Mami Hatano, Naoki Hasegawa, Yasunori Okada, Tomoko Betsuyaku

“…Both disseminated cryptococcal infection and tuberculosis occur in hosts with impaired cell-mediated immunity, but there have been few reports about the concurrent infections in patients without human immunodeficiency virus infection. A 64-year-old man, who had been taking corticosteroids for interstitial pneumonia, was diagnosed with disseminated cryptococcal infection. …”
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Malignant Lymphoma in the Psoas Major Muscle by Nobuhiro Akuzawa, Takashi Hatori, Aya Takase, Jun Aoki, Shinji Sakurai, Masahiko Kurabayashi

“…An 84-year-old Japanese man taking warfarin to prevent cerebral infarction secondary to atrial fibrillation was admitted to our hospital for evaluation of a painless right back mass. …”
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Characterization of patients operated on for non-syndromic craniosynostosis. Villa Clara, 2018-2022 by Miguel Ángel Cruz Díaz, Ángel Serafín Camacho Gómez, Carlos Javier Artiles Rivero, Ramón Sarduy Arana

“…The surgical techniques performed were total remodeling of the cranial vault, which in most children was performed before 23 months old. The most frequent complication was infection of the surgical wound.…”
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Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Bladder with Adenocarcinomatous Component by Rami Halabi, Maher Abdessater, Johnny Boustany, Anthony Kanbar, Halim Akl, Joey El Khoury, Charbel El Hachem, Raghid El Khoury

“…The patient was a 64-year-old smoker male, who presented for the first time with dysuria and hematuria. …”
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Iliac Crest Avulsion Fracture in a Young Sprinter by L. Casabianca, R. Rousseau, P. Loriaut, A. Massein, G. Mirouse, A. Gerometta, F. Khiami

“…We report a case of 16-year-old male competitive sprinter, who had an avulsion of a part of the iliac crest and the anterior-superior iliac spine during a competition. …”
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Expectant Management of a Critically Ill Pregnant Patient with COVID-19 with Good Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes by Farah Alsayyed, Victoria Hastings, Sanford Lederman

“…There is limited data about COVID-19 infection in pregnancy, especially in critically ill patients. Case. A 30-year-old female who presented at 26 weeks gestation with acute severe respiratory distress that required intubation and intensive care unit (ICU) admission. …”
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Metacognition and Self-determination, Impulsivity and Emotional intelligence, and its relation with wellbeing and health indicators in young adults by John Alexander Castro Muñoz, María del Rocío Hernández-Pozo, Igor Barahona Torres

“…A total 223 undergraduate university young adult students was evaluated, 41 men (18,4%) and 182 women (81,6%) with ages between 18 and 30 years old (µ= 24,26 y σ=±3,30), from Bogotá Colombia participated. …”
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Episodic ataxia type 2 with a novel missense variant (Leu602Arg) in CACNA1A by Shiroh Miura, Emina Watanabe, Kensuke Senzaki, Shigeyoshi Hiruki, Sayaka Matsumoto, Takuya Morikawa, Yusuke Uchiyama, Seiji Kurata, Masayuki Ochi, Yasumasa Ohyagi, Hiroki Shibata

“…Abstract Autosomal dominant episodic ataxia type 2 (EA2) is caused by variants in CACNA1A. We examined a 20-year-old male with EA symptoms from a Japanese family with hereditary EA. …”
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HIV-Associated Vacuolar Myelopathy and HIV-Associated Dementia as the Initial Manifestation of HIV/AIDS by Natalia Wuliji, Matthew J. Mandell, Jason M. Lunt, Adam Merando

“…Here, we describe a rare case in which a patient’s initial presentation of HIV/AIDS was both HIV-VM and HAD. A fifty-three-year-old man presented with a six-month history of numerous falls due to progressive gait instability with associated memory loss, tremor, urinary retention, and impotence. …”
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Unique laparoscopic emergency management of traumatic obstructed abdominal wall hernia: A case report and review of literature by Arwa M. Aljuhani, Ghaith A. Al Saied, Arjmand Reyaz, Mohammed A. Alkahlan, Ibrahim M. Aljohani, Muhammed M. Abukhater

“…Herein, we present a case of a 32-year-old male Saudi patient who sustained significant abdominal trauma as a driver involved in a front collision while wearing a seat belt. …”
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Leg Lengthening as a Means of Improving Ambulation Following an Internal Hemipelvectomy by Wakyo Sato, Hiroshi Okazaki, Takahiro Goto

“…We reported herein leg lengthening performed to correct lower limb shortening after an internal hemipelvectomy, which improved ambulatory stability and overall QOL. An 18-year-old male patient came to our hospital to correct a lower limb discrepancy resulting from a left internal hemipelvectomy. …”
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Early Identification of Traumatic Durotomy Associated with Atlantooccipital Dislocation May Prevent Retropharyngeal Pseudomeningocele Development by Robert S. Qiu, Mina G. Safain, Max Shutran, Alejandra M. Hernandez, Steven W. Hwang, Ron I. Riesenburger

“…We present the case of a 60-year-old man involved in a motor vehicle accident who suffered an atlantooccipital dislocation and C5-C6 three-column injury. …”
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