A 41-Year-Old Patient with a Rare Cause of Severe Abdominal Sepsis Misdiagnosed as PID by Anastasia Mikuscheva, David Becker, Mark Thompson-Fawcett

“…Infectious pelvic inflammatory disease is a common condition and a frequent cause of abdominal pain in a young female patient. …”
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A Case of Diabetic Ketoacidosis Presenting with Hypernatremia, Hyperosmolarity, and Altered Sensorium by Vinod Kumar, Sushant M. Nanavati, Gabriel Melki, Mira Upadhyaya, Raman Dhillon, Sandra Gibiezaite, Patrick Michael, Monisha Singhal

“…Diabetic Ketoacidosis commonly presents with hyponatremia, but hypernatremia is a rare entity. …”
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Drug Advances in NAFLD: Individual and Combination Treatment Strategies of Natural Products and Small-Synthetic-Molecule Drugs by Xing Wan, Jingyuan Ma, He Bai, Xuyang Hu, Yanna Ma, Mingjian Zhao, Jifeng Liu, Zhijun Duan

“…Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become the most common chronic liver disease and is closely associated with metabolic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and metabolic syndrome. …”
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Congenital Smooth Muscle Hamartoma Obscuring the Cornea by Andrew Bean, Abdullah Al-Bouri, Geoffrey Bradford, Thomas Mauger

“…Congenital smooth muscle hamartoma is a benign proliferation of smooth muscle that most commonly presents in the lumbosacral area or proximal extremities. …”
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Blind-Tie Remplissage: Technique and Sequence by Weston B. Gentry, M.D., Larry D. Field, M.D.

“…Patients with recurrent anterior shoulder instability and an associated Hill-Sachs lesion are commonly encountered by orthopaedic surgeons. Effective management of the Hill-Sachs lesion can be performed using an arthroscopic remplissage technique to fill the bony defect with the infraspinatus and posterior capsule. …”
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Pregabalin for Opioid-Refractory Pain in a Patient with Ankylosing Spondylitis by Konstantinos A. Kontoangelos, Anastasios V. Kouzoupis, Panagiotis P. Ferentinos, Ioannis D. Xynos, Nikolaos V. Sipsas, George N. Papadimitriou

“…Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a systemic inflammatory disease with chronic back pain as the most common presenting symptom. We present a case of a male patient with AS reporting symptoms of severe low back pain, buttock pain, and limited spinal mobility. …”
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Diet-Intestinal Microbiota Axis in Osteoarthritis: A Possible Role by Yusheng Li, Wei Luo, Zhenhan Deng, Guanghua Lei

“…Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common form of arthritis characterized by articular cartilage destruction and osteophyte formation. …”
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Planning Disaster, Successful Event, and Uncertain Future: The Twin Cases of the World Expo 2015 and Innovation District in Milan by Luca Gaeta, Stefano Di Vita

“…Spatial planning has determined the elements common to both projects, although apart from planning strategies for the metropolitan area. …”
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Acquired von Willebrand Syndrome in IgM Monoclonal Gammopathy as the Presentation of Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma by Zachary Wolfe, Bradley Lash

“…Acquired von Willebrand syndrome (AVWS) is an increasingly recognized entity with numerous potential underlying etiologies. Most commonly implicated are lymphoproliferative, myeloproliferative, cardiovascular, and autoimmune disorders. …”
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Nummular retinal pigment epithelium loss in bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation by Neha Goel

“…This subtype of the more commonly reported bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation is notable for absence of typical uveal melanocytic proliferation. …”
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Case study: Multifocal atrial tachycardia during cataract surgery: to operate or not to operate by Jesús Nieves-Alonso, Rosa Méndez Hernández, Fernando Ramasco Rueda

“… Background: Multifocal atrial tachycardia (MAT) is an uncommon supraventricular arrhythmia that can be seen most commonly in elderly patients with underlying lung disease. …”
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Rare Skeletal Complications in the Setting of Primary Hyperparathyroidism by Nikos Sabanis, Eleni Gavriilaki, Eleni Paschou, Asterios Kalaitzoglou, Dimitrios Papanikolaou, Pinelopi Ioannidou, Sotirios Vasileiou

“…Parathyroid carcinoma represents an extremely rare neoplasm with diverse clinical manifestations which vary from asymptomatic patients to severe complications of hypercalcemia or parathyrotoxicosis while skeletal involvement is rather common. Herein we aimed at presenting a unique case of a young patient with rare aggressive skeletal complications of parathyroid cancer that initially were misdiagnosed. …”
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Erythema Multiforme Attributable to Herpes Simplex Virus: Clinical Aspects and Treatment by Aya Mtiri, Ghada Bouslama, Nour-sayda Ben Messouad, Iyadh Abidi, Souha Ben Youssef, Badreddine Sriha

“…Erythema multiforme is an acute mucocutaneous hypersensitivity reaction with various etiological factors, including herpes simplex virus, medications, autoimmune diseases, and malignancies, but the most common cause is infection by herpes simplex virus. …”
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Psychotic Features Abated with Vitamin D Treatment in a Patient with Major Depressive Disorder by David C. Fipps, Elisabet Rainey

“…Vitamin D deficiency is common in psychiatric populations, and vitamin D has been used as an add-on medication in major depressive disorder. …”
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COVID-19: An Emerging Culprit of Inflammatory Arthritis by Muhammad Shariq Mukarram, Muhammad Ishaq Ghauri, Sehrish Sethar, Nasir Afsar, Amir Riaz, Khizra Ishaq

“…Arthralgia is one of the most common symptoms that occur in patients with COVID-19. …”
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Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) Causing Tension Hemothorax in a Pregnant Woman Requiring Emergent Cesarean Delivery by Nidhi Sood, Nikhil Sood, Vibhu Dhawan

“…Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs), although most commonly congenital, are usually detected later in life. …”
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Distributed Attitude Consensus for Multiple Rigid Spacecraft under Jointly Connected Switching Topologies by Long Ma, Shicheng Wang, Haibo Min, Shouyi Liao, Zhiguo Liu

“…The whole system is proved to be stable by using common Lyapunov function method. Finally, the theoretical result is illustrated by numerical simulations.…”
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Difficult Internal Jugular Central Venous Cannulation Using J-Tip Guidewire with Indwelling Peripherally Inserted Central Venous Catheters by Preeti Anand, Minal Joshi, Khaja Ahmed, Joel Yarmush

“…Central venous cannulation is a commonly performed procedure while managing critically ill patients; increasingly we encounter patients with indwelling wires or devices, like pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillator devices, and peripherally inserted central venous catheters which complicate insertion of central venous catheters further. …”
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Pulmonary hypertension associated with connective tissue disease by Srinivas Rajagopala, Molly Mary Thabah

“…PH-specific therapy in addition to immunosuppression is the most common treatment used though data are scant. In this narrative review, we discuss the epidemiologic burden, clinical presentation, evaluation, and management of PH in CTDs.…”
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Pregnancy counseling in rheumatic diseases: Where science meets the steps by Anu Balakrishnan, Pankti Mehta, Latika Gupta

“…Most rheumatic diseases (RDs) have a predilection for women in the reproductive age group. Common drugs used in rheumatology practice have identified risks to the fetus; thus, adequate pregnancy counseling is of utmost importance. …”
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