Infection with hepatitis C virus as a cause of cirrhosis – case study by Lidia Sierpińska, Małgorzata Januszek

“…A case of a 36-year old patient was presented diagnosed with cirrhosis, admitted to the emergency department due to haemorrhage from the upper gastrointestinal tract. …”
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Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children: A Multidisciplinary Consensus Review by Donald E Low, James D Kellner, Upton Allen, Francois D Boucher, Thomas Kovesi, John Riesman, Ross Davidson, Joanne M Langley

“…The review discusses the etiology, diagnosis and antimicrobial treatment of PCAP as well as indications for referral to a hospital emergency department. The goal of the review is to provide those involved with treatment of PCAP in the community setting with information that can be used to make effective treatment choices.…”
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Vaginal Cuff Dehiscence Presenting with Free Air 60 Days after Robotic-Assisted Hysterectomy by D. Munger, M. Iannamorelli, C. Galvez, C. Service

“…Here we describe the case of a 38-year-old Caucasian female who presented to the emergency department with three days of cramping, epigastric abdominal pain. …”
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Heterotopic Pancreas in the Gallbladder: Case Report and Literature Review by Emad Aborajooh, Ibrahim Khalil Khairi Ghayada, Yasser Mustafa Issa Lafi

“…A 49-year-old male presented to the emergency department complaining of progressively worsening right upper abdominal pain for the last 24 hours. …”
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Drug-induced Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis Secondary to Trimethoprim/Sulfamethoxazole: A Case Report by Ambika Shivarajpur, Simon Londono, Justin Shaw, Christopher Boccio, Leonid Melnitsky, Jheanelle McKay, Brian Kohen, Eric Boccio

“…Case Report: A 91-year-old female with past medical history of Alzheimer dementia and hypertension, being treated for lower extremity cellulitis, presented to the emergency department for an allergic reaction. Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) had been initiated six days earlier. …”
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Effect of Predictive Nursing Combined with Emotional Therapy on Rehabilitation Effect and Psychological State of Patients with Brain Injury after the Operation by Xiaying Huang, Haihua Wu

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The Floating Acromion: A Rare and Previously Unreported Injury Possibly Requiring Surgical Stabilization by Simone J. M. Stoots, Robert J. Derksen

“…A fifty-four-year-old female patient was presented at the Emergency Department following a fall from the stairs. She complained of severe pain in the left shoulder. …”
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Aerosol Inhalation of Heat-Killed Clostridium butyricum CGMCC0313-1 Alleviates Allergic Airway Inflammation in Mice by Laodong Li, Qixiang Sun, Huan Xiao, Qiannan Zhang, Siyue Xu, Lejin Lai, Zhengning Li, Chaoqian Li

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Rare Presentation of Hypoglycemia in a Patient with Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma by Raed Aldahash

“…Thus, involvement of other organs is very rare as we found in a 54-year-old male patient, a known case of hypertension and end-stage renal disease who was on hemodialysis, who presented to the emergency department with a history of generalized weakness and weight loss of about 20 kg for two months. …”
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Missed Capitellar Fracture Caused by Avoidance of Radiological Evaluation in Pregnancy by Barış Polat, Ramadan Özmanevra, Deniz Aydın, Enes Sarı, Mehmet Yalçınozan

“…A 29-year-old 6-month pregnant woman presented to the emergency department due to a history of falling on her outstretched hand. …”
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Camel Bite Associated with Depressed Skull Fracture with Rapidly Spreading Subgaleal Cellulitis by Shaymaa Al-Umran, Ahmad Abdulfattah, Faisal Alabbas, Hosam Al-Jehani

“…He arrived to our emergency department 3 hours after injury. All the wounds were dry and the skin around them was healthy looking with no subcutaneous collections. …”
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Treatment of a Developmental Groove and Supernumerary Root Using Guided Tissue Regeneration Technique by Zahra Alizadeh Tabari, Hamed Homayouni, Tahere Pourseyediyan, Armita Arvin, Derrick Eiland, Nima Moradi Majd

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Faecopneumothorax Caused by Perforated Diaphragmatic Hernia by Kristina Necke, Nickolaus Heeren, Francesco Mongelli, Maurice FitzGerald, Jürgen Fornaro, Fabrizio Minervini, Jürg Metzger, Jörn-Markus Gass

“…A 78-year-old male patient presented to our emergency department with severe abdominal pain. A computer tomography (CT) scan revealed herniation of the left transverse colon and spleen into the thorax with colon perforation and fecal contents in the thoracic cavity. …”
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Intranasal Lobular Capillary Hemangioma with Multiple Sites of Origin during Pregnancy: A Case Report and Literature Review by Lama S. Alalula, Abdullah S. Arafat, Riyadh A. Alhedaithy, Mohammed Elkrim

“…In the present case report, we describe a 33-year-old pregnant woman in the third trimester with a history of recurrent epistaxis leading to frequent visits to the emergency department. Each episode of epistaxis was managed by anterior nasal packing. …”
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Lighter Ingestion as an Uncommon Cause of Severe Vomiting in a Schizophrenia Patient by Yahya Atayan, Yasir Furkan Cagin, Mehmet Ali Erdogan, Yılmaz Bilgic, Remzi Bestas, Murat Harputluoglu, Yüksel Seckin

“…A 21-year-old male schizophrenic patient who uses psychotic drugs presented to the emergency department with the complaints of abdominal pain, severe vomiting, and inability to swallow for a week. …”
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Active Liver Bleed Caught During FAST Exam from Spontaneous Hemangioma Rupture: A Case Report by Raul Rodriguez, Nicole Aviles

“…Case Report: A 55-year-old male who had recently been admitted to trauma service due to multiple rib fractures presented back to the emergency department (ED) due to an episode of syncope and was found to have an acute, left segmental pulmonary embolism. …”
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Bone within bone as a calcified chronic extra-dural hematoma mimicking ossified chronic subdural hematomas: a rare case report in pediatric patients by Mohan Karki, Yam Bahadur Roka, Abhinash Jha

“…Case Presentation We report a case of 10-year-old female who presented in emergency department with complaints of headache, repeated attacks of seizure, disorientation and sudden loss of consciousness for 2 days. …”
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Scaphoid Fat Stripe Sign: Is It a Reliable Radiological Sign of Scaphoid Fracture in Children? by Pavle Manic, Stéphanie Schizas, Pierre-Yves Zambelli, Eleftheria Samara

“…Methods: This is a monocentric, retrospective study of all patients referred to the Pediatric Traumatology Unit of a tertiary hospital from the Emergency Department with clinical suspicion of scaphoid fracture without visible fracture in the initial X-ray. …”
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Rapid Glomerulotubular Nephritis as an Initial Presentation of a Lethal Diquat Ingestion by Daniel Guck, Reynaldo Hernandez, Steven Moore, Andry Van de Louw, Philippe Haouzi

“…A 60-year-old male with a history of severe depression presented to the emergency department after intentional ingestion of a commercial herbicide containing diquat dibromide 2.30%. …”
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Invasive Aspergillosis in a Patient with Stage III (or 3a or 3b) Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Durvalumab by Ashish Gupta, Aung Tun, Katy Ticona, Aam Baqui, Elizabeth Guevara

“…A 63-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 15-day history of increasing shortness of breath. …”
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