Severe Tracheobronchomalacia after Prolonged Intubation of Multitrauma Patient by V. G. Sams, C. M. Lawson, A. B. Shibli, D. A. Taylor, P. R. Branca

“…Tracheobronchomalacia is a condition with significant morbidity with many etiologies including iatrogenic ones and should be considered in critically ill ventilated trauma patients. We present a case of a multitrauma patient who had difficulty weaning from the ventilator after prolonged intubation followed by tracheostomy tube placement. …”
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Cepacia Syndrome in a Non-Cystic Fibrosis Patient by Naomi Hauser, Jose Orsini

“…The potential for this pathogen to infect non-cystic fibrosis patients is limited and its epidemiology is poorly understood. …”
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An Underreported Consequence of Obesity in Pregnancy: Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch by William R. Hartman, Katherine W. Arendt, Kent H. Rehfeldt

“…An uncommon and likely underreported complication occurs in obese women who have received prepregnancy cardiac valve replacement with a prosthesis that is inadequately sized for body habitus, a condition referred to as patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM). The physiologic changes of pregnancy as well as the increased weight gain combine to exacerbate PPM. …”
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Marchiafava-Bignami Disease in a Nonalcoholic Diabetic Patient by Sisira Yadala, Jin Jun Luo

“…Marchiafava-Bignami disease (MBD) is a rare neurological disorder mostly seen in alcoholic and malnourished patients with a pathognomonic hallmark of corpus callosum demyelination. …”
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An Unusual Case: Salmonella UTI and Orchitis in HIV Patient by Sabrina Arshed, Hongxiu Luo, John Middleton, Abdalla Yousif

“…This can lead to critical illness in those patients with immune deficiencies, especially HIV, cancer patients, and those with diabetes mellitus. …”
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Hypothyroidism Induced Severe Rhabdomyolysis in a Hemodialysis Patient by Erhan Tatar, Tolgay Isikyakar, Kezban Pinar Yeniay, Hasan Huseyin Uzuner, Ebru Sevinc Ok

“…Here we describe a case of rhabdomyolysis due to severe hypothyroidism in a 56-year-old female hemodialysis patient.…”
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Unilateral Pulmonary Artery Aplasia in a Pregnant Patient by Chitra Lal, Jim Barker, Charlie Strange

“…Case reports of this condition in pregnant patients are even more uncommon and the best approach to management of such patients is still unclear. …”
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Leclercia adecarboxylata Bacteremia in a Patient with Ulcerative Colitis by Amir Kashani, Morteza Chitsazan, Kendrick Che, Roger C. Garrison

“…Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are a high risk population for bacteremia. …”
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Diagnostic Errors in the Acutely Dizzy Patient—Lessons Learned by Alexander A. Tarnutzer, Nehzat Koohi, Sun-Uk Lee, Diego Kaski

“…Likewise, overreliance on focal neurologic findings to confirm a stroke diagnosis should be avoided because isolated dizziness, vertigo, or even unsteadiness may be the only symptoms in some patients with vertebrobasilar stroke. Furthermore, in patients with triggered episodic vestibular symptoms provocation maneuvers should be preferred over HINTS(+), and a potential diagnosis of stroke should not be immediately dismissed in younger patients presenting with a headache (where migraine may be more common), but the possibility of a vertebral artery dissection should be further evaluated. …”
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Voice Recognition Impairment in a Blind Capgras Patient by I. Reid, A. W. Young, D. J. Hellawell

“…This impairment is consistent with the view that the Capgras delusion may arise in connection with damage to recognition mechanisms, and parallels findings of face processing impairments in sighted Capgras patients.…”
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Thalamic Abscess in a Newly Diagnosed Diabetic Patient by Kenneth A. Swanson, Robert J. Citronberg

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Spontaneous Bladder Rupture in a Catatonic Schizophrenia Patient by Megumi Miyakoshi, Takayuki Arai, Shin Kurose, Masataka Kaji, Jun Nakane, Mitsumoto Onaya, Akihiro Koreki

“…When treated as an inpatient, the patient suddenly complained of severe abdominal pain. …”
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Repeated CMV Infection in a Heart Transplantation Patient by Josep Melero-Ferrer, Ignacio J. Sanchez-Lazaro, Amparo Navea-Tejerina, Luis Almenar-Bonet, Marino Blanes-Julia, Luis Martinez-Dolz, Antonio Salvador-Sanz

“…We present the case of a patient who underwent an HTx due to a severe ischemic heart disease. …”
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Extensive Bone Lengthening for a Patient with Linear Morphea by Kenichi Mishima, Hiroshi Kitoh, Masaki Matsushita, Tadashi Nagata, Yasunari Kamiya, Naoki Ishiguro

“…Limb reconstruction surgery has rarely been indicated for LLD in patients with linear morphea. We report on a case of extensive bone lengthening for appreciable LLD in a pediatric patient with linear morphea. …”
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Pulmonary Endarterectomy in a Patient with Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura by Bedrettin Yıldızeli, Mehmed Yanartaş, Sibel Keskin, Işık Atagündüz, Ece Altınay

“…Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) patients are at high risk for bleeding complications regarding surgeries involving cardiopulmonary bypass. …”
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Tuberculosis of the tongue in a patient under treatment with adalimumab by Cintia Mussi Milani, Rafaela Arana, Rafaela Sávio Melzer, Antônio Adilson Soares Lima, Maria Angela Naval Machado, Liliane Roskamp

“…Among the predisposing factors to the disease, adalimumab, a monoclonal antibody used as an effective therapy in patients with rheumatic disorders, including psoriatic arthritis, increases the risk of active tuberculosis development. …”
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Hepatocellular Adenoma in a Patient with Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency by Lin Cheng, Yajuan Liu, Wenjing Wang, J. L. Merritt, Matthew Yeh

“…Hepatocellular adenoma in OTC deficiency patients has not been previously described. Here we report the first such case to be described in the English language scientific literature.…”
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Laparoscopic Nephroureterectomy for Adult Patient with Primary Obstructive Megaureter by Kimito Osaka, Kazuhide Makiyama, Shinji Ohtake, Hiroyuki Yamanaka, Futoshi Sano, Noboru Nakaigawa, Yoshinobu Kubota

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Successful Pulmonary Endarterectomy in a Patient with Klinefelter Syndrome by E. Wierda, H. J. Reesink, H. Bruining, O. M. van Delden, J. J. Kloek, P. Bresser

“…This paper describes a 37-year-old male patient with KS referred to our tertiary center with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, and who was successfully treated by pulmonary endarterectomy.…”
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Characteristics of the obstetric patient in critical stage in Cienfuegos province. by Bárbara Lucía Cabezas Poblet, Yoel Valle, María Antonia Cabezas Poblet, Esteban Hernández Barrios, Rolando T. Espín González

“…<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Tahoma;">Fundaments</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">:</span></strong> The critically ill patient has an important place in the assessment of the quality of the medical assistance since around 5 % of all females who reach a full term pregnancy without potential risk factors, become this kind of patients due to different causes. …”
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