Incidental diagnosis of intra-lobar pulmonary sequestration in an asymptomatic young male: A case report by Prabin Duwadee, MBBS, Suraj Sharma, MD, Radiology, Prabin Kumar Bam, MBBS, Amrit Bhusal, MBBS, Tek Nath Yogi, MBBS, Tilak Khatri, MBBS, Sajiva Aryal, MBBS, Pratick Shrestha, MBBS

“…Bronchopulmonary sequestration is an uncommon abnormality of the respiratory system that often manifests as recurrent pneumonia in childhood or as an incidental discovery on thoracic imaging in adults. …”
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Management of Recurrent Lung Infections in a Case of Hyperimmunoglobulinemia E (or Job’s) Syndrome by M Arsenault, V Echave, C Fish, J-P Praud

“…Thereafter, the patient was repeatedly hospitalized for pneumonia while on cloxacillin prophylaxis and receiving regular chest physiotherapy. …”
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Novel Technique of Surgical Management of Scimitar Syndrome by Mary Lark, Amanda Cai, Phillip Rideout, David Gregg, Pal Suranyi, Fred A. Crawford, Valerian L. Fernandes

“…We report a case of a 40-year-old woman with scimitar syndrome discovered on chest X-ray during evaluation of recurrent pneumonia. Surgical correction was achieved with a novel technique of using a synthetic graft connecting the scimitar vein across the right atrium to the left atrium along with ligation of the scimitar vein connection to the inferior vena cava. …”
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Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage in a Patient with Antisynthetase Syndrome by D. A. Vargas-Gutiérrez, F. Solís-Jiménez, K. I. Arias Callejas, L. Cano Cruz, R. Zapata Arenas, A. O. Acero López, P. Puente Rodríguez, S. Velázquez de la Paz

“…The antisynthetase syndrome was classified through a tomographic image compatible with a nonspecific interstitial pneumonia, along with antibodies associated to myositis (PL-12 and Ro-52). …”
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A Fatal Case of Multidrug Resistant Acinetobacter Necrotizing Fasciitis: The Changing Scary Face of Nosocomial Infection by Nupur Sinha, Masooma Niazi, Dmitry Lvovsky

“…She was treated for pneumonia for 7 days and was successfully extubated. …”
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Acute cerebral edema: a lethal neurological complication in a patient with COVID-19 infection. Case report and literature review by M. Puodžiūnaitė, R. Sadeckaitė, A. Čikotienė

“…We report a case of a 40-year-old patient with previous history of hypertension and no other chronic disease who was admitted to the hospital with respiratory distress due to SARS-CoV-2-induced bilateral pneumonia. A few days later, he developed worsening respiratory function with an acute seizure episode. …”
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Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Presenting as Pituitary Apoplexy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Rahul Gupta, Urmimala Bhattacharjee, K. S. Lekshmon, Shakun Chaudhary, Prashant Sharma, Aditya Jandial, Pinaki Dutta

“…Accordingly, he was started on dexamethasone and vincristine but succumbed to Acinetobacter baumanii-related hospital-acquired pneumonia two weeks after initiation of chemotherapy. …”
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Treatment of Immunocompromised, Critically Ill Patients with Influenza A H1N1 Infection with a Combination of Oseltamivir, Amantadine, and Zanamivir by Wouter J. Meijer, Wiete Kromdijk, Marcel P. H. van den Broek, Pieter-Jan A. Haas, Monique C. Minnema, Charles A. Boucher, Dylan W. de Lange, Annemarie M. J. Wensing

“…We report on two critically ill patients on immunosuppressive medication with influenza pneumonia. In both patients, oseltamivir monotherapy did not result in clearance of the virus after 18 and five days, respectively. …”
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A study on kid mortality - focusing on nutritional myopathy by Silva Filipe, Pires Isabel

“…The primary lesions were enteritis and pneumonia. The findings revealed that 22.5 % of the necropsied goats exhibited lesions consistent with nutritional myopathy, macroscopically detectable in the limb and heart muscles. …”
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Pediatric Plastic Bronchitis: Case Report and Retrospective Comparative Analysis of Epidemiology and Pathology by Rebecca Kunder, Christian Kunder, Heather Y. Sun, Gerald Berry, Anna Messner, Jennifer Frankovich, Stephen Roth, John Mark

“…Comorbid conditions identified in this study included congenital heart disease (8), pneumonia (3), and asthma (2). Our institutional prevalence rate was 6.8 per 100,000 patients, and our case fatality rate was 7%.…”
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Medical Device-Associated Candida Infections in a Rural Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital of India by Sachin C. Deorukhkar, Santosh Saini

“…Three commonly encountered medical device-associated infections (MDAI), catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CA-UTI), intravascular catheter-related blood stream infections (CR-BSI), and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), were targeted. The overall rate of MDAI in our hospital was 2.1 per 1000 device days. …”
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The real-world safety of Ofatumumab: a pharmacovigilance analysis based on the FDA adverse event reporting system by Yue Zhou, Yutong Wu, Xiao Zhao, Lingxu Xu, Mingguang Sun, Zhaoyou Meng

“…The commonly observed AEs encompass Fatigue, Headache, Chills, Pyrexia, Pain, Nausea, Nasopharyngitis, Vomiting, Urinary tract infection, and Pneumonia. Additionally, we identified potential AEs not specified on the drug label, such as Asthenia, Hypoesthesia, Dizziness, Malaise, Injection site pain, Paresthesia, and Diarrhea.ConclusionsThis investigation has identified several AEs associated with Ofatumumab and revealed previously unacknowledged potential adverse reaction signals. …”
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Impact of severe dysphagia on overall survival after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy by Kazumi Shimamoto, Ryota Matsui, Yorihiro Nishiyama, Kyohei Nishino, Hiromitsu Ban

“…A multivariate analysis revealed that severe dysphagia was an independent poor prognostic factor (hazard ratio, 2.956; 95% confidence interval, 1.592–5.489; p < 0.001). Aspiration-related pneumonia was most common causes of death after PEG. …”
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Agr-typing of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) isolated from non-human primates by V. A. Kalashnikova

“…Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a microorganism that causes a great number of diseases in humans and animals, including sepsis, pneumonia, food toxicoinfections, wound abscess, etc. …”
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Acute Low-Dose Hydralazine-Induced Lupus Pneumonitis by Sarah K. Holman, Donique Parris, Sarah Meyers, Jason Ramirez

“…Three months later, after multiple unsuccessful courses of prednisone and antibiotics for presumed pneumonia and asthma exacerbations, her respiratory symptoms progressed in severity and she developed resting hypoxia. …”
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Pulmonary Toxoplasmosis Diagnosed on Transbronchial Lung Biopsy in a Mechanically Ventilated Patient by Delyse Garg, Nikhil Madan, Omar Qaqish, Sandhya Nagarakanti, Vipul Patel

“…In this report, we present a case of pulmonary toxoplasmosis in a new onset AIDS patient, which was initially clinically misdiagnosed as Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PJP). Due to a poor response to treatment for PJP, the patient underwent a transbronchial lung biopsy, which led to the diagnosis of pulmonary toxoplasmosis.…”
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Deteksi Covid-19 pada Citra Sinar-X Dada Menggunakan Deep Learning yang Efisien by Novanto Yudistira, Agus Wahyu Widodo, Bayu Rahayudi

“…Kami menggunakan 1125 citra sinar-x dan mencapai akurasi 86.93 % dengan jumlah parameter model yang 18.55 kali lebih sedikit dari EfficientNet dan 22.36 kali lebih sedikit dari ResNet50 untuk mendeteksi 3 kategori yaitu Covid-19, Pneumonia, dan normal melalui uji 5-fold crossvalidation. …”
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Uji Daya Hambat Isolat Actinomycetes sebagai Antibakteri terhadap Pertumbuhan Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853 secara In Vitro by Saskia Arientika Wahyuningrum, Meiskha Bahar, Andri Pramesyanti Pramono

“…Pneumonia is a lung parenchymal infection caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.It is Gram negative bacteria that have developed antibiotic resistance. …”
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Weighted Mortality Method According to Multiple Causes of Death by Lisbeth Fernández González, Armando Humberto Seuc Jo, Carlos Antonio Rodríguez García

“…<strong><br />Results:</strong> diseases such as heart disease, dementia and Alzheimer's, malignant tumors and asthma did not show differences between the rates calculated by both methods; diseases such as primary essential hypertension, diabetes mellitus and pneumonia, showed important differences. <strong><br />Conclusions:</strong> the weighted multi-causal method differs from the classic single causal method, as the cause of interest appears more as secondary and less as basic; the mortality rate according to the weighted multicausal method is higher than that of the classical method for the corresponding cause.…”
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Solitary Spinal Epidural Metastasis from Gastric Cancer by Taisei Sako, Yasuaki Iida, Yuichirou Yokoyama, Shintaro Tsuge, Keiji Hasegawa, Akihito Wada, Tetsuo Mikami, Hiroshi Takahashi

“…Our patient developed concomitant pneumonia after surgery and died shortly after the surgery. …”
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