Báo cáo y học: "Pneumococcal sepsis presenting as acute compartment syndrome of the lower limbs: a case report" docx

... mechanism of acute compartment syndrome in the setting of sepsis is unclear. Systemic capillary leak syn- drome is a very rare condition characterised by increased systemic capillary leakage ... Respir Crit Care Med 2005, 26(6):563-574. 10. Matsumura M, Kakuchi Y, Hamano R, Kitajima S, Ueda A, Kawano M, Yamagishi M: Systemic capillary leak syndrome associated with compart...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... may lead to clinical Cushing's syn- drome and suppression of the hypothalamic-pituitary- adrenal (HPA) axis which may last from nine months to a year [10,11]. In a pharmacokinetic study of ... for approximately 20 days. Her HIV-1 infection was treated daily with the fixed dose combination of 200 mg emtricitabine and 300 mg tenofovir as well as daily 100 mg ritonavir and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... anticoagulation is recommended, this treatment may be questionable when the patient has an associated bleeding diathesis. Case presentation: We report a case of a 63-year-old woman of Asian Indian ethnicity ... and she has no residual clinical sequelae per- taining to PVT and/or dengue infection. Discussion Balfour and Stewart r eported a case of PVT as early as 1868....

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23

... clinical presentation is hypertension, mainly in the form of paroxymal episodes. Cardiovascular manifestations include malignant arrhythmia and catecholamine cardiomyopathy, mimicking acute coronary ... acute coronary syndromes and acute heart failure. There are reports of pheochromocytomas presenting as acute coronary syndr ome and rapidly leading to cardiogenic shock; the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... surgery. The mean age of cases (± standard deviation) was 71.6 ± 8.9 years and that of controls was 71 ± 8.9 years (P = 0.69). Risk factors The prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors is summarized ... on). The association between case/ control status and cardiovascular risk factors was exam- ined by means of logistic regression models. Each cardiovas- cular risk factor was e...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... presentation: We describe the case of an 80-year-old Caucasian man, with a history of ischemic heart disease, who had an in-hospital cardiac arrest related to hyperkalemia. Increasing potassium levels were ... presentation An 80-year-old Caucasian man, who was admitted to our facility for symptomatic c ontrol of bone pain sec- ondary to Paget’ s disease, had an in-hospital cardiac...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:22

... life-threatening hematochezia. After angiographic occlusion of a branch of the ileocaecal artery and initiation of antiretroviral therapy, the patient became rapidly asymptomatic and could be discharged. ... ulceration has not been reported in acute HIV infection. Case description: A 42-year-old Caucasian man was treated with amoxicillin-clavulanate for pharyngitis. He did n...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:21

... revealed a large caecal ulcer with irregular margins and a fibrinous base (Figure 1), located at the site of the hemorrhage. A biopsy of the ulcer showed acute inflammation in the lamina propria, ... branch of the ileocaecal artery and initiation of antiretroviral therapy, the patient became rapidly asymptomatic and could be discharged. Colonoscopy revealed a ble...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:20

... citation purposes) Journal of Medical Case Reports Open Access Case report Severe hypercalcaemia and lymphoma in an HTLV-1 positive Jamaican woman: a case report Veronica Lyell*, Elham Khatamzas ... exten- sive palpable lymphadenopathy. A CT of the chest, abdo- men and pelvis revealed massive lymphadenopathy in the supraclavicular, axillary, mediastinal, retrocrural, mesent...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... A diagnosis of necrotizing fasciitis was made and she was taken to theatre. At operation her groin wound was explored and pus was noted to be tracking down the site of the stripped vein. A large ... thigh as a donor site. On day 13 her wound was inspected, revealing that >90% of the graft had taken and there was no clinically apparent infection. Oral antibiotic therapy...

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