In the era of evidence-based practice, we need practice-based evidence. The basis of this evidence is the detailed information from the case reports of individual people which informs both our clinical research and our daily clinical care. Each case report published in this journal adds valuable new information to our medical knowledge.
Prof Michael Kidd AM, Editor-in-Chief
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Consent for publication is a mandatory journal requirement for all case reports. Written informed consent for publication must be obtained from the patient (or their parent or legal guardian in the case of children under 18, or from the next of kin if the patient has died). For more information, please see our editorial policies.
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Esophageal cancer responsive to the combination of immune cell therapy and low-dose nivolumab
Blocking the programmed death 1 pathway by immune checkpoint inhibitors induces dramatic antitumor activity in patients with malignant tumors. However, the clinical response to immune checkpoint inhibitors remains limited owing to the patients’ immunological status, such as the number of lymphocytes, programmed death ligand 1 expression, and tumor mutation burden.
Clinicians present two cases of patients with advanced esophageal cancer who responded to the combination of adoptive immune cell therapy and a low-dose immune checkpoint inhibitor, nivolumab.
Refractory dermatitis contributed by pityriasis versicolor
Mingjia Li et al
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2-induced acute aortic occlusion
Artem Minalyan et al
Gastrointestinal disturbance and effect of fecal microbiota transplantation in discharged COVID-19 patients
Fengqiong Liu et al
COVID-19 myopericarditis with cardiac tamponade in the absence of respiratory symptoms
Lauren Cairns et al
Retinal imaging study diagnoses in COVID-19
José M. Ortiz-Egea et al
Pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade requiring pericardial window in an otherwise healthy 30-year-old patient with COVID-19
Christina Walker et al
Articles
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Ozone therapy as an alternative method for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcer: a case report
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Unilateral frosted branch angiitis in an human immunodeficiency virus-infected patient with concurrent COVID-19 infection: a case report
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Twenty-six years of involvement with cystic echinococcosis: a case report
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Idiopathic myelitis presenting as Brown-Séquard syndrome: two case reports and a review of the literature
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An itchy erythematous papular skin rash as a possible early sign of COVID-19: a case report
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Recurrent knee arthritis diagnosed as juvenile idiopathic arthritis with a 10-year asymptomatic period after arthroscopic synovectomy: a case report
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Red ear syndrome precipitated by a dietary trigger: a case report
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A guide to writing case reports for the Journal of Medical Case Reports and BioMed Central Research Notes
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COVID-19 with repeated positive test results for SARS-CoV-2 by PCR and then negative test results twice during intensive care: a case report
A Guide to Writing and Using Case Reports
This thematic series, published in 2016, provides a valuable resource for clinicians who are considered producing a case report. It comprises of a special editorial series of guides on writing, reviewing and using case reports.
Developed by the CARE Group in 2013, the CARE guidelines provide a framework that supports transparency and accuracy in the publication of case reports and the reporting of information from patient encounters.
Aims and scope
Journal of Medical Case Reports will consider any original case report that expands the field of general medical knowledge, and original research relating to case reports.
Case reports should show one of the following:
- Unreported or unusual side effects or adverse interactions involving medications
- Unexpected or unusual presentations of a disease
- New associations or variations in disease processes
- Presentations, diagnoses and/or management of new and emerging diseases
- An unexpected association between diseases or symptoms
- An unexpected event in the course of observing or treating a patient
- Findings that shed new light on the possible pathogenesis of a disease or an adverse effect
Suitable research articles include but are not limited to: N of 1 trials, meta-analyses of published case reports, research addressing the use of case reports and the prevalence or importance of case reporting in the medical literature and retrospective studies that include case-specific information (age, sex and ethnicity) for all patients.
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Thank you to the JMCR reviewers!
Journal of Medical Case Reports would like to warmly thank the reviewers whose comments helped to shape the journal, for their assistance with review of manuscripts in Volume 14 (2020).
Article accesses
Throughout 2020, articles were accessed from the journal website more than 2.5 million times; an average of over 6,900 accesses per day.
Peer Review Mentoring Scheme
The Editors at Journal of Medical Case Reports endorse peer review mentoring of early career researchers.
If you are a senior researcher or professor and supervise an early career researcher with the appropriate expertise, we invite you to co-write and mentor them through the peer review process. Find out how to express your interest in the scheme here.
About the Editor-in-Chief
Professor Michael Kidd AM FAHMS is Professor of Primary Care Reform at the Australian National University, and Principal Medical Advisor to the Australian Government Department of Health. He is Adjunct Professor with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, Honorary Professor of Global Primary Care with the Southgate Institute for Health, Equity and Society at Flinders University, Professorial Fellow with the Murdoch Children's Research Institute at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, and Emeritus Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Family Medicine and Primary Care. He served as president of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) from 2013-2016, and as president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners from 2002-2006. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Case Reports, the world's first PubMed-listed journal devoted to publishing case reports from all medical disciplines.
Annual Journal Metrics
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Speed
134 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
122 days to first decision for all manuscripts
175 days from submission to acceptance
44 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
0.659 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.255 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
1.100 - CiteScore
Usage
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