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Hemoglobin A1c is used to evaluate the glycemic control in patients with diabetes and is a risk marker for chronic complications of diabetes. Hemoglobin variants are reported to falsely lower or increase hemog...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:201
Published on: 26 July 2017
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Polymyositis is a rare medical disorder complicating pregnancy. Ventilatory muscle weakness leading to respiratory failure is an uncommon manifestation of this autoimmune disease. We report a case of life-thre...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:203
Published on: 26 July 2017
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Lightning is a natural phenomenon that mostly affects countries in the tropical and subtropical regions of the globe, including Ghana. Lightning strikes pose a global public health issue. Although strikes to h...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:200
Published on: 25 July 2017
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Abdominal pregnancy is a rare form of ectopic pregnancy that is frequently left undiagnosed by inexperienced obstetricians and radiologists. It is associated with higher risk of maternal hemorrhage at any gest...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:199
Published on: 24 July 2017
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Since the establishment of the Journal of Medical Case Reports in 2006, the number of journals that publish case reports has increased rapidly, and most of these journals are open access. Open access publishing u...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:198
Published on: 22 July 2017
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Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic disorder where clinically significant renal involvement is relatively common. However, crescentic glomerular nephritis is a rarely described entity among the rheumatoid nephr...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:197
Published on: 21 July 2017
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Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:196
Published on: 19 July 2017
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Solitary plasmacytoma of the liver is a very rare and aggressive form of plasma cell dyscrasia. To the best of our knowledge, very few cases have been reported without systemic disease. We reported a rare case...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:193
Published on: 18 July 2017
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Calcified amorphous tumor of the heart is a rare, non-neoplastic cardiac mass characterized by nodular calcium in the background of amorphous degenerating fibrinous material. Clinical diagnosis of calcified am...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:195
Published on: 18 July 2017
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Pancreatic adenocarcinoma still has an excessively high mortality rate and resection is the only potentially curative treatment. The postoperative 5-year survival rate is approximately 20% and recurrence devel...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:194
Published on: 17 July 2017
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a fatal neuromuscular disorder characterized by progressive death of the upper and lower motor neurons in the central nervous system. Patients with this disease die mostly as a...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:192
Published on: 14 July 2017
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Breast cancer-related lymphedema often causes cellulitis and is one of the most common complications after breast cancer surgery. Streptococci are the major pathogens underlying such cellulitis. Among the stre...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:191
Published on: 14 July 2017
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Multiple lymphomatous polyposis is a rare type of gastrointestinal lymphoma that extensively infiltrates the intestine. Multiple lymphomatous polyposis originates from the mantle zone of the lymphoma follicle ...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:190
Published on: 13 July 2017
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Hypereosinophilic syndrome is a hematologic disorder in which the eosinophils proliferate.
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:189
Published on: 12 July 2017
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The incidence of invasive cancer within a mucinous cystic neoplasm of the pancreas varies between 6 and 36%. Polycystic ovarian syndrome is a disorder characterized by hyperandrogenism and anovulatory infertil...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:188
Published on: 11 July 2017
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Non-sexually active young females very rarely develop genital ulcers. Such ulcers pose a diagnostic challenge as well as physical and emotional distress for patients and family; therefore, the search for their...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:187
Published on: 9 July 2017
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The incidence of infectious spondylodiscitis has been increasing over the last few years. This reflects the expanding elderly and immunocompromised populations and the rising implementation of invasive spinal ...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:186
Published on: 8 July 2017
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Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis is an aggressive life-threatening syndrome of excessive immune activation. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis due to systemic lupus erythematosus is described as acute lupus ...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:185
Published on: 7 July 2017
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Mesenteric cyst is a rare clinical entity especially in pregnancy; therefore, few cases have been reported in the literature. The standard method of their treatment is surgical excision either with laparotomy ...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:184
Published on: 7 July 2017
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Nivolumab, a monoclonal antibody targeting the programmed death-1 receptor, is indicated in locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, with progression after platinum-based chemotherapy. Up-to-...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:183
Published on: 6 July 2017
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Tuberculous spondylodiscitis is a frequent localization of tuberculosis. Multi-tiered involvement and an association with sternal localization are rare.
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:181
Published on: 5 July 2017
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We report a rare presentation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis.
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:180
Published on: 4 July 2017
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Hydrocarbon-induced occupational liver injury is a well-known clinical entity among petroleum industry workers. There are many types of hydrocarbon exposure, with inhalation being the most common. Hydrocarbon-...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:179
Published on: 3 July 2017
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Sweet’s syndrome is characterized by fever, leukocytosis, and tender erythematous papules or nodules. It is a rare condition, particularly in the pediatric population, and has recently been proposed to be an a...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:178
Published on: 2 July 2017
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Primary obstructive megaureter is relatively uncommon in adults. This condition usually regresses spontaneously or is treated during infancy. It can remain asymptomatic for decades until adulthood when symptom...
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2017 11:177
Published on: 1 July 2017
