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  1. Obese living donors who undergo donor nephrectomy have higher rates of intra-operative and post-operative complications. Many centres exclude obese donors from living donor transplant programs. Diet, exercise ...

    Authors: Anoop N Koshy, Stephen Wilkinson, Jeff S Coombes and Robert G Fassett
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:107
  2. Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome is a rare genodermatosis characterized by hair follicle hamartomas, renal tumors and spontaneous pneumothorax. We present the case of a patient with pulmonary cysts and recurrent sponta...

    Authors: Geoffrey Warwick, Louise Izatt and Elizabeth Sawicka
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:106
  3. Non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases range from simple steatosis to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. The "two hits" hypothesis is widely accepted for its pathogenesis: the first hit is an increased fat flux to the...

    Authors: Aldo Ferreira-Hermosillo, Patricia V Torres-Duran and Marco A Juarez-Oropeza
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:103
  4. Infection and malignancy often have common characteristics which render the differential diagnosis for a prolonged fever difficult. Imaging and tissue biopsy are crucial in making a correct diagnosis, though d...

    Authors: Rachel A Bender Ignacio, Anne Y Liu, Aliyah R Sohani and Jatin M Vyas
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:102
  5. Campylobacter species represent the main cause of bacterial diarrhea in developed countries and one of the most frequent causes of enterocolitis in developing ones. In some patients, Campylobacter jejuni infecti...

    Authors: Biljana Miljković-Selimović, Dragana Lavrnić, Olga Morić, Lai-King Ng, Lawrence Price, Ljubica Šuturkova, Branislava Kocic, Tatjana Babić, Ljiljana Ristić and Slobodan Apostolski
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:101
  6. Tetanus rarely occurs in developed countries, but it can result in fatal complications including respiratory failure due to generalized muscle spasms. Magnesium infusion has been used to treat spasticity in te...

    Authors: Menelaos Karanikolas, Dimitrios Velissaris, Markos Marangos, Vassilios Karamouzos, Fotini Fligou and Kriton S Filos
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:100
  7. Mantle cell lymphoma is a rare non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It is a subtype of B-cell lymphoma with frequent involvement of the bone marrow and the gastrointestinal tract. Isolated parotid gland involvement seldom ...

    Authors: Mayia Pilavaki, Anastasia Athanasiadou, Fotis Iordanidis, Thrasivulos Karakozoglou and Panagiotis Palladas
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:99
  8. Henoch-Schönlein purpura is a common immunoglobulin A-mediated vasculitic syndrome in children, characterized by purpuric rash, arthritis and abdominal pain. Renal involvement, manifested by the presence of he...

    Authors: Rania Hiram-Karasmanis, Ronald Garth Smith, Maria Radina and Donald Allen Soboleski
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:98
  9. Fetus in fetu is an extremely rare condition wherein a malformed fetus is found in the abdomen of its twin. This entity is differentiated from teratoma by its embryological origin, its unusual location in the ...

    Authors: Ajay N Gangopadhyay, Arvind Srivastava, Punit Srivastava, Dinesh K Gupta, Shiv P Sharma and Vijayendra Kumar
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:96
  10. Cerebrovascular disease is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Ischemic stroke is the most common manifestation, encompassing a wide variety of causative mechanisms. We present the case of a mi...

    Authors: N S Rajendra, F Lim and N Shaukat
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:94
  11. Cystic adventitial disease of the popliteal artery is a rare cause of non-atheromatous claudication. It usually requires surgery to improve the distance walked by patients.

    Authors: Efthymios A Ypsilantis and Paul V Tisi
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:91
  12. Adenocarcinoma of the ovary is an aggressive neoplasm which often metastasizes to the lung or liver. Metastases rarely occur to the pancreas, but a tissue diagnosis is required to confirm this event. Although ...

    Authors: Dorothy A Sparks, Daniel M Chase, Mark Forsyth, Gregg Bogen and Jon Arnott
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:90
  13. Recent studies have reported a risk reduction in the progression of benign breast disease to breast carcinoma through COX-2 pathways.

    Authors: Vassilios J Papantoniou, Evangelia K Sotiropoulou, Pipitsa N Valsamaki, Angeliki G Tsaroucha, Maria G Sotiropoulou, Nikolaos D Ptohis, Aikaterini J Stipsanelli, Konstantinos E Dimitrakakis, Spyridon G Marinopoulos, Spyridon T Tsiouris and Aris J Antsaklis
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:89
  14. Primary Ewing's sarcoma or primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the genital tract of women is uncommon. Rarer still is its occurrence in the vagina, with only five cases described so far. Out of these, only one ...

    Authors: Bharat Rekhi, Sajid Qureshi, Ranjan Basak, Sangeeta B Desai, Seema Medhi, Purna Kurkure, Santosh Menon, Amita Maheshwari and Nirmala A Jambhekar
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:88
  15. Isolated spontaneous dissection of the superior mesenteric artery is a very rare condition. Endovascular stent placement has been proposed recently for selected cases, which has led to some good clinical results.

    Authors: Nicolas C Buchs, Pierre Charbonnet, Frank Schwenter, Christoph D Becker, Philippe Morel and Sylvain Terraz
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:87
  16. Pica is an unusual condition where patients develop cravings for non-nutritive substances that can cause significant health risks. We report three patients with pica, two of them showing evolutionary changes a...

    Authors: Yasir Khan and Glenn Tisman
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:86
  17. The first-line treatment for acromegaly is transsphenoidal surgery. In approximately 50% of patients, however, a cure is not possible with surgery and alternatives are needed. Somatostatin analog therapy is th...

    Authors: Christian Wuster, Stefan Both, Uwe Cordes, Wael Omran and Robert Reisch
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:85
  18. Respiratory tract infections are the major causes of morbidity and mortality in patients with cystic fibrosis. Nocardia are rarely implicated in these infections and few reports of the involvement of this species...

    Authors: Fadi Bittar, Nathalie Stremler, Jean-Pierre Audié, Jean-Christophe Dubus, Jacques Sarles, Didier Raoult and Jean-Marc Rolain
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:84
  19. Fasciola hepatica, an endemic parasite common in Iraq and its neighboring countries, is a very rare cause of cholestasis worldwide. Humans can become definitive hosts of this parasite through their ingestion of ...

    Authors: Rajan F Ezzat, Taha A Karboli, Kalandar A Kasnazani and Adnan MH Hamawandi
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:83
  20. Homozygous sickle cell carriers have an increased perioperative mortality. Some indications may justify an exchange blood transfusion to reduce the proportion of haemoglobin S. The advantages of general blood ...

    Authors: Rhett Jaeckel, Matthias Thieme, Elke Czeslick and Armin Sablotzki
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:82
  21. Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a rare form of cardiomyopathy, with heterogeneous presentation occurring in women between one-month antepartum and six months postpartum. It carries a poor prognosis and a high ris...

    Authors: Gerd Peter Meyer, Saida Labidi, Edith Podewski, Karen Sliwa, Helmut Drexler and Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:80
  22. Mycosis fungoides, the most common type of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, can manifest in a variety of clinical and histological forms. Bulla formation is an uncommon finding in mycosis fungoides and only approxim...

    Authors: Hermann Kneitz, Eva-B Bröcker and Jürgen C Becker
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:78
  23. The consequences of bone metastasis are often devastating. Although the exact incidence of bone metastasis is unknown, it is estimated that 350,000 people die of bone metastasis annually in the United States. ...

    Authors: Stavros I Daliakopoulos, Michael N Klimatsidas and Reiner Korfer
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:75
  24. The spinal cord is a target for many neurosurgical procedures used to treat chronic severe pain. Neuromodulation and neuroablation are surgical techniques based on well-known specific anatomical structures. Ho...

    Authors: Maarten Moens, Ann De Smedt, Jan D'Haese, Steven Droogmans and Cristo Chaskis
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:74
  25. Dexmedetomidine is a selective and potent alpha2-adrenoceptor agonist licensed for use in the sedation of patients initially ventilated in intensive care units at a maximum dose rate of 0.7 μg/kg/h administere...

    Authors: Timo Iirola, Ruut Laitio, Erkki Kentala, Riku Aantaa, Juha-Pekka Kurvinen, Mika Scheinin and Klaus T Olkkola
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:73
  26. Primary osteosarcoma is one of the rare tumors affecting the urinary bladder. The occurrence of osteosarcoma in a patient with a long history of transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder is even more uncommon.

    Authors: Christos Papandreou, Antigoni Skopelitou, George Kappes and Housam Daouaher
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:70
  27. Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus (former name Haemophilus paraphrophilus) is a normal commensal of the oral flora. It is a rare cause of hepatobiliary or intracerebral abscesses.

    Authors: Shaumya Ariyaratnam, Parag R Gajendragadkar, Richard J Dickinson, Phil Roberts, Kathryn Harris, Andrew Carmichael and Johannis A Karas
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:69
  28. Human infections caused by Aspergillus brasiliensis have not yet been reported. We describe the first two known cases of fungal keratitis caused by Aspergillus brasiliensis.

    Authors: Palanisamy Manikandan, János Varga, Sándor Kocsubé, Rajaraman Revathi, Raghavan Anita, Ilona Dóczi, Tibor Mihály Németh, Venkatapathy Narendran, Csaba Vágvölgyi, Madhavan Bhaskar, Chockaiya Manoharan, Robert A Samson and László Kredics
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:68
  29. High-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia, also referred to as anal squamous carcinoma in-situ, or Bowen's disease of the anus, make up less than 1% of all digestive system cancers in the United States. The tr...

    Authors: Filip Troicki, Alexandros Pappas, Robert Noone and Albert DeNittis
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:67
  30. Several cases of tibial post breakage are reported in the literature. To the best of our knowledge, only three cases of NexGen knee prosthesis (Zimmer, Warsaw, Indiana, USA) tibial post failure have been repor...

    Authors: Fabio D'Angelo, Daniele Marcolli, Paolo Bulgheroni, Luigi Murena, Terenzio Congiu and Paolo Cherubino
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:65
  31. The sole stenting technique has emerged as a new tool for the management of intracranial aneurysms. However, several concerns have emerged about the long-term behavior of intracranial stents, particularly thei...

    Authors: Marco Zenteno, Camilo R Gómez, JA Santos-Franco, Fernando Vinuela, Y Aburto-Murrieta and Angel Lee
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:64
  32. Renal involvement in POEMS (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-band, skin changes) syndrome is considered to be an under-diagnosed phenomenon with no clear treatment path. The limited literature s...

    Authors: Gareth J Rosser, Pablo Garcia Reitböck, Martin C Gray and Paul Warwicker
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:63
  33. Myasthenia gravis is a commonly undiagnosed condition in the elderly. Statin medications can cause weakness and are linked to the development and deterioration of several autoimmune conditions, including myast...

    Authors: Michael J Keogh, John M Findlay, Simon Leach and John Bowen
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:61
  34. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension can rarely be associated with an underlying endocrine disorder such as Cushing's syndrome, hyperthyroidism, or with administration of thyroxine or growth hormone. Though ca...

    Authors: Dushyant Sharma, Rohini Mukherjee, Peter Moore and Daniel J Cuthbertson
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:60

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  35. We describe three different fetal or neonatal outcomes in the offspring of a mother who had persistent circulating thyrotropin receptor antibodies despite having undergone a total thyroidectomy several years b...

    Authors: Antonio Alberto Zuppa, Paola Sindico, Sabrina Perrone, Chiara Carducci, Eleonora Antichi, Giovanni Alighieri, Francesco Cota, Patrizia Papacci, Maria Pia De Carolis, Costantino Romagnoli and Valentina Cardiello
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:59
  36. Neuroendocrine carcinoma of the gallbladder is a rather uncommon disease. We report a case of a neuroendocrine tumor that was located in the wall of the gallbladder and that extended into the liver.

    Authors: Suzana Manxhuka-Kerliu, Gordana Petrusevska, Halit Maloku, Vjollca Sahatciu-Meka, Sadushe Loxha, Naim Loxha and Labinot Shahini
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:53

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