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  1. Muscarinic agonists are indicated for the treatment of many conditions including ileus, urinary retention, glaucoma, and Sjögren’s syndrome. Due to their lack of tissue specificity, these drugs can lead to und...

    Authors: Blake Acquarulo, Priya Tandon and Carolyn M. Macica
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2022 16:253
  2. Traditional management of Gradenigo's syndrome requires aggressive and radical surgery without any attempt to preserve hearing. Recent reports, however, describe a successful outcome after conservative surgica...

    Authors: Ilias Kantas, Anna Papadopoulou, Dimitrios G Balatsouras, Andreas Aspris and Nikolaos Marangos
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:151
  3. Biepicondylar fracture of the elbow is very rare, and to date there have only been three reports of this injury and its treatment in the English scientific literature. This case report evaluates the surgical i...

    Authors: Savas Guner, Sukriye Ilkay Guner, Mehmet Fethi Ceylan, Gokay Gormeli, Cemile Ayse Gormeli and Haci Onder
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2012 6:265
  4. Aspergillus, a nosocomial agent, is the most common fungal cause of suppurative thyroiditis. Most patients with Aspergillus thyroiditis have disseminated infection, primarily with lung compromise. Late diagnosis...

    Authors: Suemi Marui, Ariella Cabral de Lima Pereira, Raquel Maria de Araújo Maia and Eduardo Ferreira Borba
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2014 8:379
  5. J stents are commonly used to support the continuity of the urinary tract. Although intravascular, and more specific intracardiac, migrations have been described, they remain infrequent and unrecognized.

    Authors: Laure Arts, Sofie Willems and Dirk Michielsen
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2020 14:159
  6. Sacral stress fractures are a rare but well known cause of low back pain. This type of fracture has also been observed as a postpartum complication. To date, no cases of intrapartum sacral stress fractures hav...

    Authors: Miguel Pishnamaz, Richard Sellei, Roman Pfeifer, Philipp Lichte, Hans C Pape and Philipp Kobbe
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2012 6:98
  7. Respiratory and gastrointestinal manifestations are the main causes of mortality and morbidity in cystic fibrosis. Although these symptoms are well recognized, ophthalmic involvement of cystic fibrosis seconda...

    Authors: Nazanin Farahbakhsh, Neda Bagherian, Sajad Shabanpourhaghighi, Soheila Khalilzadeh, Seyed Ahmad Tabatabaii and Ghamartaj Khanbabaee
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2022 16:188
  8. Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii) is one of the most common medically important snakes reported in Sri Lanka. Its envenomation leads to significant mortality and morbidity with local, hematological, neurological ...

    Authors: Chandrika Jayakanthi Subasinghe, Chamara Sarathchandra, Thambyaiah Kandeepan and Aruna Kulatunga
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2014 8:99
  9. Zoledronic acid is a highly effective treatment in Paget's disease for persistent bone pain and prevention of further progression of the disease. The commonest electrolyte abnormality is hypocalcemia. To the b...

    Authors: Eleftheria Panteliou, Neil Young and Morag Naysmith
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:367
  10. Idiopathic myelofibrosis is a chronic myeloproliferative disorder characterized by leukoerythroblastosis, massive splenomegaly, and increases in the reticular and collagen fibers in the bone marrow. Portal hyp...

    Authors: Kumiko Tamaki, Michiro Otaka, Naoto Sakamoto, Kenshi Matsumoto, Shunhei Yamashina and Sumio Watanabe
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:25
  11. Myotonic dystrophy (MD) or Steinert's syndrome is a rare cause of chronic diarrhea and anal incontinence. In the presence of chronic diarrhea and fecal incontinence with muscle weakness, neuromuscular disorder...

    Authors: Fusun Erdenen, Ahmet Burak Toros, Ayse Kubat Uzum and Sirin Sacak
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:371
  12. Epstein-Barr virus esophagitis in an immunocompetent host is a rare entity. It represents either primary infection or reactivation and is usually characterized by acute onset and extensive ulcerative involveme...

    Authors: Magdalini Pape, Kalliopi Mandraveli, Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios Koliouskas, Stella Alexiou-Daniel and Filanthi Frantzidou
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3:7314
  13. Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria is an acquired disorder of hemopoiesis and is characterized by recurrent episodes of intravascular hemolysis due to an increased sensitivity to complement-mediated hemolysis...

    Authors: Norio Nakamura, Toshiyuki Sugawara, Ken-ichi Shirato, Ryuichiro Kumasaka, Masayuki Nakamura, Michiko Shimada, Takeshi Fujita, Reiichi Murakami, Yuko Shimaya, Hiroshi Osawa, Hideaki Yamabe and Ken Okumura
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:550
  14. The SonR signal has been shown to reflect cardiac contractility. It is recorded with an atrial lead connected to a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator. For the first time, clinical evidence on the ...

    Authors: Jacques Mansourati, Mélanie Heurteau and Jérôme Abaléa
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2014 8:27
  15. Psychiatric side effects of deep brain stimulation are not uncommon. It is often limited to transient mood alterations. We report for the first time a case of acute stimulation-dependent fear during intraopera...

    Authors: Michael Sabolek, Ingo Uttner, Klaus Seitz, Eduard Kraft and Alexander Storch
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3:9136
  16. The oblique lateral interbody fusion technique has received increasing attention for the treatment of degenerative disc disease in recent years. A series of complications have been reported, such as vascular i...

    Authors: Chen Liu, Yu Zhang, Xin Ge, Liang Xiao and Hongguang Xu
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:381
  17. Epignathus is a rare, benign, congenital teratoma of the hard palate with an estimated incidence of 1 in 200,000 live births. Epignathus frequently leads to a high mortality (80–100%) due to airway obstruction...

    Authors: Fabrice Lele Mutombo, Jason Nzanzu Kikuhe, Noé Kasereka Mwanamolo, Marc H. Erickson, Neil Wetzig and Médard Kabuyaya Kakule
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:422
  18. Legionnaires’ disease is an acute pneumonia caused by inhalation or aspiration of aerosols contaminated with Legionella bacteria. The majority (>90%) of Legionnaires’ disease cases are caused by the species Legio...

    Authors: Sjoerd M Euser, Bas Boogmans, Petra Brandsema, Mieke Wouters and Jeroen W Den Boer
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2014 8:31
  19. Dacryocystitis is relatively common, the majority of patients present with pre-septal cellulitis and not an orbital abscess due to anatomical barriers. The authors report a case of dacryocystitis presenting as...

    Authors: Scott E Henney, Mike J Brookes, Kevin Clifford and Anirvan Banerjee
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2007 1:77
  20. Colorectal cancer is one of the most common human diseases worldwide, and metastases are detected in approximately 20% of patients at diagnosis. Brain metastases occur in only 4% of cases, however, and usually...

    Authors: Eduardo Hortelano, Christian Perea, Esther Uña, Amelia Cebayos, Patricia Diezhandino and Montserrat González
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:218
  21. We report a rare case of Bowel Associated Dermatosis – Arthritis Syndrome in a young patient with complex Crohn's disease who presented with fever, arthritis, rash and worsening of diarrhea with abdominal pain...

    Authors: Dayavathi Ashok and Patrick Kiely
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2007 1:81
  22. Malignant change in a leiomyoma or uterine fibroid is termed leiomyosarcoma. It arises from smooth muscle of the uterus and is a rare tumor that accounts for 2% to 5% of all uterine malignancies. Very few cases a...

    Authors: Venkata Sujatha Vellanki, Meghana Rao, Chinna Babu Sunkavalli, Rao N Chinamotu and Shailaja Kaja
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:222
  23. This case report and short review discusses how long trastuzumab should be continued in metastatic breast cancer, the safety issues in case of pregnancy and the risk of relapse with trastuzumab cessation.

    Authors: John Syrios, Anna Dokou and Nicolas Tsavaris
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:401
  24. Renal angiomyolipoma is considered a benign mesenchymal tumor composed of fat, smooth muscle, and blood vessels. It represents 1–3% of solid renal tumors. Despite this tumor’s benignity, it can be aggressive w...

    Authors: H. Bouaziz, M. Ghalleb, N. Tounsi, N. Riahi, H. Bouzaiene, J. Ziadi, J. Ben Hassouna, M. Slimane and K. Rahal
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:477
  25. Among cardiac causes for postpartum maternal collapse, severe mitral stenosis is not listed as a potential cause in current literature. We report a rare case of severe mitral stenosis that presented with sever...

    Authors: Abraham Fessehaye, Yared Teshome Tafere and Desalegn Degafu Abate
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:225
  26. This case report describes the effects of psychotropic treatment, quetiapine in particular, on systemic inflammation, pain, general functioning and major depression in the treatment of a woman with arthritis.

    Authors: Bernhard T Baune and Harris Eyre
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:6
  27. Neostigmine is a frequently used acetylcholinesterase inhibitor administered to reverse muscular relaxation caused by nondepolarizing neuromuscular relaxants in patients recovering from general anesthesia. Sev...

    Authors: Fardin Yousefshahi, Mohammad Anbarafshan and Patricia Khashayar
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:83
  28. Persistent trigeminal artery (PTA) is a rare arterial anastomosis between the basilar artery (BA) and internal carotid artery (ICA). It plays an indispensable role in a number of neurological disorders, includ...

    Authors: Tao Sun, Qinghao Huang, Chuangfeng Li, Wentao Wang, Longshuang He, Jinlong Liu and Chao Yang
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2022 16:292
  29. Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease, or histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis, is a rare, benign, autoimmune condition characterized by lymphadenopathy, fever and neutropenia. It is a self-limited condition of unknown et...

    Authors: Juan Garcia-Arnes, M Rosa Bernal-Lopez, Jose Luis Gallego-Perales, M Luz Vazquez-Camuñas and Ricardo Gomez-Huelgas
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2012 6:340
  30. Abiotrophia species have rarely been implicated in osteoarticular infections. We report one case of an A. defectiva knee prosthesis infection.

    Authors: Nadim Cassir, Jean-Charles Grillo, Jean-Noël Argenson, Michel Drancourt and Pierre-Yves Levy
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:438
  31. Selective laser trabeculoplasty is a treatment option to lower intraocular pressure in patients with glaucoma. It has been proven to work in adults. We describe two pediatric patients with glaucoma who respond...

    Authors: Julia Song, Alice Song, Trisa Palmares and Michael Song
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:198
  32. The existence of a graft-versus-lymphoma effect is well established. When lacking a firm diagnosis, however, the clinician is challenged to to weigh the potential benefits of the graft-versus-lymphoma effect a...

    Authors: Gerhard Behre, Thomas Weber, Sebastian Theurich and Maximilian Christopeit
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3:10

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