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  1. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis is a rare hematological syndrome characterized by excessive and uncontrolled activation of the immune system. The often nonspecific nature of early symptoms and the potential...

    Authors: Jenny Y. Zhou, Jordan A. Martinez and John Paul Shen

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:345

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  2. Kawasaki disease is an acute, febrile vasculitis of childhood that affects medium-sized arteries, predominantly the coronary arteries. It is a multisystem disease; therefore, it may present with non-cardiac fi...

    Authors: Elif Arslanoglu Aydin, Selcan Demir, Orkun Aydin, Yelda Bilginer and Seza Ozen

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:344

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  3. Pituitary abscess is a rare condition with nonspecific symptoms that can be delayed. Proper diagnosis needs to occur preoperatively so that the management can be set up accordingly. Accurate diagnosis is chall...

    Authors: Yaotse Elikplim Nordjoe, Suzanne Rita Aubin Igombe, Fatima Zahra Laamrani and Laila Jroundi

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:342

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  5. Kagami–Ogata syndrome is also known as paternal uniparental disomy 14 and related disorders and is caused by abnormal genomic imprinting in the long arm of the chromosome 14q32.2 region. Its clinical manifesta...

    Authors: Haipeng Huang, Yukiko Mikami, Kosuke Shigematsu, Nozomi Uemura, Mamiko Shinsaka, Ayaka Iwatani, Fumihito Miyake, Kazuhiko Kabe, Yasushi Takai, Masahiro Saitoh, Kazunori Baba and Hiroyuki Seki

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:340

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  6. This case series describes, for the first time, to the author’s knowledge, a novel treatment for coccydynia. Tarsal tunnel block with lignocaine only brought relief of chronic coccydynia lasting more than 6 mo...

    Authors: Amjid Hammodi

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:339

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  7. Myocarditis is an uncommon manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus in which the clinical presentation can range from subclinical to life-threatening. We report cases of two patients who presented to our ...

    Authors: Shamma Ahmad Al-Nokhatha, Hiba Ibrahim Khogali, Maryam Abdulla Al Shehhi and Imad Tarik Jassim

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:343

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  8. Myotonic dystrophy type 1 is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by muscle weakness, myotonia, cataracts, and cardiac conduction defects; it is associated with expansions of cytosine-thymine-guanine r...

    Authors: Sarah C. Sasson, Alastair Corbett, Andrew J. McLachlan, R. Chen, S. A. Adelstein, Sean Riminton and Sandhya Limaye

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:338

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  9. In the United States, cocaine is a commonly used drug of abuse. It is also a recognized contributing factor for both hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes. However, cocaine-induced basilar artery thrombosis has rar...

    Authors: Osman Ali, Mark G. Bueno, Trinh Duong-Pham, Nuwan Gunawardhana, Dena H. Tran, Robert D. Chow and Avelino C. Verceles

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:337

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  10. Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord is a potentially reversible myelopathy typically associated with vitamin B12 deficiency. There is predominant involvement of spinal cord posterior and lateral ...

    Authors: Paula Loveland, Aaron Wong, Vinojini Vivekanandam and Wen Kwang Lim

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:336

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  11. There have been several reports of spontaneous closure and reopening of a macular hole, however, in most of those cases, it was observed in eyes post vitrectomy. Here, we report a case of multiple episodes of ...

    Authors: Makiko Miyamoto, Kazuhiro Shimizu, Yohei Sato, Bunsei Konose, Natsuko Mano, Hiroko Watanabe and Tsunehiko Ikeda

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:335

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  12. Inflammation of the pituitary gland can occur in a variety of primary or secondary disorders. Idiopathic granulomatous hypophysitis is a rare inflammatory disease of the pituitary gland that can closely mimic ...

    Authors: Guive Sharifi, Mohammad Reza Mohajeri-Tehrani, Behrouz Navabakhsh, Bagher Larijani and Touraj Valeh

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:334

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  13. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 8 is an uncommon genetic condition and presents with gait disturbances, ataxia, dysarthria, nystagmus, and cognitive and psychiatric abnormalities. Seizures are extremely uncommon i...

    Authors: Arun Swaminathan

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:333

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  14. Giant parathyroid adenoma is a rare type of parathyroid adenoma defined as weighing > 3.5 g. They present as primary hyperparathyroidism but with more elevated laboratory findings and more severe clinical pres...

    Authors: Mohamed S. Al-Hassan, Menatalla Mekhaimar, Walid El Ansari, Adham Darweesh and Abdelrahman Abdelaal

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:332

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  15. Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory condition that can affect the gut from mouth to anus. Gastroduodenal involvement is seen in less than 5% of all patients with Crohn’s disease. Among those cases, isola...

    Authors: K. Balendran, S. Udumalagala and N. M. M. Nawaraththne

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:331

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  16. Lithopedion is a word derived from the Greek words lithos, meaning stone, and paidion, meaning child, to describe a fetus that has become stony or petrified. Lithopedion is a rare complication of pregnancy which ...

    Authors: Fitsum Fikru Gebresenbet, Abdu Mengesha Mulat, Namus Muhajir Nur and Ferehiwot Bekele Getaneh

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:330

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  17. Ectodermal dysplasia is a rare genetic disorder that affects ectodermally derived structures, including teeth, nails, hair, and sweat glands. Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is the most common type, with oli...

    Authors: Reema AlNuaimi and Mohammad Mansoor

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:329

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  18. Globally, cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women. Here, we report a case of cutaneous lymphangitis carcinomatosa arising from cervical cancer, an extremely rare and treatment-resistant condi...

    Authors: Fumihiro Nakamura, Manabu Seino, Yuriko Suzuki, Hirotsugu Sakaki, Takeshi Sudo, Tsuyoshi Ohta, Seiji Tsutsumi and Satoru Nagase

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:328

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  19. Methomyl is the most common cause of suicidal death but heroin is the most common cause of accidental death. The problem is to determine the exact cause and manner of death between methomyl or heroin toxicity....

    Authors: Yutti Amornlertwatana, Paitoon Narongchai and Siripun Narongchai

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:327

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  20. Eucalyptus oil poisoning is rare in adults but is not that uncommon in children. The common side effects in children include depression in the level of consciousness, ataxia, seizures, and vomiting. Unlike in ...

    Authors: Abraham M. Ittyachen, Georgie Rajan George, Meera Radhakrishnan and Yetin Joy

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:326

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  21. Oculocerebrorenal syndrome of Lowe is an X-linked disorder with very low prevalence in the general population. The OCRL gene encodes the protein phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate-5-phosphatase, a lipid phosph...

    Authors: P. Tatsi, G. E. Papanikolaou, T. Chartomatsidou, I. Papoulidis, A. Athanasiadis, R. Najdecki and E. Timotheou

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:325

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  22. Sudden onset of respiratory failure is one of the most fearful manifestations in intensive care units. Among the differential diagnoses of respiratory failure, tension pneumothorax is a life-threatening diseas...

    Authors: Daisuke Hasegawa, Hidefumi Komura, Ken Katsuta, Takahiro Kawaji and Osamu Nishida

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:324

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  23. Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly characterized by uterus didelphys, obstructed hemivagina, and ipsilateral renal agenesis. The most common presentation is abdominal pain, dysmenor...

    Authors: Dilruba Sharmen Nishu, Md. Monir Uddin, Khadija Akter, Shameema Akter, Monira Sarmin and Sartaj Begum

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:323

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  24. Brugmansia suaveolens is the commonest species under the Solanacea (“Angels Trumpet” in English; “Attana” in Sinhalese) plant family in Sri Lanka. It contains alkaloids like scopolamine, atropine and hyoscyamine ...

    Authors: K. P. Jayawickreme, K. V. C. Janaka and S. A. S. P. Subasinghe

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:322

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  25. Infertility continues to be an enigmatic and emerging problem. Although in vitro fertilization has proved to be revolutionary and immensely beneficial to many people, it is far from perfect, and many women experi...

    Authors: Zakwan Khrait

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:321

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  26. Extrahepatic bile duct duplication is an extremely rare congenital anomaly in which two common bile ducts exist. There are five different types of this anomaly and we present an unusual variant of duplication ...

    Authors: Bharat Mani Banjade, Ashish Rajbhandari, Rabin Koirala, Tuhin Shah and Chitra Lal Bhattachan

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:320

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  27. Papillary squamotransitional cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix is a rare neoplasm, a subtype of transitional cervical carcinoma that appears to be a variation of squamous cervical carcinoma. It has a dispos...

    Authors: Georgios Gitas, Kubilay Ertan, Achim Rody, Sascha Baum, Dimitrios Tsolakidis and Ibrahim Alkatout

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:319

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  28. Ralstonia mannitolilytica is an emerging opportunistic pathogen that is associated with severe disease, including septic shock, meningitis, and renal transplant infections. Reports on this pathogen are limited, h...

    Authors: Michael Owusu, Godfred Acheampong, Augustina Annan, Kwadwo Sarfo Marfo, Isaac Osei, John Amuasi, Nimako Sarpong, Justin Im, Ondari D. Mogeni, Hsin-Ying Chiang, Chih-Horng Kuo, Hyon Jin Jeon, Ursula Panzner, Se Eun Park, Florian Marks, Ellis Owusu-Dabo…

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:318

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  30. Immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy has changed the standard drug therapy for relapsed or advanced non-small cell lung cancer; its efficacy is well-recognized by pulmonary physicians, oncologists, and thoracic...

    Authors: Takeo Hasegawa, Yuki Ozaki, Takuya Inoue, Yuzuru Watanabe, Mitsuro Fukuhara, Takumi Yamaura, Satoshi Muto, Naoyuki Okabe, Mitsunori Higuchi, Yutaka Shio and Hiroyuki Suzuki

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:316

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  31. Chronic total occlusion revascularization remains a challenging problem because of its complexity. We present a case of a patient with chronic total occlusion who was successfully revascularized with the use o...

    Authors: Yanzhuo Ma, Yuhong Peng, Gang Wang and Leisheng Ru

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:315

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  32. To determine the prevalence of and risk factors for malignant transformation of ovarian endometrioma during dienogest therapy, which is very rare, we examined multiple cases of malignant transformation of ovar...

    Authors: Michiko Honda, Wataru Isono, Akira Tsuchiya, Ako Saito, Hiroko Tsuchiya, Reiko Matsuyama, Akihisa Fujimoto and Osamu Nishii

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:314

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  33. Maternally inherited diabetes and deafness, and mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes are examples of mitochondrial diseases that are relatively common in the adult ...

    Authors: Mai Fukuda and Yoshiro Nagao

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:313

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  34. Thrombosis of the superior vena cava with propagation to the right heart chambers can be seen in the presence of chronic indwelling catheters. Moreover, the idiopathic right atrial thrombi may become entrapped...

    Authors: Elnaz Javanshir, Seyyed-Reza Sadat-Ebrahimi, Rezayat Parvizi, Mehrnoosh Toufan and Hosein Sate

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:312

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  35. Levothyroxine is a synthetic thyroxine and is the treatment of choice for hypothyroidism. It is a prohormone with minimal intrinsic activity. The drug is de-iodinated in peripheral tissue to form triiodothyron...

    Authors: Abbas F. Hlaihel and Mudher Z. H. Al-Khairalla

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:311

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  37. The association of macrophage activation syndrome and primary Sjögren’s syndrome has been rarely reported in the literature. We report the first observation of this association in Africa, south of the Sahara, ...

    Authors: B. S. Kane, M. Niasse, A. Faye, N. D. Diack, B. Djiba, M. Dieng, M. Sow, A. C. Ndao, N. Diagne, S. Ndongo and A. Pouye

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:309

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  38. Although epithelioid hemangiomas involving bone have been described in previous case reports and case series, the effects of radiation therapy on vertebral epithelioid hemangioma has not been fully reported. H...

    Authors: Aldis P. Siltumens, Na L. Smith, Rosalind F. Sharain, Michael G. Haddock and W. Michael Hooten

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:308

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  39. A coronary cameral fistula is a rare connection between a coronary artery and a cardiac chamber or vein bypassing the cardiac capillary bed system. Most of these fistulae are congenital and solitary, although ...

    Authors: Deogratias A. Nkya, Greenwood Sinyangwe and Farirai Fani Takawira

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:307

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  41. Hypercalcemia and aplastic anemia are two uncommon presentations of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that potentially worsen the disease prognosis. Although hypercalcemia has been reported in the B-cell subtypes and some ...

    Authors: Mickael Essouma, Dorothée M. Soh, Mazou N. Temgoua, Ronald M. Gobina, Aristide T. Nono, Etienne Olivier Atenguena, Mahamat Maimouna and Gloria E. Ashuntantang

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:305

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  42. Increased smartphone use among minors makes our population more prone to electrical injury. Despite regulations on electrical home safety standards, smartphones and chargers still pose a risk for severe injury...

    Authors: Sem F. Hardon, Pieter J. Haasnoot and Annebeth Meij- de Vries

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:304

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  43. Typhoid fever is a human-specific disease caused by a bacterium, Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Typhi. It is transmitted through ingestion of contaminated food or water. It is mostly diagnosed by...

    Authors: Aneley Getahun S., Josese Limaono, Raween Ligaitukana, Orisi Cabenatabua, Vika Soqo, Raape Diege and Mikaele Mua

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:303

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  44. Torque teno virus-induced aseptic meningitis has not been documented, although torque teno virus infections still remain under consideration for etiological agents. This study identified a torque teno virus se...

    Authors: Yoji Ikuta, Kunihiro Oba, Emina Nai, Tatsuo Katori, Masanori Hashino, Yuba Inamine, Satoko Matsunaga, Yutaro Yamaoka, Tsuyoshi Sekizuka, Akihide Ryo and Makoto Kuroda

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:302

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  45. Primary effusion lymphoma is a rare, high-grade non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that usually occurs in immunosuppressed or human immunodeficiency virus-positive individuals in advanced stages of the disease. However, p...

    Authors: Liliana Fernández-Trujillo, John E. Bolaños, Mauricio Velásquez, Carlos García and Luz F. Sua

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:301

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  46. Although several cases of hepatitis B virus reactivation have been described in patients with a history of hepatitis B virus infection while undergoing treatment for hepatitis C virus infection with direct act...

    Authors: Luca Foroghi Biland, Ludovica Ferrari, Vincenzo Malagnino, Elisabetta Teti, Carlotta Cerva, Adele Gentile, Marianna Aragri, Romina Salpini, Valentina Svicher, Massimo Andreoni and Loredana Sarmati

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:299

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  47. Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis is characterized by partial (segmental) sclerotic lesions in some glomeruli (focal). Primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis is generally considered resistant to steroid t...

    Authors: Arina Yamasaki, Daisuke Bito, Erina Eto, Keiichiro Matsumoto, Megumi Nakamura, Junji Miyazaki, Kenichi Matsumoto, Masanori Masuda, Daisuke Mori and Toru Yoshimura

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:298

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  48. A unicuspid aortic valve is a rare congenital cardiac abnormality. Despite its uncommon finding on an initial presentation, aortic insufficiency is accompanied with unicuspid aortic valve and this might reflec...

    Authors: Naoko Yuzawa-Tsukada, Toshikazu D. Tanaka, Satoshi Morimoto and Michihiro Yoshimura

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:297

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  49. According to experimental and clinical published studies, patients with keratoconus have a genetic predisposition to corneal ectasia; however, ectasia might not be activated or reactivated unless an additional...

    Authors: Georgios Labiris, Eirini-Kanella Panagiotopoulou, Panagiota Ntonti and Sergios Taliantzis

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:296

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