Gaudêncio, Margarida Nogueira, Rui Afonso, Nuno
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Mixed cryoglobulinaemia vasculitis (MCV) is a systemic vasculitis of the small and medium-size vessels caused by active hepatitis C (HCV) infection in >80% of cases. Beuthien et al. presented the first case of MCV with undetectable HCV after 10 months of therapy. In the last few years, more authors have described other cases of symptomatic MCV afte...
Elias, Catarina Cardoso, Pedro Gonçalves, Diana Vaz, Inês Cardoso, Leila
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Introduction Vaccination against COVID-19 is essential to control the pandemic. The vaccines developed so far have good safety profiles but full knowledge of adverse effects will only be acquired with time and through case reports. Case Description We present the case of a man admitted with rhabdomyolysis 3 days after receiving his first dose of th...
Ud Din, Mohammad Ammad Liaqat, Hania Gill, Prabhsimrat S Low, Soon Khai
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Severe haemolytic anaemia is a rare complication of haemodialysis that is often difficult to recognize, especially when there are other potential differential diagnoses. Here, we present the case of 19-year-old man on haemodialysis who developed severe haemolytic anaemia while recovering from acute renal failure secondary to rhabdomyolysis. Other c...
Basheer, Maamoun Saad, Elias Assy, Nimer
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Introduction Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is a common syndrome. Renal and hepatic cysts can cause discomfort, bleeding, rupture, infection, hypertension and a mass effect with compression of adjacent organs. Case presentation A 48-year-old man with polycystic kidney disease and hypertension presented to the emergency department for ...
Sheikh, Abdul Ahad Ehsan Sheikh, Abu Baker Shah, Ishan Khair, Ali Hamza Javed, Nismat Shekhar, Rahul
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The development of Clostridium difficile infection in COVID-19 patients is an understudied complication of the disease. Herein, we present the case of a 46-year-old man who developed severe healthcare-associated C. difficile infection leading to toxic megacolon and perforation in the setting of COVID-19 infection. It is important to continue to fol...
Basto, Raquel Cunha Pereira, Tatiana Rei, Luís Rêgo Salgueiro, Fábio Magalhães, Joana Sousa, Maria João Monteiro, Ana Raquel Macedo, Filipa Soares, Rita Félix Carvalho, Teresa
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Background The term phyllodes tumours, which account for less than 1% of breast neoplasms, describes a spectrum of heterogenous tumours with different clinical behaviours. Less than 30% present as metastatic disease. Complete surgical resection is the standard of care so that recurrence rates are reduced. The role of adjuvant chemotherapy or radiat...
Matta, Abhishek Kallamadi, Rekha Matta, Danielle Bande, Dinesh
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
A new trend of myocarditis among young adults who received mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 is emerging. We present the case of a young adult who presented with chest pain 3 days after the second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. He had elevated troponin I and C-reactive protein levels at the time of admission. Electrocardiogram (ECG) and echocar...
Saleh, Ahmed Osman Taha, Ruba Mohamed, Shehab Fareed A. Bashir, Mohammed
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Nivolumab is a monoclonal antibody directed against programmed cell death-1 receptor. It has an increasing application in the treatment of various advanced metastatic cancers. The incidence of autoimmune side effects associated with such agents is expected to increase. New-onset autoimmune diabetes mellitus associated with immune checkpoint inhibit...
Jelli, Blandine Taton, Olivier D’Haene, Nicky Remmelink, Myriam Mekinda, Zita
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Introduction Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations are frequently found in patients with lung adenocarcinomas, 90% being deletions in exon 19 or point mutation in exon 21. Three generations of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) targeting EGFR mutations are available and have changed patient prognosis but less data is available on exon 18...
Qureshi, Mehak Abdelazeem, Basel Khan, Ashiya Najjar, Mazen
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated, yeast-like fungus that commonly lives in the environment due to soil contamination by the faeces of birds, especially pigeons. Cryptococcus is an opportunistic fungal infection frequently diagnosed in immunocompromised patients with HIV, steroid use, malignancy, history of organ transplantation, or, rarel...
