The authors wish to discuss the possibilities and pathophysiology of orbital emphysema of a live victim of high-explosive blast attack. A 35-year-old male suffered a terrorist blast resulting in shrapnel injuries, flash-burns and bilateral ear drum perforation. Throughout in a c...
Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a multi-system, inflammatory disease that presents with acute fevers, arthritis or arthralgia, and a evanescent maculopapular rash, mostly occurring with myalgia, sore throat, splenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, raised C-reactive protein (CRP), se...
Isabela dos Santos Alves, Cristyano Bismark Ferreira Leite, Cairo Thome Roca, Daniel de Souza Delgado, Maria da Graça Morais Martin, Ana Patricia Ferreira Vieira, Claudia da Costa Leite & Marcos Fernando de Lima Docema·Asian Journal of Case Reports in Medicine and Health·2020
We aim to review the etiological investigation and differential diagnosis of PRES, including viral infectious diseases, considering the current Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Our case report showed a critical patient with hemorrhagic PRES associated with nephropath...
With evolution of technology and materials, new synthetic substances like fiberglass are now available and used for the casting of fractures. Though these offer advantages for both patient and physician, the possibility of developing a pressure ulcer needs to be kept in mind, whi...
Aims: Henoch-Schönlein Purpura (HSP) is the most common vasculitis during childhood yet sometimes is misdiagnosed. Gastrointestinal symptom in HSP is a frequent finding which causes patient to seek medical care. Recurrent episode of HSP occurs in 2.7–30% cases, most of which has...
Background: Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is a genetic disorder with a deficiency or absence of G6PD, an enzyme required for the proper function of red blood cells. The pattern of inheritance for G6PD gene mutation is sex-linked recessive. It thus affects ma...
Osgood-Schlatter disease is a frequent but uncommon cause of knee pain in active adolescent children aged 10-15 years. The incidence is generally unknown. Affected children usually present with a history of pain below the patella at the insertion of the patellar tendon which is u...
Background and Aim: Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has become pandemic across the world, especially in Indonesia. One of the rare complications reported due to COVID-19 is pulmonary pneumatocele. We aim to describe the COVID-19 patient case report with pneumatocele in CT-Sca...
Introduction: Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) is an aggressive lymphoma characterized by early relapses and subsequent chemotherapy resistance representing therefore diagnostic and therapeutic challenge with a very poor outcome. Case Presentation: A 53-year-old- female patient prese...
Introduction: COVID 19 virus infection commonly presents with respiratory symptoms which has posed a serious public health concern due to its mode of transmission from direct contact. A different mode of presentation was noticed in our establishment which appeared atypical. The A...