Background: Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) is a crime against children. It is largely under-reported and commonly goes unpunished in our society. Case report: The patient is a 4-year-old girl who presented to our emergency paediatric unit with 14 hours duration of faecal incontinence f...
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Research Article10.9734/ijmpcr/2022/v15i230153
Aims: A previous study reported hemolytic crisis in patients with erythro-enzymopathy. Here, we report two further cases of massive acute hemolysis with methemoglobinemia in two siblings with glucose dehydrogenase deficiency and parvovirus B19 (PAVB) infection. Presentations of C...
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Research Article10.9734/ijmpcr/2022/v15i230152
Vitamin B12 deficiency is a common nutritional deficiency in both developed and developing countries. This water-soluble vitamin is synthesized by bacteria and archaea and plays a major role in DNA synthesis and effective hematopoiesis. Most common etiologies of B12 deficiency in...
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Research Article10.9734/ijmpcr/2022/v15i230151
Aims: The world is in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we report two infant cases of vitamin D (VD) deficiency associated with a lack of sunlight. Presentations of case: Patients and their families stayed indoors according to orders issued by the public administration. Co...
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Research Article10.9734/ijmpcr/2022/v15i230150
Background: With an angiographic prevalence approaching 1%, Anomalous connections of the Coronary arteries (ANOCOR) are rare. The term connection is preferred over origin since the coronary arteries do not grow out of the aorta but grow into the aorta from the peri truncal ring o...
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Research Article10.9734/ijmpcr/2022/v15i130149
The inadvertent intravenous administration of oral suspension which is rarely reported has contributed to potential patient harm. We received an incident report in which a patient had received an oral liquid formulation intravenously. This has been happening when an oral liquid i...
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Research Article10.9734/ijmpcr/2022/v15i130148
Introduction: Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms (DRESS) is a medical condition that is a severe adverse drug event. Anti-tuberculosis medications may precipitate this condition. Study Design: Case presentation. Place and Duration of Study: Sample: Department o...
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Research Article10.9734/ijmpcr/2022/v15i130147
Brucellosis in human is an uncommon disease in Libya and usually diagnosed by serological assays. The clinical symptoms of this disease are none specific which makes differential diagnosis difficult.The patient was a sixteen years old girl, lives in a rural area. She was sufferin...
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Research Article10.9734/ijmpcr/2022/v15i130146
A 8 month old female infant presented with a complain of fever since 4 days which was low grade to moderate in nature, intermittent 1-2 spikes/day which was relieved with medication, cough and cold since 2 days which was on and off since last 2 months, and had complain of ear dis...
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Research Article10.9734/ijmpcr/2022/v15i130145
Introduction: Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most prevalent neurologic disorders, leading to progressive disability; it is characterized by tremors, slow movements, stiffness in arms and legs, and balance impairment; PD symptoms can be slowed but not stopped by treatment...
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Research Article10.9734/ijmpcr/2021/v14i430143
Background: Still's disease in adults is a systemic inflammatory pathology of unknown aetiology, characterized by clinical manifestations associating feverish peaks, arthritis or arthtralgia, transient rashes and hyperferritinemia. Currently, this disease remains a multisystemic...
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Research Article10.9734/ijmpcr/2021/v14i430144
An erythrocytosis describes an increased erythrocyte, subclassified into relative due to hemoconcentration or absolute by an increase in erythrocyte mass, defined as an increase in hemoglobin concentration and/or hematocrit in the peripheral blood above the sex-specific normal ra...
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Research Article10.9734/ijmpcr/2021/v14i430142
An elderly male presented with symptoms suggestive of anemia. During workup for the same he was found to have very high levels of serum Ferritin along with a normocytic, normochromic peripheral blood film and no other apparent cause for hyperferritinemia .A swelling which inciden...
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Research Article10.9734/ijmpcr/2021/v14i430141
This case was of a 35-years old Egyptian lady, who works as a primary school teacher, who presented to the OPD with complaints of persistent high fever for two days. Along with this fever, she also had severe pain in multiple joints of both hands, wrists, knees, and ankles. In ad...
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Research Article10.9734/ijmpcr/2021/v14i430140
Introduction: Bullous haemorrhagic dermatosis is a rare clinical disorder which is usually related to a treatment with unfractionated heparin (UFH) or low molecular weight heparin (LMWH), characterized by multiple intra-epidermal haemorrhages distant from the site of injection. P...
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Research Article10.9734/ijmpcr/2021/v14i430139