Berry KP, Borowitz SM.

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A 66-year-old man was admitted to hospital with a right frontal cerebral infarct producing left-sided weakness and a deterioration in his speech pattern. The cerebral infarct was confirmed with CT imaging. The only evidence of respiratory symptoms on admission was a 2 L oxygen requirement, maintaining oxygen saturations between 88% and 92%. In a matter of hours this patient developed a greater ...

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Although unintentional sodium nitrite poisoning has been previously reported from home-cured meats and contaminated well-water, intentional ingestion of sodium nitrite for suicide has been increasingly reported.6–10 One case series of five patients with methaemoglobinemia in New York identified improperly labelled sodium nitrite salt as the culprit, with measured levels of sodium nitrite in ...

Background Mesenteric panniculitis is a rare and benign acute and chronic inflammatory and fibrotic process that affects predominantly the small and less frequently (20%) the large intestine mesenteric fat.1 2 It may more rarely involve retroperitoneal, pelvic and peripancreatic fat. It is more common in men, with a male-to-female ratio of 2–3:1, and it …

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A 21-year-old man with no clinically relevant medical history presented to the emergency room with a 3-week history of cough and fever. He had already been evaluated by his family practice physician who prescribed a 3-day course of azithromycin. The patient reported mild improvement of symptoms that lasted about 2 weeks. Four days …

Investigations. Initial laboratory testing showed pancytopenia (white cell count 1.29 x 10 9 /L, haemoglobin 12.0 g/dL, platelets 89 x 10 9 /L). He had significantly elevated inflammatory markers (D-dimer 25 375 ng/mL and ferritin 19 350 ng/mL).

A man in late adolescence of Asian descent was admitted with cardiac-sounding chest pain and a history of flu-like symptoms a week prior to presentation with negative screening for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. His ECG showed lateral T-wave changes and pre-excitation pattern suggestive of an accessory pathway. High-sensitivity troponin T peak was significantly elevated to 2550 ng/L (normal reference ...