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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Michael Dreher, Alexander Kersten, Johannes Bickenbach, Paul Balfanz, Bojan Hartmann, Christian Cornelissen, Ayham Daher, Robert Stöhr, Michael Kleines, Sebastian W Lemmen, Jörg Christian Brokmann, Tobias Müller, Dirk Müller-Wieland, Gernot Marx, Nikolaus Marx
BACKGROUND: The type of pneumonia (coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19) that is caused by the new coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, SARS-CoV-2) is now spreading across the world in a pandemic. Many patients with COVID-19 were admitted to the University Hospital Aachen during an outbreak that first struck the Heinsberg district in February 2020. METHODS: A comparative presentation of the clinical features of the first 50 COVID-19 patients with and without acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) who were hospitalized in the University Hospital Aachen...
April 17, 2020: Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Michael G Argenziano, Samuel L Bruce, Cody L Slater, Jonathan R Tiao, Matthew R Baldwin, R Graham Barr, Bernard P Chang, Katherine H Chau, Justin J Choi, Nicholas Gavin, Parag Goyal, Angela M Mills, Ashmi A Patel, Marie-Laure S Romney, Monika M Safford, Neil W Schluger, Soumitra Sengupta, Magdalena E Sobieszczyk, Jason E Zucker, Paul A Asadourian, Fletcher M Bell, Rebekah Boyd, Matthew F Cohen, MacAlistair I Colquhoun, Lucy A Colville, Joseph H de Jonge, Lyle B Dershowitz, Shirin A Dey, Katherine A Eiseman, Zachary P Girvin, Daniella T Goni, Amro A Harb, Nicholas Herzik, Sarah Householder, Lara E Karaaslan, Heather Lee, Evan Lieberman, Andrew Ling, Ree Lu, Arthur Y Shou, Alexander C Sisti, Zachary E Snow, Colin P Sperring, Yuqing Xiong, Henry W Zhou, Karthik Natarajan, George Hripcsak, Ruijun Chen
OBJECTIVE: To characterize patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) in a large New York City medical center and describe their clinical course across the emergency department, hospital wards, and intensive care units. DESIGN: Retrospective manual medical record review. SETTING: NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, a quaternary care academic medical center in New York City. PARTICIPANTS: The first 1000 consecutive patients with a positive result on the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assay for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) who presented to the emergency department or were admitted to hospital between 1 March and 5 April 2020...
May 29, 2020: BMJ: British Medical Journal
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Salut Muhidin, Zahra Behboodi Moghadam, Maryam Vizheh
Introduction: The emergence and fast spread of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) threatens the world as a new public health crisis. This study aimed to clarify the impact of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on pregnant patients and maternal and neonatal outcomes. Methods: A comprehensive literature search was conducted in databases including PubMed, Scopus, Embase, ProQuest, and Science Direct. All studies including original data; case reports, case series, descriptive and observational studies, and randomized controlled trials were searched from December 2019 until 19 March 2020...
2020: Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine
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Fabien Hauw, Vera Dinkelacker, Pierre Jaquet, Hervé Vespignani, Charles Grégoire, Mathilde Perrin, Nicolas Engrand
Purpose: Although it is a well-known disease, the occurrence of Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) during a hospital stay may render the diagnosis particularly challenging. The objective of this report is to alert clinicians about the diagnostic pitfalls arising from hospital-developed HSE. Materials and methods: Clinical observation of one patient. Case report: An 87-year-old male was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) because of respiratory failure due to an exacerbation of myasthenia gravis...
March 2020: Heliyon
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Sidra Aurangzeb, Lara Prisco, Jane Adcock, Mahiri Speirs, Simon Raby, Jon Westbrook, Arjune Sen
INTRODUCTION: Literature on New-Onset Refractory Status Epilepticus (NORSE) is scarce and management is guided mainly by retrospective reports, short case series or expert opinions. We aimed to add to the pool of the available data by retrospectively reviewing seven cases of NORSE cases admitted to our hospital over the last five years between January 2014 and March 2019. METHODS: Fully anonymised data from medical charts, EEG reports, imaging reports, laboratory test results, types of antiepileptic medications, intravenous anaesthetic therapy, and immune therapies received was collected, along with response to treatment, length of hospital stay and outcome at discharge...
February 2020: Seizure: the Journal of the British Epilepsy Association
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jun Young Choi, Eun Jin Kim, So Young Moon, Tae-Joon Kim, Kyoon Huh
INTRODUCTION: New-onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) is defined as refractory SE in patients without active epilepsy or relevant neurological disorder with no clear active causes. Diverse types and etiologies of NORSE are reported in various groups. Limbic encephalitis (LE) is reported as one of etiologies of NORSE. In this study, we investigated whether there were any intersections between NORSE and limbic encephalitis, as well as the presence of prognostic factors in intersection patients...
December 2019: Epilepsy Research
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Min Dai, Yafei Liu, Wei Chen, Heena Buch, Yi Shan, Liuhui Chang, Yong Bai, Chen Shen, Xiaoyin Zhang, Yufeng Huo, Dian Huang, Zhou Yang, Zhihang Hu, Xuwei He, Junyu Pan, Lili Hu, Xinfang Pan, Xiangtao Wu, Bin Deng, Zhifeng Li, Bota Cui, Faming Zhang
BACKGROUND: Antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD) is a risk factor for exacerbating the outcome of critically ill patients. Dysbiosis induced by the exposure to antibiotics reveals the potential therapeutic role of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) in these patients. Herein, we aimed to evaluate the safety and potential benefit of rescue FMT for AAD in critically ill patients. METHODS: A series of critically ill patients with AAD received rescue FMT from Chinese fmtBank, from September 2015 to February 2019...
October 21, 2019: Critical Care: the Official Journal of the Critical Care Forum
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C-M Schutte, C H Van der Meyden, M Kakaza, Z Lockhat, E Van der Walt
BACKGROUND: The recent listeriosis outbreak in South Africa (SA) received widespread attention in the media. More than 1 000 laboratory-confirmed cases of listeriosis occurred during an 18-month period, with a case fatality rate of 28%. Acute bacterial meningitis due to listeriosis was extremely rare at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria until 2017/18, when we saw two very sick adults with this condition during the listeriosis outbreak. OBJECTIVES: To describe the presentation, treatment and outcome of these patients to raise awareness of this potentially fatal but treatable infection that does not respond to empirical third-generation cephalosporins...
April 29, 2019: South African Medical Journal
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Débora Bellini Caldeira, Luciano Kleber de Souza Luna, Aripuana Watanabe, Ana Helena Perosa, Celso Granato, Nancy Bellei
In 2007, the new polyomaviruses WUPyV and KIPyV were identified in patients with acute respiratory infections. The aim of this study was to investigate these viruses in hospitalized patients with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI). A retrospective study was conducted with 251 patients, from April 2009 to November 2010, using nasopharyngeal aspirates, naso- and oropharyngeal swab samples from hospitalized patients (children < 12 years and adults) who had SARI within 7 days of the onset of symptoms, including fever (> 38...
November 30, 2018: Brazilian Journal of Microbiology: [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology]
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Maria Shoaib, Jacqueline J Kraus, Muhammad T Khan
Herpes simplex virus encephalitis (HSVE) is a medical emergency associated with high mortality and morbidity. Definitive diagnosis is established by history, clinical examination, neuroimaging studies, supportive electroencephalogram (EEG) findings, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis. We report a case of HSVE presenting as a stroke mimic in a 76-year-old female with a history of atrial fibrillation on warfarin. She was admitted to our medical intensive care unit with intermittent fever, lethargy, and new onset left-sided hemiparesis...
January 15, 2018: Curēus
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Ahmad Awan, Bisma Ahsan, Hasan Iftikhar, Akbar Khan, Fasil Tiruneh, Yididia Bekele, Ankit Mahajan, Ahmed A Awan
We present the case of a 31-year-old female with a past medical history of B-cell leukemia, on maintenance chemotherapy administered via centrally placed implantable catheter port, who presented to the emergency room with fever, chills, and generalized body pain of one day's duration. After initial workup, the patient was admitted to the intensive care unit and managed for severe sepsis. The patient was found to have a new-onset 3/6 holosystolic murmur at the left lower sternal border. Furthermore, she developed an episode of supraventricular tachycardia that responded to adenosine...
July 11, 2017: Curēus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stefano Meletti, Giada Giovannini, Giuseppe d'Orsi, Lisa Toran, Giulia Monti, Rahul Guha, Andreas Kiryttopoulos, Maria Grazia Pascarella, Tommaso Martino, Haris Alexopoulos, Martha Spilioti, Jana Slonkova
New-onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) is a rare but challenging condition occurring in a previously healthy patient, often with no identifiable cause. We describe the electro-clinical features and outcomes in a group of patients with NORSE who all demonstrated a typical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sign characterized by bilateral lesions of the claustrum. The group includes 31 patients (12 personal and 19 previously published cases; 17 females; mean age of 25 years). Fever preceded status epilepticus (SE) in 28 patients, by a mean of 6 days...
2017: Frontiers in Neurology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tanya Thomas, Joshua Reuss, Gina Degennaro, Elizabeth Daniels, Jin Li, Mark Smolkin, Michael Kenneth Keng
114 Background: Febrile neutropenia (FN) is a common complication in oncology patients and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality if untreated. Because of this, it is regarded as a medical emergency. FN treatment guidelines universally recommend the prompt initiation ( < 60 minutes) of intravenous antibiotic therapy. We hypothesized that a quality initiative project creating a new FN clinical practice guideline (CPG) would reduce the time to antibiotic administration (TTA) for inpatient oncology patients with FN...
March 2016: Journal of Clinical Oncology
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Sreenivasa Rao Sudulagunta, Mahesh Babu Sodalagunta, Mona Sepehrar, Shiva Kumar Bangalore Raja, Aravinda Settikere Nataraju, Mounica Kumbhat, Deepak Sathyanarayana, Siddharth Gummadi, Hemanth Kumar Burra
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne arthropod-borne viral (arboviral) tropical disease in humans affecting 50-528 million people worldwide. The acute abdominal complications of dengue fever are acute appendicitis, acute pancreatitis, acute acalculous cholecystitis and non-specific peritonitis. Acute pancreatitis with new onset diabetes in dengue shock syndrome (DSS) is very rarely reported. We describe a case of 30-year-old man admitted in intensive care unit and was diagnosed with DSS with RT-PCR, NS1 antigen and dengue IgM antibody being positive...
November 2016: Oxford Medical Case Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Carlos H Gómez-Quintero, Álvaro A Faccini-Martínez, Carlos A Botero-García, Marcela Lozano, Liliana Sánchez-Lerma, Jorge Miranda, Salim Mattar, Marylin Hidalgo
Spoted fever group (SFG) rickettsioses are actually considered as emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases, caused by pathogenic bacteria of the spotted fever group rickettsiae (SFGR). Recently, serologic studies in human and animals conducted in Colombian Orinoquia, showed a high seroprevalence against SFGR. In June 2015, a 50-year-old male was admitted to a hospital in Bogotá, Colombia, with two days of malaise and temperature of 39°C, associated to generalized rash 24h after the onset of fever. He referred a work visit and outdoor activities in rural area of the Department of Meta 15days prior the onset of symptoms...
May 2017: Journal of Infection and Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sandra H Hoeboer, Heleen M Oudemans-van Straaten, A B Johan Groeneveld
BACKGROUND: We studied the value of routine biochemical variables albumin, C-reactive protein (CRP) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) to improve prediction and monitoring of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) severity in the intensive care unit. METHODS: In 101 critically ill patients, with or at risk for ARDS after new onset fever, data were collected on days (D) 0, 1, 2, and 7 after inclusion. ARDS was defined by the Berlin definition and lung injury score (LIS)...
2015: BMC Pulmonary Medicine
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Sandra H Hoeboer, Heleen M Oudemans-van Straaten, A B Johan Groeneveld
BACKGROUND: We studied the value of routine biochemical variables albumin, C-reactive protein (CRP) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) to improve prediction and monitoring of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) severity in the intensive care unit. METHODS: In 101 critically ill patients, with or at risk for ARDS after new onset fever, data were collected on days (D) 0, 1, 2, and 7 after inclusion. ARDS was defined by the Berlin definition and lung injury score (LIS)...
December 2015: BMC Pulmonary Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Simone Vigneri, Savino Spadaro, Ilaria Farinelli, Riccardo Ragazzi, Carlo A Volta, Jay G Capone, Elisabetta Sette, Valeria Tugnoli
A 69-year-old white man was admitted because of a clinical history of persistent cough and fever. Chest x-rays showed bilateral lung infiltrates with air bronchograms, whereas the urine antigen test resulted positive for Legionella pneumophila. The next day, he was transferred to the intensive care unit and intubated because of severe renal and respiratory distress. Neurological examination revealed distal weakness and loss of deep tendon reflexes in lower extremities. Nerve conduction studies displayed severe demyelinating sensorimotor polyneuropathy, and plasmapheresis was therefore applied with mild improvement...
December 2014: Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
T Coman, G Troché, O Semoun, B Pangon, F Mignon, G Jacq, S Merceron, N Abbosh, V Laurent, P Guezennec, M Henry-Lagarrigue, L Revault-d'Allonnes, H Ben-Mokhtar, J Audibert, F Bruneel, M Resche-Rigon, J-P Bedos, S Legriel
OBJECTIVES: We wanted to assess the diagnostic accuracy of urinary dipstick testing in excluding catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with fever or hypothermia. METHODS: This was a prospective observational cohort study in a medical-surgical ICU. Patients with new-onset fever >38.3 °C or hypothermia <36 °C at least 48 h after urinary catheter insertion were included over a 2-year period. At each episode, a urinary dipstick test and a urine culture were performed as the criterion standard...
August 2014: Infection
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Pradeep Pankajakshan Nair, Vaibhav Wadwekar, Aditya Murgai, Sunil K Narayan
New onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) is a neurological emergency and difficult to treat condition. We report a case of involuntary movements resulting from thiopentone sodium infusion during the management of refractory status epilepticus. A young woman was admitted with fever and NORSE in the neurology intensive care unit. In addition to supportive measures, she was treated with intravenous lorazepam, phenytoin sodium, sodium valproate, midazolam and thiopentone sodium. While on thiopentone sodium, she developed involuntary twitches involving her upper limbs and face with EEG showing no evidence of ongoing status epilepticus...
2014: BMJ Case Reports
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