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Acute appendicitis presenting with MIS-C secondary to COVID-19

Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2022
Acute Appendicitis (AA) is among the most common causes of abdominal pain in children. Several physical exam findings, scoring systems, and imaging studies, such as ultrasonography and computed tomography, exist to assist clinicians in diagnosing acute ...
Amanda Sturgill, Rachael Cannon, Shivani Patel, Andrea Horbey, Raymond Chua, Dilsa Souffrant, Stephanie Davenport   +6 more
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The Relationship Between Diagnosis Of Acute Appendicitis And Leukocytosis Laboratory Results In The General Hospital Of Muhammadiyah Malang Period 2016-2017

Saintika Medika, 2020
In making the diagnosis in patients with symptoms that are not typical, the doctor needs to do a supporting examination, one of which is an examination of leukocytes count.
Mochamad Aleq Sander
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Managing acute appendicitis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jiaxing, China

World Journal of Clinical Cases, 2020
BACKGROUND Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic and has had a profound impact on our routine surgical activities. Acute appendicitis is the most common abdominal emergency worldwide.
Yuan Zhou, L. Cen
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Evaluation of the systemic immune inflammation index and the systemic inflammatory response index as new markers for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in children

Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2023
BACKGROUND: Abdominal pain is a common and non-specific symptom in children. It is important to be able to distinguish the source of abdominal pain before surgery.
Fatma Özcan Siki, Mehmet Sarıkaya, Metin Gunduz, Tamer Sekmenli, Muslu Kazim Korez, Ilhan Ciftci   +5 more
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Efficacy, Safety, Pharmacokinetics, and Immunogenicity of ABBV‐154 in Adults With Glucocorticoid‐Dependent Polymyalgia Rheumatica: A Phase 2, Randomized, Double‐Blind, Placebo‐Controlled Trial

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective An unmet need exists for glucocorticoid‐sparing treatments for patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). The antibody‐drug conjugate ABBV‐154 comprises adalimumab conjugated to a glucocorticoid receptor modulator. We evaluated ABBV‐154 versus placebo in patients with glucocorticoid‐dependent PMR.
Robert F. Spiera, Valerie Devauchelle‐Pensec, Claire E. Owen, Federico Díaz‐González, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Edit Drescher, Jaclyn Anderson, Dilek Arikan, Ronilda D'Cunha, Julie Parmentier, Denise T. Kruzikas, Weihan Zhao, Yang Yang, Karen Stellpflug, Frank Buttgereit   +14 more
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Acute sets [PDF]

arXiv, 2017
A set of points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is acute, if any three points from this set form an acute angle. In this note we construct an acute set in $\mathbb{R}^d$ of size at least $2^{d/2}$.
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Premature Mortality in Patients With Anorexia Nervosa: A Matched Cohort Study of Cause of Death

International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To determine the extent to which anorexia nervosa is associated with premature mortality. Method We carried out a matched cohort study of 7332 male and female patients with anorexia nervosa and 73,215 patient controls who were admitted between 1989 and 2023 in hospital centers of Quebec, Canada. We tracked the patients longitudinally
Nathalie Auger, Mimi Israël, Howard Steiger, Nancy Low, Nicholas Chadi, Émilie Brousseau, Aimina Ayoub, Gabriel Côté‐Corriveau   +7 more
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Status non‐epilepticus

Epileptic Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Status non‐epilepticus is characterized by recurrent or prolonged psychogenic non‐epileptic seizures (PNES), which are often mistaken for status epilepticus (SE). This study focuses on the misdiagnosis of convulsive SE in patients whose seizures were of psychogenic origin.
Ronen Spierer, Moshe Herskovitz
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Five-Year Follow-up of Antibiotic Therapy for Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis in the APPAC Randomized Clinical Trial

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2018
Importance Short-term results support antibiotics as an alternative to surgery for treating uncomplicated acute appendicitis, but long-term outcomes are not known.
P. Salminen, R. Tuominen, H. Paajanen, T. Rautio, P. Nordström, M. Aarnio, T. Rantanen, S. Hurme, J. Mecklin, J. Sand, J. Virtanen, A. Jartti, J. Grönroos   +12 more
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Learning curve and period of experience required for the competent diagnosis of acute appendicitis using abdominal computed tomography: a prospective observational study [PDF]

Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2017
Objective To assess the learning curve of novice residents in diagnosing acute appendicitis using abdominal computed tomography (CT) scans. Methods This prospective observational study was conducted within a 4-month period from March 1 to June 30, 2015 ...
Ju-Hyun Song, Hajin Cho, Jong-Hak Park, Sungwoo Moon, Joo Yeong Kim, Su-Jin Kim, Sung-Hyuk Choi   +6 more
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