Can Shear Wave Elastography Help Differentiate Acute Tonsillitis from Normal Tonsils in Pediatric Patients: A Prospective Preliminary Study [PDF]
Children, 2023 Shear wave elastography (SWE) is a non-invasive imaging technique used to quantify the elasticity/stiffness of any tissue. There are normative SWE studies on tonsils in healthy children in the literature.
Bunyamin Ece, Sonay Aydin
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Implementing criteria-led discharge for acute admissions to facilitate the elective recovery from COVID-19: an example in acute tonsillitis [PDF]
BMJ Open Quality, 2023 Background Healthcare systems face unprecedented numbers of patients waiting for elective treatments in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitals must urgently optimise patient pathways and build capacity to meet the populations health needs. Criteria-
Huw Jones +3 more
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Acute Tonsillitis Due To Monkeypox. [PDF]
J Emerg Med, 2023 The emerging 2022 human mpox virus outbreak has presented with unique disease manifestations challenging prior case definitions.We present a case of a 42-year-old transgender woman with human immunodeficiency virus controlled on antiretroviral therapy, presenting with sore throat, who, after three emergency department visits, was found to have acute ...
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Uncommon association: Pseudomonas luteola bacteremia in an immunocompetent individual with acute tonsillitis – A case report [PDF]
IDCases, 2023 Pseudomonas luteola, formerly known as Chryseomonas luteola, is an infrequently encountered aerobic gram-negative bacterium. While it has been identified as a potential human bacterial pathogen, its connection to specific clinical conditions remains ...
Sirine Ahmad +2 more
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The human oral cavity microbiota composition during acute tonsillitis: a cross-sectional survey [PDF]
BMC Oral Health, 2019 Background Microbial culture-based investigations of inflamed tonsil tissues have previously indicated enrichment of several microorganisms such as Streptococcus, Staphylococcus and Prevotella.
Yun Kit Yeoh +7 more
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Iraqi Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2022 Inflammation of the tonsils could be described as acute tonsillitis, mainly due to infection. Recurrent tonsillitis could be defined as 3-7 episodes during the first 3 years of age.
Zainab Alhakeem +3 more
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The Shift of Bacterial Sensitivity with Antibiotics in Acute Tonsillitis
Journal of Nobel Medical College, 2021 Background: The infection of tonsil may occur primarily or secondarily as a result of upper respiratory tract infection, usually preceded by a viral infection. Bacterial tonsillitis is most commonly caused by Streptococcus pyogenes.
Brihaspati Sigdel
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Oral microbiota in children with acute tonsillitis
Biomedical and Biotechnology Research Journal, 2021 Background: More recently, the human oral microbiota has attracted attention in epidemiological research on health and disease. Against this background, changes in the oral microbiota in acute diseases of the upper respiratory tract are of interest in ...
Shokhida Tolkunovna Turdieva +1 more
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Revisiting The Value of Anti-streptolysin O Titer in Children with Rheumatic Fever [PDF]
Pediatric Sciences Journal, 2022 Background: Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease are the significant non-suppurative late sequelae of group A beta hemolytic streptococcal infection.
Mohamed S. Eid +4 more
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ACUTE TONSILLITIS ON THE PEDIATRIC DISTRICT: ETIOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
Педиатрическая фармакология, 2015 Relevance. Acute tonsillitis is one of the most prevalent infectious diseases in children starting from the 6th month of live. Acute tonsillitis is more often triggered by viri rather than bacteria.
E. N. Cherkasova, T. A. Kuznetsova
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