Initiation of Antiseizure Medications in Patients With Brain Abscess. [PDF]
Nielsen VM +3 more
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Background Brain abscess due to the Nocardia genus is rare and usually found in immunocompromised patients. The most common subtype implicated is Nocardia farcinica while brain abscess due to Nocardia brasiliensis is comparatively rare.
Jian-Wei Zhu +4 more
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A case of radiation induced delayed brain necrosis associated with bacterial brain abscess is reported. A 50-year-old Japanese man with adenoid cystic carcinoma underwent carbon ion radiotherapy and the cancer disappeared on MRI one year later.
Masanori Kurimoto +4 more
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We report on a brain abscess in an immunocompetent man caused by Cladophialophora bantiana, a black mold known to prefer the brain for abscess-formations with a mortality rate up to 65%.
Li-Anne Schweizer +3 more
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Case report on successful treatment for brain abscess in a Japanese monkey (Macaca fuscata)
Background A brain abscess in human beings is a focal infection of the central nervous system frequently characterized by areas of localized cerebritis and central necrosis surrounded by a well vascularized capsule. A brain abscess, although sporadically
Tohru Kimura
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Brain abscess in solid organ transplant recipients receiving cyclosporine-based immunosuppression [PDF]
Objective: To determine the incidence, clinical presentation, and outcome and confounding factors associated with the development of a brain abscess in solid organ transplant recipients. Design: A 14-year retrospective survey.
Fung, J +6 more
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Community acquired Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) positive Methicilin Resistant Staphylococcal aureus cerebral abscess in an 11-month old boy: a case study. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Brain abscess are uncommon childhood infection. Brain abscess caused by Panton-Valentine Leukocidin positive Community acquired Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcal aureus have never been reported in the United Kingdom.
Fellows, Greg +7 more
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Ischaemic strokes in patients with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations and hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: associations with iron deficiency and platelets. [PDF]
BackgroundPulmonary first pass filtration of particles marginally exceeding ∼7 µm (the size of a red blood cell) is used routinely in diagnostics, and allows cellular aggregates forming or entering the circulation in the preceding cardiac cycle to lodge ...
AD Kjeldsen +83 more
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A Fatal Sinogenic Brain Abscess in Pregnancy: Case Report and Review of Literature
Cerebral abscess is an extremely rare complication of pregnancy. Among reported cases of pregnancy brain abscess, most patients have shown a good neurologic outcome.
Reza Bahrami, Hossein Safari
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Brain Abcess due to Cladophialophora bantiana: first case in Portugal [PDF]
Clinical case reporting a brain abscess caused by Cladophialophora bantiana in an male patient with 56 years old. This is a rare case of a brain abscess caused by this species. Few cases have been reported in the literature world-wide, being this one the
Brizido, H. +6 more
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