Biomarkers of Inflammation and Fibrosis in Kawasaki Disease Patients Years After Initial Presentation With Low Ejection Fraction. [PDF]
Background Coronary artery aneurysms and myocarditis are well-recognized complications of Kawasaki disease (KD) but no systematic evaluation of the consequences of myocarditis has been performed in the subset presenting with low ejection fraction (EF ...
Burns, Jane C +5 more
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Differences in clinicopathologic variables between Borrelia C6 antigen seroreactive and Borrelia C6 seronegative glomerulopathy in dogs. [PDF]
BackgroundRapidly progressive glomerulonephritis has been described in dogs that seroreact to Borrelia burgdorferi, but no studies have compared clinicopathologic differences in Lyme-seroreactive dogs with protein-losing nephropathy (PLN) versus dogs ...
Goldstein RE +6 more
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Mycoplasma pneumonia : an unusual cause of acute myocarditis in childhood [PDF]
Mycoplasma pneumoniae is primarily a respiratory pathogen but may affect exhibit a diverse range of presentations from asymptomatic infection to life threatening conditions. Myocarditis of varying severity is an unusual complication.
Bailey, Mark +4 more
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Coxsackie B2 Virus Infection Causing Multiorgan Failure and Cardiogenic Shock in a 42-Year-Old Man [PDF]
Infections from coxsackie B2 viruses often cause viral myocarditis and, only rarely, multisystem organ impairment. We present the unusual case of a 42-year-old man in whom coxsackie B2 virus infection caused multiorgan infection, necessitating distal ...
Abdou, Mahmoud H. +2 more
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Culture Positive Brucella Endocarditis in a Case of Baloon Mitral Valvotomy [PDF]
Brucella endocarditis is a rare condition which occurs as a focal complication in chronic brucellosis cases. We report a rare brucella endocarditis case in a RVHD patient. A 26 years old male was admitted with fever on off for almost one year.
Aundhkar, S, Ghorpade, MV, Pawar, SK
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Managing toxicities associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: consensus recommendations from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Toxicity Management Working Group. [PDF]
Cancer immunotherapy has transformed the treatment of cancer. However, increasing use of immune-based therapies, including the widely used class of agents known as immune checkpoint inhibitors, has exposed a discrete group of immune-related adverse ...
Abdallah, K. +80 more
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Lyme carditis and neuroborreliosis [PDF]
The 3 cases presented in the Practice section of the May 25, 2020, issue of CMAJ provide an informative discussion of the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme carditis and neuroborreliosis in a tertiary care centre.[1][1]–[3][2] I am a retired Ontario pediatrician and coroner, having practised for ...
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ABSTRACT Background and Aims Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains a significant public health burden in low‐ and middle‐income countries, particularly in sub‐Saharan Africa. Although socioeconomic factors contribute to disease persistence, genetic susceptibility plays a critical role in determining progression from Group A Streptococcal infection to ...
Hussam Alkhalifamohamed +3 more
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Background: Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) with carditis can lead to the development of rheumatic heart disease in children and young adults. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the manifestations of rheumatic carditis, clinically significant ...
Araya Kaewpechsanguan +8 more
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We showed that in children with carditis against the background of CMV infection a violation of autonomic regulation in the form of tension of functioning of sympathetic autonomic nervous system, manifested by decreased activity of the parasympathetic ...
T. V. Borysenko
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