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Diagnostic Accuracy of Echo-planar Diffusion-weighted Imaging in the Diagnosis of Intra-cerebral Abscess by Taking Histopathological Findings as the Gold Standard

Cureus, 2019
Objective To determine the diagnostic accuracy of echo-planar diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in the diagnosis of intra-cerebral abscesses by taking histopathological findings as the gold standard.
H. Siddiqui, Sameera Vakil, Mariam Hassan   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nocardia cyriacigeorgica brain abscess in a patient on low dose steroids: a case report and review of the literature

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background Nocardia cyriacigeorgica was first described in 2001. It is an emerging pathogen that mainly affects immunocompromised patients. A brain abscess caused by N. cyriacigeorgica has been reported only in immunocompromised hosts.
Segev Gabay, Michal Yakubovsky, Ronen Ben-Ami, Rachel Grossman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ischaemic strokes in patients with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations and hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: associations with iron deficiency and platelets. [PDF]

, 2014
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, AD Kjeldsen, AE Guttmacher, AJ Easey, B Barzilai, B Nieswandt, Basel Chamali, BD Butler, BJ Folz, BM Silva, C Coupland, C Shovlin, CJ Gallione, CL Shovlin, CL Shovlin, CL Shovlin, CL Shovlin, CL Shovlin, CL Shovlin, CL Shovlin, CL Shovlin, Claire L. Shovlin, DW Johnson, E Buscarini, ER Chilvers, ER Weibel, F Roked, Gillian Angus, H Finnamore, Hannah C. Tighe, HL Devlin, IS Anand, J Feinstein, J Parra, J Remy, JA Dutton, JA Feinstein, JA Livesey, James E. Jackson, JE Van de Pette, JJ Mager, JL Hart, John A. Livesey, John Meek, K Clark, K Hara, K Nanthakumar, K Ono, K Zukotynski, KL Furie, Klaus Brusgaard, LC Weng, LS Valberg, M Bajc, M Billinger, M Blomley, M Moussouttas, M Nakayama, M Yeung, ME Faughnan, Michael A. Laffan, MK Whyte, MW van Gent, MW van Gent, OS AAssar, P Gazzaniga, P Gupta, P Shovlin CL, Wilmshurst, PC Hébert, RD Thompson, RF Gillum, Richard Manning, S Jackson, S Uchiyama, S Velthuis, SM Bang, T Krings, T Ueki, V Cottin, Vatshalan Santhirapala, WB Porter, Y Benjamini, Y Shinohara, Z Hao   +83 more
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Cerebral Abscess Associated With Odontogenic Bacteremias, Hypoxemia, and Iron Loading in Immunocompetent Patients With Right-to-Left Shunting Through Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2017
Summary In a UK series, 37 of 445 (8.3%) patients with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) experienced a cerebral abscess, often pre-PAVM diagnosis as first presentation.
E. J. Boother, S. Brownlow, H. Tighe, K. Bamford, J. Jackson, C. Shovlin   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Awake Craniotomy for Cerebral Abscess with Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation

Journal of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care, 2023
A cerebral abscess can be a life-threatening complication of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVM), thus posing significant morbidity if left untreated.
Saloni K. Shah, Anita Shetty, Dhairal Mehta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Screening of the central nervous system in children with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis [PDF]

, 2014
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Broenen, Emmi, Brüggemann, Roger, Kamphuis-van Ulzen, Karin, Mavinkurve-Groothuis, Annelies, Verweij, Paul, Warris, Adilia   +5 more
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Successful management of a cerebral abscess secondary to chronic cholesteatoma caused by Prevotella melaninogenica and Peptococcus anaerobius – A case report and literature review

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2016
Cerebral abscess following cholesteatomatous otomastoiditis is a life-threatening complication and poses diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. We report a case of life-threatening cerebritis and cerebral abscess due to a collection of pus from an ...
Carlo Gulì, Luigi Basile, Francesca Graziano, Paola Di Carlo, Domenico Gerardo Iacopino, Antonio Cascio, Rosario Maugeri   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Actinomycotic brain abscess [PDF]

, 2016
Actinomycosis is caused by Gram-positive filamentous anaerobic organisms of genus Actinomyces, which are commensals of mucosal membranes of the oropharyngeal cavity, and gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts.
Hasegawa, H, Mackinnon, A, Papadopoulos, M, Rahiminejad, M   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Isolated homonymous hemianopsia due to presumptive cerebral tubercular abscess as the initial manifestation of human immunodeficiency virus infection

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2012
We report a case of isolated homonymous hemianopsia due to presumptive cerebral tubercular abscess as the initial manifestation of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
Sujit Gharai, Pradeep Venkatesh, Anindita Sinha, Satpal Garg, Prapti Ghosh   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brain abscess following rituximab infusion in a patient with pemphigus vulgaris. [PDF]

, 2015
BackgroundImmunocompromised patients are at increased risk for developing meningitis or, rarely, brain abscess with opportunistic organisms like Listeria monocytogenes.Case reportA 52 year-old Saudi Arabian woman who was diagnosed with pemphigus vulgaris
Al-Harbi, Talal M, Al-Muammar, Shahad A, Ellis, Ronald J   +2 more
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