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Resolution of Thyroid Acropachy in a Patient Treated With Teprotumumab: A Case Report and Review of Mechanisms

Case Reports in Endocrinology, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Graves’ disease is an autoimmune thyroidopathy associated with hyperthyroidism and nonendocrine manifestations such as thyroid eye disease (TED), pretibial myxedema, and thyroid acropachy. Thyroid acropachy is an uncommon but debilitating condition, typically characterized by digital clubbing, soft tissue swelling, and periosteal new bone formation in ...
Soumya Chatterjee, Toshihiro Kita
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The History of Bancroftian Lymphatic Filariasis in Australasia and Oceania: Is There a Threat of Re-Occurrence in Mainland Australia?

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2018
Lymphatic filariasis (LF) infects an estimated 120 million people worldwide, with a further 856 million considered at risk of infection and requiring preventative chemotherapy.
Catherine A. Gordon, Malcolm K. Jones, Donald P. McManus   +2 more
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Burden assessment of podoconiosis in Wayu Tuka woreda, east Wollega zone, western Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study [PDF]

, 2016
Objective Podoconiosis is a neglected tropical disease characterised by a slowly progressive swelling of the foot and lower leg. It is prevalent among subsistence barefoot farmers who live and work in highland areas of the tropics.
Amberbir, Tsige, Bekele, Kenate, Davey, Gail, Deribe, Kebede, Samuel, Abdi, Tadele, Geleta   +5 more
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Lymphatic Filariasis Control in Tanzania: Effect of Six Rounds of Mass Drug Administration with Ivermectin and Albendazole on Infection and Transmission. [PDF]

, 2013
Control of lymphatic filariasis (LF) in most countries of sub-Saharan Africa is based on annual mass drug administration (MDA) with a combination of ivermectin and albendazole, in order to interrupt transmission. We present findings from a detailed study
C Chaccour, DJ Tisch, DW Meyrowitsch, DW Meyrowitsch, DW Meyrowitsch, E Michael, E Michael, E Michael, EM Pedersen, Erling M Pedersen, FO Richards, GJ Weil, GJ Weil, GJ Weil, H Joseph, HM Joseph, JD King, JE McMahon, JE McMahon, JL Liang, JM Mlandonicky, KC Kobylinski, KD Ramaiah, KY Won, LM Zeldenryk, M Parker, MN Malecela, Mwele N Malecela, N Kolstrup, O Mitja, Paul E Simonsen, PE Simonsen, PE Simonsen, PE Simonsen, PE Simonsen, PE Simonsen, PE Simonsen, PE Simonsen, PE Simonsen, PE Simonsen, PJ Hotez, RMR Ramzy, RT Rwegoshora, Stephen M Magesa, WHO, WHO, William N Kisinza, YA Derua, Yahya A Derua   +48 more
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Left Ulnar Artery Pseudoaneurysm and Left Hand Swelling Simulated by Elephantiasis in a Patient with Neurofibromatosis Type 1

Journal of Medical Ultrasound, 2017
Elephantiasis is a condition featured by gross enlargement of body parts to massive proportions. Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a multisystem genetic disorder. Vascular anomaly is one among the complications of NF1.
Ta-Pin Lee, Yi-Hong Chou, Chui-Mei Tiu
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Evidence for the exacerbation of lymphedema of geochemical origin, podoconiosis, by onchocerciasis

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2009
Summary: The study was conducted to investigate a variation in the distribution of endemic elephantiasis previously determined to be of geochemical origin in three neighbouring and essentially homogenous villages, Bambili, Bambui and Finge of the Bambui ...
Fidelis Cho-Ngwa, Alfred Ngwa Amambua, Melvin Anyasi Ambele, Vincent P.K. Titanji   +3 more
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Urban Lymphatic Filariasis in the Metropolis of\ud Dar es Salaam, Tanzania [PDF]

, 2013
The last decades have seen a considerable increase in urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa, and it is estimated that over 50% of the population will live in urban areas by 2040.
Malecela, Mwelecele N, Mosha, Franklin W, Mwakitalu, Mbutolwe E, Pedersen, Erling M, Simonsen, Paul E   +4 more
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Chronic Idiopathic Penile Edema: Three Cases and a Review of the Literature [PDF]

, 2011
peer reviewedAbstract: Chronic idiopathic penile edema (CIPE) is an exceptional entity with disabling persistent lymphedema of the penis, affecting accessorily the scrotum and the pubis.
Andrianne, Robert, FAILLA, Valérie, FILLET, Marc, NIKKELS, Arjen, RATY, Laurent, Waltregny, David   +5 more
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Elephantiasis and verrucous lesions in an Ethiopian man living in Italy

Journal of Infection and Public Health
Elephantiasis refers to chronic, severe lymphedema caused by the abnormal accumulation of interstitial fluid due to reduced lymph transport and lymph stasis.
Benedetta Rossi, Federica Gottardi, Diego Segala, Claudia Zambelli, Stefano Iannazzi, Alberto Matteelli   +5 more
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Prevalence survey of filariasis in two villages in Chingleput district of Tamil Nadu [PDF]

, 1987
A baseline survey of filariasis was conducted in two endemic villages in Chingleput district of Tamil Nadu, to obtain the prevalence rate of microfilaraemia and that of clinical filarial disease along with its various clinical patterns.
Mayurnath, S, Narayanan, P R, Radhamani, M P, Sarma, R V S N, Tripathy, S P, Vallishayee , R S   +5 more
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