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Odynophagia in an Immunocompromised Patient

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 2022
Abstract Our article presents a case of Herpes Simplex esophagitis in an immunocompromised patient who presented with severe odynophagia on a background of Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma. Our patient's clinical history and examination findings initially suggest a likely fungal etiology for esophagitis, however as the case develops the diagnosis of ...
Nadia, Saliba, Minnie, Au, Ross, Apostolov   +2 more
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Lymphoma in the immunocompromised

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2010
Lymphomas occur with a greatly increased frequency among immunocompromised individuals regardless of whether the immunodeficiency is congenital, acquired as a result of HIV infection or iatrogenic as a result of anti-rejection therapy in allograft recipients. This article focuses on the differences in clinical management of these lymphomas.
Ailsa, Sita-Lumsden, Philippa, Harris, Mark, Bower   +2 more
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Candidemia in Immunocompromised Patients

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1992
This study reviews data on patients with fungemia and confirms the high prevalence (50%) of infections caused by non-albicans species of Candida. Fungemia due to C. albicans or Torulopsis glabrata occurred significantly more often in patients with a solid tumor, while fungemia due to Candida tropicalis or Candida krusei was significantly more common in
Meunier, Françoise, Aoun, Michel, Bitar, Nizar   +2 more
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The immunocompromised traveller

British Medical Bulletin, 1993
Increasing numbers of immunocompromised people are travelling abroad to areas where the risks of some infections are increased. HIV positive people respond reasonably well to most vaccines when asymptomatic but response is less predictable when symptomatic disease is present.
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Enterocolitis in immunocompromised patients

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology, 2014
Diarrhea is a very common complaint among immunocompromised patients, and the most common causes of this and other gastrointestinal complaints in this population differ from those commonly seen in immunocompetent patients. Underlying immunodeficiencies may be associated with particular patterns of gastrointestinal tract injury, and particular ...
Keith K, Lai, Laura W, Lamps
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The Immunocompromised Host

Dermatologic Clinics, 1989
Infection still remains the most common immediate cause of death in the immunocompromised host. Because of the decreased host defenses leading not only to an increased susceptibility to a variety of opportunistic pathogens (in particular the fungi) but also to a decreased host inflammatory response and resultant clinical findings, infections in these ...
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Immunization of immunocompromised persons

Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America, 2003
Advances in medicine, science, and technology have led to increasing numbers of people in the general population with altered host defenses. The risk for clinical infection in an immunocompromised host, such as a person who has received a solid organ transplant, is determined largely by the interaction between two factors: the epidemiologic exposures ...
David J, Weber, William A, Rutala
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Rash in an Immunocompromised Patient

JAMA, 2012
A 48-YEAR-OLD MAN WITH LOW-RISK ACUTE PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (APL) undergoes induction chemotherapy with daily all-trans retinoic acid (tretinoin), cytarabine (days 1-7), and daunorubicin (days 1-3). His clinical course is complicated by low-grade fever and a rash on day 15.
Javier, Munoz, Philip, Kuriakose
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Tumors of the Immunocompromised Patient

Annual Review of Medicine, 1988
Immunocompromised patients are prone to develop certain malignancies, particularly involving cells of the immune system itself (1-3). In this chapter we describe the various neoplasms, note the differences between these and similar cancers in the general population, emphasize similar tumor patterns in different types of immunodeficiency, and discuss ...
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Typhlitis in an Immunocompromised Patient

Acta Chirurgica Belgica, 2002
We report the case of a young man who presented with right lower quadrant pain, while being treated for acute lymphatic leukaemia. Clinical findings were suggestive of appendicitis. Computed tomography scan of the abdomen was done and showed the presence of a neutropenic enterocolitis or typhlitis.
S, De Laere, J J, De Waele, B, De Hemptinne   +2 more
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