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Incidentally Detected Celiac Disease with Splenomegaly on 18F FDG PET/CT: A Potential Lymphoma Mimic [PDF]
Asia Oceania Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Biology, 2021 Celiac disease is an immune-mediated disorder triggered by hypersensitivity to gluten occurring in genetically susceptible individuals. A high-index of suspicion is needed for diagnosis as patients can be asymptomatic or present with atypical symptoms or
Ananya Panda +5 more
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Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology, 2020 Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with specific genetic abnormalities is a clinically, biologically, and prognostically distinct category with some of the entities in it displaying characteristic morphology.
Pragya Singh +3 more
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Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2021 Background and Objectives: To determine whether the persistence of splenomegaly characteristic of the Asian haplotype of homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease is associated with continued splenic function, a comparison of patients from Odisha, India, and ...
Beryl Serjeant +2 more
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PRIMARY BILIARY CHOLANGITIS DIAGNOSIS IN A SERONEGATIVE 19-YEAR-OLD WOMAN [PDF]
Euromediterranean Biomedical Journal, 2023 Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is an autoimmune disease that destroys small bile ducts, culminating in liver failure. It typically affects middle-aged, Caucasian women. Most cases have detectable antimitochondrial antibodies.
Sara Santos
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Clinical presentation of splenomegaly at Kigali University Teaching Hospital, Rwanda - A retrospective descriptive study [PDF]
Rwanda Medical Journal, 2020 INTRODUCTION: Splenomegaly is a common condition in malaria endemic region and is frequently associated with cytopenias. Splenomegaly is usually a clinical finding, but imaging studies have helped to assess for or confirm it.
E. Nkusi +7 more
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Management of Massive Splenomegaly [PDF]
Clinical Case Reports, 2021 57-year-old man presented with a 3-month history of fatigue, fever and increasing abdominal pain.He had completed treatment for follicular lymphoma and JAK2 positive myeloproliferative disorder 2 months previously. This case demonstrates therapeutic and diagnostic rationale for open splenectomy in, to our knowledge, one of the largest recorded ...
Hudson, Victoria E +2 more
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Splenomegaly in Children and Adolescents
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2021 In contrast to other lymphoid tissues making up the immune system, the spleen as its biggest organ is directly linked into the blood circulation. Beside its main task to filter out microorganism, proteins, and overaged or pathologically altered blood ...
Meinolf Suttorp +2 more
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Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2005 Radiotherapy for massive, symptomatic splenomegaly has been used in a palliative setting since the early 1990’s. Massive splenomegaly may be seen in CML, CLL, hairy cell leukemia and splenic marginal zone lymphomas, prolymphocytic leukemia ...
Hemendra Mod +3 more
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Prediction of esophagogastric varices associated with oxaliplatin administration
JGH Open, 2021 Background Oxaliplatin is a key drug for the chemotherapy of colorectal cancer; however, it is also known to cause non‐cirrhotic portal hypertension. We aimed to identify the characteristics of patients who developed esophagogastric varices (EGVs) after ...
Yosuke Satta +18 more
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Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman +4 more
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