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Chronic Bilateral Calcified Subdural Empyema: An Unusual Complication of a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2020
Background and Importance: Subdural empyema is a rare complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunts. The ventriculoperitoneal shunt is a common technique used in the treatment of hydrocephalus.
Abdoulaye Diop, Mohameth Faye, Roger Ilunga Mulumba, Momar Codé Ba, Seydou Boubacar Badiane   +4 more
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Odontogenic Sinusitis Causing Invasive Aspergillosis niger Infection With Para‐Meningeal Abscess

Clinical Case Reports, Volume 13, Issue 4, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Invasive aspergillosis is considered to occur in patients with neutropenia and cellular immunodeficiency, but co‐infection with bacterial infections due to odontogenic infections is rare but possible. Diagnosis relies on culture and tissue examination as sensitivity to serum galactomannan antigen is low due to immunocompetence.
Kazuhiro Ishikawa, Nobuyoshi Mori
wiley   +1 more source

Spontaneous Subdural Empyema Following a High-Parasitemia Infection in a 58-Year-Old Female From a Malaria-Endemic Region

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2016
Malaria remains a significant public health problem of the tropical world. Falciparum malaria is most prevalent in the sub-Saharan African region, which harbors about 90% of all malaria cases and fatalities globally.
Pedro Pallangyo MD, MPH, Frederick Lyimo MD, Paulina Nicholaus MD, Ulimbakisya Kain MD, Mohamed Janabi MD, PhD   +4 more
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Epidemiology of diagnostic errors in pediatric emergency departments using electronic triggers

Academic Emergency Medicine, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 226-245, March 2025.
Abstract Objectives We applied three electronic triggers to study frequency and contributory factors of missed opportunities for improving diagnosis (MOIDs) in pediatric emergency departments (EDs): return visits within 10 days resulting in admission (Trigger 1), care escalation within 24 h of ED presentation (Trigger 2), and death within 24 h of ED ...
Prashant Mahajan, Emily White, Kathy Shaw, Sarah J. Parker, James Chamberlain, Richard M. Ruddy, Elizabeth R. Alpern, Jacqueline Corboy, Andrew Krack, Brandon Ku, Daphne Morrison Ponce, Asha S. Payne, Elizabeth Freiheit, Gregor Horvath, Giselle Kolenic, Michele Carney, Nicole Klekowski, Karen J. O'Connell, Hardeep Singh   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brain abscess secondary to frontal osteomyelitis Abscesso cerebral secundário à osteomielite frontal

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2006
Frontal osteomyelitis is a rare complication of sinusitis. Common intracranial complications of the frontal osteomyelitis are meningitis, epidural empyema, subdural empyema and brain abscess.
Felipe Francisco Tuon, Rachel Russo, Antonio Carlos Nicodemo   +2 more
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Arachnoid cyst with bony erosion of the posterior frontal sinus wall as cause of a subdural empyema after pansinusitis

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2020
Intracranial arachnoid cysts (AC) can lead to a bony thinning of the surrounding skull. We present a young man, in whom a frontal AC has caused a thinning of the frontal calvaria and of the posterior wall of the frontal sinus.
Holger Schlag, Christoph Hoffmann, Jens Castein, Jonathan Neuhoff, Frank Kandziora   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Subdural Empyema Caused by Brucellosis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Mediterranean Journal of Infection, Microbes and Antimicrobials
Neurobrucellosis is a rare and challenging complication of brucellosis. Its non-specific clinical presentation makes it challenging to diagnose. The coexistence of neurobrucellosis with subdural empyema is extremely rare, with only a few cases reported ...
Bilal Bahadır AKBULUT, Anıl EROL, Mustafa Serdar BÖLÜK, Taşkın YURTSEVEN, Cenk ERASLAN, Bilgin ARDA, Hüseyin BİÇEROĞLU   +6 more
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A Rare Cause of Calcified Subdural Empyema and Ventriculitis in a Pediatric Patient: Achromobacter Denitrificans

Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology, 2016
Intracranial infections in the pediatric age group are still important causes of morbidity in developing countries. A 2-year-old male patient presented with acute onset of seizures and loss of consciousness to our emergency department with a past history
Mehtap Beker-Acay, Mehmet Gazi Boyaci, Gulsah Asik, Resit Koken, Ebru Unlu, Usame Rakip   +5 more
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Human Genetic GLUT1 Deficiency Results in Impaired T Cellular IFN‐γ Production

European Journal of Immunology, Volume 55, Issue 2, February 2025.
GLUT1 deficiency prevents glucose uptake in T cells resulting in lower intracellular ATP generation and IFNy production.
Renske de Jong, Anandhi Rajendiran, Judit Turyne Hriczko, Sudheendra Hebbar Subramanyam, Alina Rein, Martin Häusler, Thorsten Orlikowsky, Norbert Wagner, Daniel Erny, Kim Ohl, Klaus Tenbrock   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subdural empyema : a clinical study

, 2017
Subdural empyema is a relatively rare condition that carries a high mortality if not treated adequately. The experience at Groote Schuur Hospital over 8 years from 1979 to 1986 was reviewed. 47 cases of subdural empyema following on contiguous or distant
Bok, Arnold Pierre Louis
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