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Tissue‐retained needles in people who inject drugs: A systematic review of case reports and series on clinical presentations, complications and management

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Tissue‐retained needles from intravenous drug use can cause rare but severe complications, ranging from local to systemic infections to needle embolization. Due to the limited evidence and the lack of epidemiological studies on the issue, we systematically reviewed the literature focusing on case reports and case series on ...
Heidi Laukkala, Anna Nevalainen, Irina Rinta‐Kiikka, Samuel Heikkilä, Sisu Kiuru, Markku Sumanen, Otso Arponen, Olli Nevalainen   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Catheter-related gas-forming suppurative thrombophlebitis

International Journal of Emergency Medicine
Catheter-related suppurative thrombophlebitis (CRST) is a complication of catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI). The microbiology of CRST is similar with the microbiology of CRBSI, but Clostridium perfringens that causes gas gangrene is a rare ...
Yasuyoshi Miyamura, Takeshi Shimazaki, Kunihiko Okada   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Idiopathic Mondor's Disease of the Breast in an Outpatient Primary Care Center: A Case Report

Iatreia
Introduction: Mondor's Disease (MD) is a thrombophlebitis of the anterolateral chest wall, with only about 400 cases reported worldwide, predominantly in women.
Castro-Goyes, Daniel Fernando, Cepeda-Trillos, Andrea Carolina   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Oral Health Care Services, Barriers and Enablers to Maintaining Good Oral Health in Motor Neurone Disease: A Scoping Review

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives The objective of this scoping review was to map existing literature on oral health and related care in individuals with Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Specifically, the review aimed to identify barriers and facilitators to maintaining oral hygiene, summarise available clinical guidelines and patient‐facing resources, and examine how ...
Mariam A. Khokhar, Lucy A. O'Malley, Anne‐Marie Glenny, Xiaohui Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Less than 28 Days of Intravenous Antibiotic Treatment Is Sufficient for Suppurative Thrombophlebitis in Injection Drug Users [PDF]

, 2017
Data about the required duration of intravenous therapy for suppurative thrombophlebitis is lacking. Among 36 episodes of proven suppurative thrombophlebitis requiring hospital admission, no relapses occurred when treatment was given for >7 days ...
Battega, Manuel, Fluckiger, Ursula, Khanlari, Bettina, Mertz, Dominik, Viktorin, Nina   +4 more
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Short‐Term Complications Are Rare After Cholesteatoma Surgery

Clinical Otolaryngology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the incidence and nature of short‐term complications following cholesteatoma surgery in a heterogeneous cohort. Design A retrospective cohort study including complete coverage of cholesteatoma surgery in a Swedish region between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2015.
Agnes Modée Borgström, Cecilia Engmér Berglin, Johan Knutsson, Åsa Bonnard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Septic Thrombophlebitis of the Cephalic Vein Caused by a Peripherally Inserted Venous Catheter

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2005
Septic thrombophlebitis of a vein is a rare but life-threatening complication of an intravascular (IV) catheter placed percutaneously in the veins. Most published clinical experiences with IV catheters, mainly in the outpatient settings, have reported ...
M Mirmohammadsadeghi, O Aghadavoudi
doaj  

A Rare and Dangerous Combination of COVID-19, Lemierre Syndrome, and Carotid Pseudoaneurysm: A Case Report

Vascular Specialist International
Lemierre syndrome is a rare complication of oropharyngeal infection that causes septic thrombophlebitis in the internal jugular vein. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, this condition has been dangerously overlooked and poses an even greater ...
Panagitsa Christoforou, Costas Constantinou, Christos Kounnos, Konstantinos Kapoulas, Marios Salloumis, Georgios Pantelas, Linos Hadjihannas   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enterococcus casseliflavus Bacteraemia in a Patient with Chronic Renal Disease

Infectious Disease Reports, 2020
Enterococcus casseliflavus is a rare pathogen that usually causes urinary tract and abdominal infections. Its main characteristics are positive motility, yellow colonies and constitutive low-level resistance to vancomycin.
Alexandra Vasilakopoulou, Sophia Vourli, Nikolaos Siafakas, Dimitra Kavatha, Nikolaos Tziolos, Spyros Pournaras   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Same site recurrence following standardized high ligation and stripping of the great saphenous vein – 5‐year results of the LaVaCro trial

JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.
Summary Background Same‐site recurrence at the sapheno‐femoral junction (SFJ) takes up a large amount of the daily practice of phlebologists. Follow‐up data for high‐ligation and stripping (HL/S) of the great saphenous vein (GSV) are quite heterogenous and incoherent.
Thomas Hummel, Georgios Papapostolou, Margit Broermann, Christoph Dresler, Ingo Flessenkämper, Michael Jünger, Dietmar Stenger, Dominic Mühlberger, Yazad Sidhwa, Thomas Falkenstein, Markus Stücker, Achim Mumme   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source