Miiasi umana: Caso clinico

Íleo biliar: caso clinico

Biliary ileusis a uncommon cause of mechanical bowel obstruction, affecting older adult patients who often have other significant medical conditions. It is caused by intestinal impaction of a gallstone that enters the bowel via a cholecysto-enteric fistula. The mortality rate is considerable, ranging between 12 and 27%. Treatment in most cases is surgical, aimed at the resolution of the intesti...

Lipoma of the larynx: a case report Lipoma della laringe: un caso clinico

lipoma is a benign tumour of mesenchymal origin with a very rare occurrence in the upper aero-digestive tract. To date, approximately 100 cases have been described in the literature. This lesion has a slow growth and, therefore, can present with various symptoms due to the mass effect with obstruction and compression on neighbouring structures, including dysphagia for liquid and solid food, dys...

Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease with psychiatric onset: a case report Malattia di Creutzfeldt-Jacob con presentazione psichiatrica: un caso clinico

Case report We describe the case of an elderly female patient who presented with psychotic symptoms in the absence of neurological signs and symptoms, and after systematic diagnostic evaluation eventually turned out to be a sporadic CJD case. Conclusions In clinical practice CJD should not be neglected as differential diagnosis in elderly patients with negative psychiatric history referring to ...

Caso clínico

We describe the case of a 37-year-old pregnant woman who presented at 29 weeks of gestation with syncope and shortness of breath caused by pulmonary embolism. Due to persistent hypotension thrombolytic therapy with tenecteplase was administered and the clinical and hemodynamic response was excellent, with no maternal or fetal hemorrhagic complications. The clinical presentation of pulmonary emb...

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