Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease is a rare, benign, and self-limiting condition that mostly affects young females. Cervical lymphadenopathy with fever is the most common presentation of the disease. It may have unusual presentations that can lead to diagnostic dilemma and delay in diagnosis. We report a case of a 25-year-old female who presented with relapsing fever and cervical lymphadenopathy. Becaus...

We report a patient with necrotising scleritis in whom infliximab was used for short-term steroid-sparing while rituximab took effect. This enabled disease control without requiring an extended period of high-dose corticosteroid administration or the concurrent use of cyclophosphamide.

Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) continue to be a major public health concern. A number of epidemiologically relevant HAI microorganisms are multidrug-resistant (MDR) germs that can spread rapidly and/or carry multiple resistance to antibiotics. They are the cause of high mortality and possible nosocomial epidemics. For this reason, we implemented microbiological surveillance acquiring sa...

Two cases of Kikuchi disease showed variable nodal enhancing features, including homogeneous enhancement and focal or extensive nodal necrosis on contrast-enhanced CT scans. At MR imaging, the area of central necrosis was isointense or hypointense on T1-weighted images and had a lower signal than nonnecrotic areas on T2-weighted images. The CT appearance of Kikuchi disease can be variable and c...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to compare different control charts to monitor the nosocomial infection rate per 1,000 patient-days. METHODS The control charts considered in this study were the traditional Shewhart chart and a variation of this, the Cumulative Sum and Exponentially Weighted Moving Average charts. RESULTS We evaluated 238 nosocomial infections that were registered in the intensive...

Myocarditis is an uncommon condition encompassing a spectrum from asymptomatic cases to fulminant heart failure. Acute fulminant myocarditis is characterised by severe haemodynamic compromise often necessitating circulatory support. The diagnosis and management of myocarditis remains challenging with uncertainty surrounding the role of immunosuppression therapy. We describe a case of biopsy-pro...

BACKGROUND Cause for gastroenteritis range from viral, bacterial to parasitic pathogens. Rapid Multiplexing techniques like ProGastro_SSCS and xTAG_GPP can detect broad panels of pathogens simultaneously. We performed a field test with a total number of 347 stool samples from adult hospitalized patients that were tested with the Luminex xTAG GPP assay; of the 157 samples positively tested for a...

The clinical and pathological findings are recorded in two siblings who died in early infancy from familial histiocytic (;haemophagocytic') reticulosis. The nature of this condition is obscure but probably represents a primary histiocytosis. The only other family on record is that described by Farquhar and Claireaux (1952) and by Farquhar, Macgregor, and Richmond (1958).

We describe two sisters with necrotising granulomas. The intervals between the onset of symptoms and diagnosis were eight and nine years. The pathological findings showed necrotising granulomas in both patients, this being consistent with a diagnosis of pathergic (Wegener's) granulomatosis. The one patient that accepted treatment responded well to cyclophosphamide, though the facial lesions res...

A case of malrotation of the mid intestine with volvulus is reported in an infant in whom the clinical and radiological appearances were unusual, and had led to a misdiagnosis of necrotising enterocolitis. If the correct diagnosis had been made earlier, operation might have saved the infant's life.