A 25 year old woman was referred for the evaluation of haemoptysis. For one year she had been complaining of cough and recurrent blood streaked sputum, without dyspnoea, fever, chills or weight loss. She was not asthmatic, her childhood was free of pulmonary complaints, and there was no family history of pulmonary disease. Before this episode, she had been healthy. She had never smoked and had ...

Piercing invades subcutaneous areas and has a high potential for infectious complications. The number of case reports of endocarditis associated with piercing is increasing. We studied a 25-year-old man with a pierced tongue, who arrived at Memorial Health University Medical Center with fever, chills, rigors, and shortness of breath of 6 days' duration and had an aortic valvuloplasty for correc...

A 4-year-old boy, not known to have any medical illness, presented to several medical facilities reporting right upper quadrant and right flank pain, intermittent fever and chills for 3 months. A CT of the abdomen showed that a swallowed 'bobby pin' had pierced through the right kidney. This finding explained the boy's symptoms. The pin was removed by laparotomy without any subsequent complicat...

Two unusual anaerobic vibrio-like organisms were recovered from blood cultures of two patients. One isolate was identified as Desulfovibrio desulfuricans. It appeared to be the cause of a 24-h episode of fever, chills, and profuse perspiration. This is apparently the first documented report of human infection due to this organism. The second isolate was a Succinivibrio species. It has rarely be...

Introduction Hughes-Stovin Syndrome (HSS) is a very rare clinical disorder characterized by pulmonary artery aneurysms and peripheral venous thrombosis. Typical symptoms are recurrent fever, chills, haemoptysis and it usually affects young men. The natural course of the illness is usually fatal because of fulminant haemoptysis. The aetiology of Hughes-Stovin syndrome is still unknown; however i...

A seven year old boy with a history of cyclic neutropenia (CN) was admitted to the hospital after developing fever and chills following a bicycle accident. After admission, he had a rapidly deteriorating hospital course leading to shock and death. At autopsy, acute appendicitis with resultant peritonitis and sepsis was diagnosed. The peculiar clinical and microscopic aspects of this case will b...

Subsequent to submission of the above article (which was published in the June 2010 issue of the Journal) [1], our patient was readmitted to hospital 3 weeks following discharge with fever and chills, suggestive of a clinical relapse of infective endocarditis [2]. Echocardiography showed reappearance of vegetations on the mitral valve. However, three blood cultures were negative. The patient wa...

background brucellosis as a zoonotic infectious disease is endemic in iran and due to the variation in clinical and laboratory findings, its diagnosis is often delayed. objectives the aim of this study was to determine clinical and laboratory aspects of the disease in khuzestan. patients and methods medical records of 81 admitted patients with a diagnosis of brucellosis were reviewed. the study...

ABSTRACT Introduction: Vaccination remains a key strategy to living endemically with COVID-19. The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was first granted interim authorisation for use in Singapore December 2020. With overseas studies published about the safety and side effect profiles of mRNA vaccines focusing mainly on non-Asian populations, we described effects vaccination experienced by healthca...