During 2010-2014, urgent care centers saw a ≈2-fold increase in the number of visits for chlamydia and gonorrhea testing and a >3-fold increase in visits by persons with diagnosed sexually transmitted infections. As urgent care becomes more popular, vigilance is required to ensure proper management of these diseases.

INTRODUCTION Despite recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that all adults be offered non-targeted HIV screening in all care settings, screening in acute-care settings remains unacceptably low. We performed an observational study to evaluate an HIV screening pilot in an academic-community partnership health center urgent care clinic. METHODS We collected visit data via enco...

OBJECTIVE To describe the success rate and the complications after procedures to diagnose abdominal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in children and adolescents. METHODS A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted with a population consisting of children and adolescents with abdominal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosed between September 1994 and December 2012. The sample comprised of 100 patients...

BACKGROUND Cystic artery pseudoaneurysm is rare, and some cases are associated with inflammation of the gallbladder. There is limited information regarding this condition, and the clinical features remain unclear. This report is a case of ruptured cystic artery pseudoaneurysm diagnosed by computed tomography (CT) imaging and treated with urgent cholecystectomy and is supported by a literature r...

Introduction: Low grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasms are generally encountered incidentally in appendicectomies for suspected appendicitis. This case is a documentation of rare occurrence LAMN presenting with small bowel obstruction. Case Report: An 83-year-old male presented to the Emergency Department three day history nausea, vomiting, and obstipation profoundly dehydrated. Computed tomogr...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com and spleen with suspected perforation of the stomach (Figure 1: A: Pneumoperitoneum and Ascites. B: Suspected Gastric perforation). Patient underwent urgent laparotomy; gastric perforation was found and repaired. Gastric biopsies were done. Patient kept having fever post-operatively with distended and tender abdomen, abdomen/pelvis CT was repeated t...

abstract primary enterolithiasis is a rare surgical ailment. the underlying cause is intestinal stasis. numerous anatomical and micro environmental factors such as enteritis, incarcerated hernia, malignancy, diverticula, blind loops, and enteroenterostomy predispose to clinically significant concretions. enterolithiasis in tuberculosis can be due to the presence of strictures, intestinal bands,...

Abstract Aims Despite recent improvements, delay to theatre in emergency laparotomy(EL) continues be associated with increased mortality the UK. This study aimed assess if patients requiring urgent surgical intervention for acute abdominal pathology could identified pre-hospital setting. Methods A two-phase, single-centre, cohort was performed. Phase 1 retrospectively investigated who underwent...

Abstract Spontaneous or non-traumatic perforation of the extrahepatic biliary system is a rare clinical phenomenon, with few cases reported since its first mention in medical literature by Freeland 1882. Given rarity, misdiagnosis common diagnosis almost always made during urgent exploratory laparotomy. We describe case spontaneous bile duct (CBD) an 83-year-old female no associative underlying...