Vol 3, No 4 (2016)

Case Reports in Internal Medicine, Vol. 3, No. 4, December 2016

Table of Contents

CASE REPORTS

Isolated right ventricular infarction: Fatal dissection and shock requiring invasive therapies
Amber Makani, Claire Sullivan, Richard Josephson
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A case of positive pregnancy test in a sexually inactive solid organ transplant recipient -- can human chorionic gonadotropin be transmitted through solid organ transplantation?
Mina Al-Badri, Kunam Reddy, Paru David, Raymond Heilman, Christine Snozek, Suneela Vegunta
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A formula to estimate water loss in a malnourished patient with ascites: One inch equals one kilogram
Sevan V Stepanian, John A. Tayek
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Thoracic aortic dissection mimicking primary hematological disorder: A case report
Mohamad Nazrulhisham Mad Naser, Bee Ping Chong, Noor Khairiah A. Karim
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Successful treatment of Takayasu’s arteritis in a HIV positive adult patient with long term follow up
Marie DeLuca, Philip A. Gruppuso, Edward J. Wing
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Black Ascites: An interesting presentation of pancreatic duct leak
Mustafa S Ascha, Mona Ascha, Ibrahim Hanouneh
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A rare case of pancreatic adenocarcinoma and subsequent metastatic insulinoma causing severe hypoglycemia
Josephine H. Li, Catherine J. Tang, James V. Hennessey
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Progressive fatigue and central cyanosis due to severe pulmonary arterial hypertension as the initial manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus in a boy: A case report
Zhang Feng, Prasad Shrestha Arnav, Jinquan Lao, Bingbing Ye, Xiaofei Peng, Deo Mandal Krishna, Liu Luo, Zhifeng Cao, Yusheng Pang
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Invasive fungal infection by Cunninghamella bertholletiae in a kidney transplant patient – a dramatic report
Andreia Campos, Josefina Santos, Sofia Santos, Cristina Freitas, JP Pimentel, A. Cabrita, A. Castro Henriques
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Rare tumor of the spleen - case report
Rita Meireles, Joana Cordeiro Cunha, Violeta Iglesias, Paula Baptista
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Acute pancreatitis after upper endoscopy
Patrick Wu, Hope Hubbard
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A rare case of turner syndrome mosaicism in an African black woman
Yordanka Piña Rivera, Godfrey Mutashambara Rwegerera
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A case of neuralgic amyotrophy with contralateral recurrence
Kimberly L Aderhold, Lisa H Carpenter, Krysta L Brown, Ronald K Herb
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A case of secondary diabetes mellitus associated with chronic arsenic toxicity
John Michael Moorman, Melanie L. Boros, Daniela Ciltea, Josephine Taverna, Nairmeen Awad Haller
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Adolescent survivor of childhood Acute Myeloid Leukaemia undertakes pregnancy with a severe anthracycline induced cardiomyopathy and risk taking behaviours
Anne Tripaydonis, Rachel Conyers
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Aberrant left main coronary artery induced asymptomatic heart failure
Bankim Patel, Aravindan Jeyarajasingam, Kunal Patel, Rupen Patel, Daniel Benatar
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Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS) precipitated by cardiac surgery: A case report and review of the literature
Shivani Jatin Gandhi, Igor Medic, Neil A. Lachant
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Acute onset heart failure due to Marfan syndrome
Nicholas S. Hendren, Shreya Rao, Purav Mody
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Cardiac manifestation of the huge pulmonary mass simulating ST-elevation myocardial infarction
Nancy Wassef, Sarah Dorrington, George Pulikal
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Acute kidney injury requiring renal replacement therapy due to severe hemolysis after mechanical thrombectomy
Puneet Bedi, Daniel Addanki, Aaron Reichman, Shyan-Yih Chou, Ira Reiser
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