Vol 2, No 2 (2015)

Case Reports in Internal Medicine, Vol. 2, No. 2, June 2015

Table of Contents

CASE REPORTS

Two contrasting outcomes of weight loss surgery: Positive impact on the heart, negative impact on the liver
Mohamed F Algahim, Thomas R. Lux, Joshua G. Leichman, Heinrich Taegtmeyer
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The electrocardiogram change of conus branch occlusion during right coronary artery angioplasty
Toshiki Kuno, Taishi Fujisawa, Yohei Numasawa, Toshiyuki Takahashi
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“Buddenbrook syndrome” - Toothache and its serious consequences
Ulrike Maria Müller, Madlen Uhlemann, Sabrina Wolff, Marcus Sandri, Gerhard C. Schuler
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Rheumatoid lung sine arthritis – An unusual case mimicking idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Chertoff Jason, Islam Elgendy, Ibrahim Faruqi
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Identifying atypical preeclampsia: A diagnostic challenge
Brittany S Cook, Maria C Bermudez, Ashlee L Smith, James Young
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Esophageal neuroendocrine tumor: A rare finding
Peter Hale Stein, Stuart Akerman, Rachel Tannenbaum
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Late onset ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency in a 61 year old male
Thomas Malfait, Gert De Schoenmakere, Filip Gallant, Hans Schepkens, Ann Van Loo, Wouter Meersseman, David Cassiman, Steven Brabant, Johannes Häberle, Wim Terryn
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Glibenclamide (glyburide) delay electrocardiographic ST-segment elevation in a diabetic patient with acute myocardial infarction
Ying-Chih Chen, Po-Chao Hsu, Chun-Yuan Chu, Wen-Hsien Lee, Ho-Ming Su, Tsung-Hsien Lin, Wen-Chol Voon, Wen-Ter Lai, Sheng-Hsiung Sheu
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Superior vena cava syndrome presenting as bilateral breast enlargement with “peau d’orange” skin changes
Gabriela Maloney, Jane James, Burnetta Herron, Marylee Braniecki
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Serratia marcescens lung abscess with review of a Japanese national inpatient database
Kazuko Miyakawa, Yasushi Goto, Mitushiro Sunohara, Hideo Yasunaga, Takahide Nagase
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Diagnosis and treatment of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in an adult patient with ehrlichiosis
Joel Provenzano, Timothy Kamerzell, Eyad Reda, Dana Hawkinson, Matthew Sharpe
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Aorto-right ventricular fistula: An early complication of aortic valve replacement
Faten Triki, Sahar Ben Kahla, Rania Hammami, Tarek Sellami, Ahmed Fkih, Dorra Abid, Leila Abid, Mourad Hentati, Imed Frikha, Samir Kammoun
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Successful surgical decortication for trapped lung in a patient with decompensated cirrhosis
Tripti R. Chopade, She-Yan Wong, David A. Sass, Scott W. Cowan, Nathaniel R. Evans, Jesse M. Civan
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Severe obstructive pattern mimicking an asthma exacerbation as first presentation of crack smoking: A case report
Thomas Galasso, Andrea Mazzetta, Valentina Conio, Elena Paracchini, Sara Surbone, Eti Maria Giulia Di Vincenzo, Isa Cerveri, Federica Meloni
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Farmer’s lung with a high CD4/CD8 ratio lymphocytic alveolitis: A case report
David Badovinac, Barbara Salobir, Marjeta Terčelj
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A case of Shapiro’s Syndrome in an African young man
Mwita Julius Chacha, Bernard Omech, Siamisang Keatlaretse, Bose Humphrey
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Severe pneumonia due to an atypical organism in an immune-competent patient
Kavita Pal, Ankur Girdhar, Abubakr Bajwa
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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy caused iatrogenic thyrotoxicosis
Lana Maričić, Sandra Makarović, Kristina Selthofer-Relatić, Krešimir Jelić, Robert Steiner
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A case of unusual etiology for thrombocytopenia in a young male
Najeebah A. Bade, Min-Ling L. Liu, Dalia A. Mobarek
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ANCA-associated renal vasculitis and acute exacerbation of scleroderma-associated interstitial lung disease: A case report
Sandra Chartrand, Elizabeth F.O. Kern, David A. Taryle, Aryeh Fischer
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