Open Access DOI:10.23937/ijrdd-2017/1710003
Concurrent Breast Cancer and Thymoma in an Immune Reconstituted HIV Positive Patient
SJ Winceslaus, Venkateshwaran Sivaraj, Julia Hall and Ramsay Singer
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: April 21, 2018
The expectation that the introduction of modern cART against HIV, leading to viral suppression and functional cure, would also herald complete immunological recovery has not materialised. In reality, even with the most effective cART, complete immunological recovery is seldom achieved, especially, if initiated at later stages of the disease. Thus, patients who do not achieve full immunological recovery remain at increased risk of cancers, chronic immune activation, inflammation and impaired coag...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3397/1410066
Risk Factors of Choledocholithiasis after Distal Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer
Yoshihide Asaumi, Mitsuaki Sakatoku, Saki Hayashi, Naohiro Ohta, Zensei Nozaki, Kohichi Yoshida, Hiroyuki Sugahara, Masahiro Kaneki, Kenichi Ietsugu and Kaoru Kiyohara
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: April 21, 2018
Some reconstruction methods are used after distal gastrectomy, and an endoscopic approach for choledocholithiasis is restricted by the type of reconstruction. We investigated retrospectively the risk factors for post-surgical choledocholithiasis after distal gastrectomy....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/ijfa-2017/1710006
Chosen Conservative Treatments on the Symptoms of Calcaneal Spur: A Short Review
Pawel Lizis
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: April 21, 2018
Calcaneal spur (CS) occurs when calcium deposits build up on the underside of the heel bone, a process that usually lasts for many months. CS often causes foot muscle strain, inflammation of the plantar fasciitis, repeated tearing of the membrane that covers the heel bone and pain. CS decreases physical activity, social capacity, reducing the quality of life, and becomes the cause of frequent absence from work due to sickness. It is a disease commonly appearing in adults, and it is also a seriou...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3656/1410206
Painful Hand Swelling after a Roller Coaster Ride
Felicitas Stoll, Britta Vogel, Boris Radeleff, Hugo A Katus and Oliver J Müller
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: March 16, 2018
We present a case report on the Achenbach's syndrome, a condition characterized by a painful hematoma and swelling of the palmar side of the hand and/or fingers with a sudden onset. Symptoms are typically triggered by everyday activities like carrying a bag or pressing down a door handle. Achenbach's syndrome being rather unknown, its impressive clinical presentation might unsettle both patients and physicians and entail elaborate diagnostic measures despite its in fact benign and self-limiting ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-584X/1510057
Pseudomelanosis of the Stomach and Duodenum
Kevin Pelland and Xuchen Zhang
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: April 19, 2018
Pseudomelanosis of the upper gastrointestinal tract is rare and classically associated with oral iron intake, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, diabetes mellitus, end stage renal disease and antihypertensive medication use. Duodenal involvement is well described, but only few cases of combined stomach and duodenal involvement have been reported to date. The lesion is indolent but can mimic more concerning entities like malignant melanoma....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-3235.1510032
Acquired Lower Extremity Arteriovenous Malformation: A Rare Case in an Adult with End-Stage Alcoholic Liver Cirrhosis
Patrick J Chiarolanzio, Cristy N French, Nicole C Williams and Stephanie A Bernard
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: April 18, 2018
A 53-year-old male with end-stage alcoholic liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension presented with hepatic encephalopathy as well as painful ambulation due to a mass on the medial aspect of his knee. The mass was first noted several months prior, concomitant with his presentation of decompensated liver failure. As a part of the pre-transplant work-up, multimodality imaging evaluation of the medial knee mass was completed and revealed a high-flow vascularized soft tissue lesion....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5718/1510086
Meniscal Pain: US Guided Meniscal Wall Infiltration Versus Partial Meniscectomy, a Comparative Study
Clement Marion, Marc Bouvard, Alain Lippa, Patrice Gardes, François Lavalle and Igor Benezis
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: April 18, 2018
The increasing increase in the name of meniscal lesions leads to a reflection on their charge price. The aim of a treatment is to relieve the pain and to allow, as a priority, the smooth running of the daily and professional activities. The concept of meniscal economy is expanded by the medical community. We compared the benefit of infiltrations of the meniscal wall with the arhroscopic meniscectomy....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3419/1410090
A Literature Review on Current Evidence of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Vineet Kwatra, Jose Roca, Sophie Merrick, Ruhe Chowdhury, Eleni Karapanagiotou and Rohit Lal
Article Type: Literature Review | First Published: April 18, 2018
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are changing the landscape in management of advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) and cytotoxic T-lymphocytes antigen-4 (CTLA-4) are two important co-inhibitory receptors which can lead to suppression of T-cell function when bound to its ligands. Results from multiple large randomised phase 3 trials have shown a significant improvement in overall survival with durable response in selected group of patients following immune checkp...