Two patients are described who were originally published in Reports of medical cases (1827; 1831) by Richard Bright. The first patient suffered from haematuria and oedema (dropsy) and died after acute epiglottitis. At autopsy the kidneys were swollen and haemorrhagic (acute glomerulonephritis in
Coalescence of infection of the epiglottis, or epiglottic abscess, is a rare manifestation of epiglottitis. We report the case of a 49-year-old Hispanic man with HIV (CD4 count 243 [16.2%]), HIV viral load 175,689 copies per milliliter, antiretroviral-naive) contracted from his wife who presented to
The physician must be alert to the possibility of unsuspected sinusitis when evaluating a patient with chronic cough, sore throat, fever of unknown origin, supraglottitis, pneumonia, or headache. This article presents four cases in which atypical or asymptomatic sinusitis was discovered that could
Up to 70% of individuals with primary HIV infection will develop symptoms of an acute illness. The most common symptoms reported are fever, generalized lymphadenopathy, arthralgia and myalgia, headache, pharyngitis, enanthema, skin rash, diarrhoea, and mucocutaneous ulcerations. More rarely,
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