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Hereditary prothrombin deficiency is one of the rare congenital coagulation defects. We report a case of 4 months old child who initially presented at 11/2 month of age with high-grade fever, generalized convulsions and brownish aspirate through nasogastric tube, diagnosed and managed as meningitis
We report two children with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) having severe bleeding manifestations and lupus anticoagulant hypoprothrombinemia syndrome (LAHPS) along with a review of published cases of childhood SLE and LAHPS. We report clinical and laboratory profile of two children diagnosed
A 48-year-old actively homosexual man who had undergone liver transplantation for cirrhosis secondary to hepatitis B infection six years previously presented with a syndrome of diffuse pain, cholestasis, and low-grade fever. The development of thrombocytopenia and persistent hypoprothrombinemia
A one-month-old male infant with spontaneous intracerebral and subdural hematomas due to vitamin K deficiency was described. He was breastfed. Loose stools continued and began to contain blood. He had fever, vomiting and convulsion, and became drowsy. The blood studies showed anemia and
A suicidal 67-year-old woman with manic-depressive psychosis took an overdose of asprin, amitriptyline and diazepam. The initial effects were pyrexia, tachycardia, hyperpnea, metabolic acidosis, electrocardiographic changes, hypoprothrombinemia, gastritis, and pancreatitis. Four to six weeks later,
Menadione (Vitamin K3) is an over-the-counter (OTC) drug used in the treatment of abdominal cramps, colitis, diarrhea, hay fever, hemorrahage, hypoprothrombinemia, and joint pains. In this study, we evaluated the protective influence of protocatechuic acid on menadione-induced
In a prospective, randomized trial of 195 febrile episodes in granulocytopenic patients short course aminoglycoside treatment (initial tobramycin and cefoperazone followed by tobramycin discontinuation at day four of therapy) was compared with two regimens (tobramycin plus cefoperazone and
OBJECTIVE
We describe the clinical presentation and response to treatment of community acquired, methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus retroperitoneal infections.
METHODS
A total of 13 patients with unusual retroperitoneal infections who fulfilled Centers for Disease Control criteria for
BACKGROUND: Leptospirosis (LS) and Hantavirus (HV) infection have many common clinical manifestations, including acute renal failure. In as much as clinical experience with these diseases is quite limited in urban centers, we identified cases of Leptospira and HV-induced acute renal failure and