Journal of Medical Cases


Editor-in-Chief
Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, MHS, Associate Professor
Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, MD, USA
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ISSN-print: 1923-4155 | ISSN-online: 1923-4163 | Monthly | Open Access | Aims and Scope

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Highlights

  • Renal Function Improvement With Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist in a Patient With Type 2 Diabetes

    Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) includes hypertensive nephrosclerosis, aging, obesity, and atherosclerosis-related renal diseases, in addition to classical diabetic nephropathy. Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2is) have been approved for diabetic and non-diabetic patients at risk of chronic kidney disease progression.

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  • Idiopathic Hypertrophic Spinal Pachymeningitis

    Hypertrophic pachymeningitis (HP) is a rare presentation with duramater thickening and fibrosis which can result in cranial or spinal compressive disease. Most cases of spinal HP require surgical management.

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  • Multiple Complications of Crohn’s Disease and the Need for Early and Continuous Multidisciplinary Undertaking

    Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory disease that typically affects the bowels but can also have many different extraintestinal manifestations. One of those complications is immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN), which is one of the most encountered renal lesions in the setting of Crohn’s disease.

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  • Synchronous Left Ventricular and Endocranial Mass

    Myocardial cysts represent a miscellaneous and infrequent spectrum of conditions, with each of them coming from a different etiological background. Congenital myocardial cysts, neoplasia, cysts of infectious origin (bacterial, viral, or parasitic).

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  • A Case of Radiation-Associated Vertebral Compression Fracture Mimicking Solitary Bone Metastasis of Lung Cancer

    Radiation therapy plays an important role in the treatment of lung cancer. Although adverse effects of radiation are well known, they are sometimes difficult to be diagnosed. We report a case of a radiation-associated vertebral compression fracture which mimicked bone metastasis of lung cancer.

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Featured

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Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma Complicated by Skeletal Muscle Metastases

We present a case of a 66-year-old male with severe muscular pain after diagnosis of upper tract urothelial carcinoma, who was found to have extensive metastasis to skeletal muscles including gluteal, sternocleidomastoid, deltoid, vastus lateralis, and gastrocnemius muscles. Full Text

A Rare Case of Coccidioidomycosis Meningitis

Disseminated coccidioidomycosis is a fungal disease endemic to the Southwest United States as well as South and Central America. This dimorphic fungus typically manifests as pulmonary infection; however, there are very rare instances of extrapulmonary disseminated disease especially in immunocompromised hosts. Full Text


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Anesthetic Care During Exploratory Laparotomy and Excision of a Fetus-in-Fetu With a Combined General-Regional Anesthetic Technique Using a Caudal Epidural Catheter
 Fetus-in-fetu (FIF) is a rare, congenital anomaly involving the presence of one of a pair of twins within the body of the other. It is postulated that this pathology occurs during embryogenesis of a diamniotic-monochorionic twin pregnancy with unequal division of the blastocele, which results in monozygotic, monochorionic, and diamniotic twins of unequal sizes. Full Text


Current Issue

 


Vol. 15, No. 7, Jul 2024

Table of Contents

Case Reports

Prompt Identification and Intervention for Ischemic Monomelic Neuropathy in Preventing Major Patient Disability Abstract HTML PDF
Raja GnanaDev, Aldin Malkoc, Jeffrey Hsu, Iden Andacheh 117-119
doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/jmc4206
Organizing Pneumonia With Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage Induced by the Kampo Medicine Choreito Abstract HTML PDF
Seijitsu Ando, Koji Azuma, Kiyosi Mori, Yumiko Hirose, Shinji Futami, Takuma Shirasaka, Seigo Minami 120-125
doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/jmc4222
An Atypical Presentation of Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Abstract HTML PDF
Selia Chowdhury, Samiul Haque, Harshavardhan Sanekommu, Brandon Nightingale, Shazli Razi, Mohammad A. Hossain 126-129
doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/jmc4225
Metastatic Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma Masquerading as Myositis Abstract HTML PDF
Christopher Dilli, William Mi, Miguel A. Guzman 130-135
doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/jmc4236
Long Duration Pembrolizumab for Metastatic Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Soft Tissue Sarcoma With Multimodality Therapy Abstract HTML PDF
Daniel Y. Reuben 136-142
doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/jmc4237
Can Hyperthermia Unveil Brugada Pattern? Abstract HTML PDF
Poornima Vinod, Hiten Patel 143-147
doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/jmc4242
Asplenia-Associated Babesiosis: A Quagmire Traversed by Exchange Transfusion Abstract HTML PDF
Muhammad Umer Riaz Gondal, Luke Rovenstine, Fawwad Ansari, Zainab Kiyani, Syed Ayan Zulfiqar Bokhari, Devi Parvathy Jyothi Ramachandran Nair, Toqeer Khan, Syed Jaleel 148-151
doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/jmc4247
 

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