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Angelo Giuffrida

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Delayed brain reexpansion in schizophrenic patient affected by trabecular type chronic subdural hematoma

2021

Background: Chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH) represents a complex and unpredictable disease, characterized by high morbidity and mortality, especially in elderly patients. Factors affecting the postoperative brain reexpansion along to cSDH recurrence have not been yet adequately investigated. The authors presented the case of a schizophrenic patient affected by trabecular type cSDH that presented a delayed brain reexpansion despite a craniotomy and membranotomy. Case Description: A 51-year-old female patient with diagnosis of schizophrenia was admitted to the emergency department with GCS score of 5/15 and right anisocoria. An urgent brain CT revealed a trabecular right cSDH (35 mm in maxi…

medicine.medical_specialtyAnisocoriabusiness.industryPatient affectedmedicine.medical_treatmentTrabecularCase ReportChronic subdural hematomaEmergency departmentmedicine.diseaseSurgeryPneumocephalusChronic subdural hematomaMidline shiftSchizophreniaPneumocephalusSchizophreniamedicineSurgeryNeurology (clinical)medicine.symptombusinessCraniotomyCraniotomySurgical Neurology International
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Interstitial pulmonary inflammation due to Microbacterium sp. after heart transplantation.

2006

A coryneform bacterium was isolated from the bronchoalveolar aspirate of a patient with interstitial pulmonary inflammation. Commercial systems identified the isolate as Corynebacterium sp. or Aureobacterium sp./Corynebacterium aquaticum, but 16S rRNA gene analysis unequivocally attributed it to the genus Microbacterium. This represents the first documented case of Microbacterium pulmonary infection.

Microbiology (medical)AdultDNA BacterialMalePathologymedicine.medical_specialtySettore MED/07 - Microbiologia E Microbiologia Clinicamedicine.medical_treatmentMicrobacteriumMolecular Sequence DataInflammationMicrobiologyMicrobiologyRNA Ribosomal 16SActinomycetalesmedicineHumansPhylogenyHeart transplantationbiologyPulmonary inflammationGeneral MedicineMicrobacterium pulmonary inflammation heart transplantationPneumoniabiology.organism_classification16S ribosomal RNATransplantationCirculatory systemHeart Transplantationmedicine.symptomActinomycetales InfectionsBacteriaJournal of medical microbiology
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Spontaneous anterior cervicothoracic spinal epidural hematoma extending to clivus in SARS-CoV-2 infection

2021

Background: The treatment of spontaneous spinal epidural hematomas (SSEHs), depending on the lesion size and myeloradicular involvement, can be surgical or conservative. Here, we present a 55-year-old patient who sustained a SSEH several months following a systemic SARS-CoV-2 infection. Case Description: A 55-year-old immunocompromised female (i.e., history 17 years ago of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, nodular sclerosis variant) recently developed a SARS-CoV-2 infection treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents. She then reported the sudden onset of cervicodorsalgia after a slight cervical flexion/extension maneuver. The brain and cervicothoracic spine MRI studies documented a clival anteri…

medicine.medical_specialtySpinalSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)medicine.medical_treatmentCase ReportLesion03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineHematomaClivusNodular sclerosismedicineReduction (orthopedic surgery)Hematomabusiness.industrySpontaneousCOVID-19medicine.diseaseSurgeryLymphomamedicine.anatomical_structure030220 oncology & carcinogenesisEpiduralSurgeryNeurology (clinical)medicine.symptombusinessSpinal epidural hematoma030217 neurology & neurosurgerySurgical Neurology International
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