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Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a serious medical condition associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Thirty-day mortality rates associated with CDI have been estimated to be anywhere from 6.0% to 32.5%, with higher mortality rates observed in older patients.
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Unless you were bent on becoming a forensic entomologist as a kid, there is nothing worse than pulling back a bed sheet and finding ... maggots. Every so many years, I find an ICU patient, typically sedated and intubated, with fly larvae crawling out of some orifice or wound.
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It took polymerase chain reaction at least 30 years (by my reckoning) to evolve from its inception as a promising method for laboratory detection of infectious agents in patient samples to its widespread utilization in diagnostic clinical microbiology laboratories.
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Serial examination of Humphrey visual fields in patients with infarct-related hemianopsia shows spontaneous recovery, predominantly in lower quadrants and in the periphery.
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FDA issues multiple drug safety alerts; ARBs and cancer risk; and FDA actions.
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Many survivors of medulloblastoma, who were treated with craniospinal radiation, develop physical and cognitive impairments as adults.
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Careful testing of jaw muscle power can help to make an accurate clinical diagnosis in acute, flaccid quadriparesis.
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Investigators at the royal melbourne hospital in Australia reviewed their 11-year database of consecutive ruptured intracranial aneurysms treated with endovascular coiling or craniotomy and analyzed outcome using the modified Rankin Scale at 6 months.
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The use of biomarkers from the CSF, as well as newer PET imaging ligands, allow for an accurate diagnosis in patients who have a syndrome of posterior cortical atrophy.