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Case ReportOpen accessEvery word in the titleLong COVID-19 Symptoms Remedied by Anti-Viral Treatment in Neurosurgical PatientsRobert Michael BeattyThe pandemic of COVID-19 is the largest in this century. Aside from the acute infection, some of the patients have been challenged with a complication that is known as long COVID-19. The symptoms of long COVID-19 are extensive and diverse. Long COVID-19 continues to plague many patients post-COVID-19 infection. No universal treatment has been found. This study presents four patients … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 19, Issue 3 · 19 Aug 2023 · 18,607 accessesView PDFCite
Case ReportOpen accessEvery word in the titleA Unique Presentation of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in a Patient Consuming Deer Antler VelvetJoseph Wiedemer, Yanely Sanchez Ceja, An Cao, Ibrahim MustafaCreutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a rare rapidly progressive neurodegenerative prion disorder that is usually sporadic but may also be acquired from exposure to infected sources, classically via infections of bovine or human etiology. Cervid transmission of CJD is of particular concern in North America given the rapid spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)- the Cervid version of CJD. We present … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 17, Issue 1 · 18 Mar 2021 · 7,551 accessesView PDFCite
Case ReportOpen accessEvery word in the titleA Case of a Young Patient with Acute Endocarditis and Challenging Diagnostic and Treatment DecisionsPau Rello, Teresa González-Alujas, Laura Escolà-Vergé et al.Despite advances achieved in recent years, Infective Endocarditis (IE) remains a disease associated with high mortality and morbidity. When it involves multiple locations at the same time, deciding the best treatment can become challenging. In some cases, especially in patients with prosthetic valve endocarditis, a definitive diagnosis can be difficult to achieve and multimodality imaging including Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 17, Issue 3 · 9 Jun 2021 · 7,382 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titlePatient Data Integration: A Panacea for Effective HealthcareHenry Anayo Okemiri, Alo Uzoma Rita, Achi Ifeany Isaiah et al.A huge challenge in the healthcare domain has remained the spread and proliferation of fragmented information systems and multiplicity of data that accumulate from growing quantities of heterogeneous data of patient. This challenge must be addressed as the whole domain gradually transforms into models of delivery of healthcare that is electronic and patient-centered. The presence of inadequate data integration at … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 16, Issue 2 · 22 Feb 2020 · 7,727 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleAn Analysis of Heart Disease for Diabetic Patients Using Recursive Feature Elimination with Random ForestBindushree Doddasiddavanahalli Channabasavaraju, Udayarani VinayakamurthyData Mining Techniques are used in many areas like banking, healthcare, education because of extracting relevant information from the database. Many algorithms in data mining are used to predict the disease to reduce the patient treatment cost as well as increase the diagnosis accuracy. In this research work, the risk level of diabetic heart disease patient can be predicted using … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 16, Issue 1 · 27 Jan 2020 · 7,931 accessesView PDFCite
Case ReportOpen accessEvery word in the titleLeprosy in a Patient Coinfected with HIV and SyphilisCarla Andréa Avelar Pires, Julius Caesar Mendes Soares, Maria Amélia Lopes dos Santos et al.Case report of a male patient, fifty years old, born in the Amazon region of Belém, Pará, northern Brazil. He was attended at a University service of reference in Dermatology on 09/14/2018, referring to "ball injuries" about a year ago with a sudden and progressive appearance in the abdomen with dissemination to the whole body. Three months ago he was … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 15, Issue 2 · 29 Jul 2019 · 7,288 accessesView PDFCite
Case ReportOpen accessEvery word in the titleCryptococcal Meningoencephalitis in a Patient with Hyper IgM Syndrome Due to CD40 Deficiency: Case Report and Literature ReviewMaram Al-Banyan, Abdulhadi Alqahtani, Farrukh Sheikh et al.Hyper-IgM syndrome (HIGM) due to CD40 deficiency is a very rare form of combined immunodeficiency with increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections. Cryptococcus is an opportunistic infection usually affecting immunocompromised individuals. This is the first report to describe a patient with HIGM due to CD40 deficiency presenting with meningoencephalitis secondary to Cryptococcus infection. …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 15, Issue 1 · 22 Feb 2019 · 7,741 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleEvaluation of Language Models (LLMs) in the Interpretation of Tuberculosis Concepts: Design of a Virtual Assistant for Clinical Support and Patient EducationMauricio Acevedo-Carrillo, Shirley Fiorella Simbron EspejoTuberculosis (TB) remains a global public health challenge, where access to accurate and up-to-date information is crucial for professionals and patients. This research comparatively evaluated the performance of five language models (LLMs) Med-PaLM 2, GPT-4, MEDITRON-70B, Me-LLaMA, and Clinical Camel in the TB domain and implemented a mobile virtual assistant as a proof-of-concept based on the best-performing model. Clinical accuracy … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 22, Issue 9 · 30 Sep 2026 · 491 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleRapid Recovery of Peripheral Oxygen Saturation in Hypoxic COVID-19 Patients With Ivermectin/Doxycycline/Zinc Multidrug TherapySabine Hazan, Adriana C. Vidal, Eleftherios Gkioulekas et al.Several combination therapies for the early outpatient treatment of COVID-19 were proposed by independent research groups at the onset of the pandemic during 2020 and 2021. In this observational study, we report on the outcomes of an off-label triple combination therapy, consisting of ivermectin, doxycycline, and zinc, with adjunct vitamin C and D3 supplementation, which was used on high-risk COVID-19 … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 22, Issue 1 · 3 Jul 2026 · 3,374 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleImpact of CTLA-4 Inhibitor Combined with Chemotherapy on Immunoglobulin Levels and General Condition in Breast Cancer PatientsRuiguang CaiThis study conducted an evaluation of the CTLA-4 inhibitor ipilimumab plus standard chemotherapy on immunoglobulin levels, performance status, and Quality of Life (QoL) in patients with stage I-III Breast Cancer (BC) via a randomized controlled trial. 120 patients with stage I-III BC were randomly allocated to the experimental group (chemotherapy + ipilimumab) and the control group (chemotherapy), and the treatment … …American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Vol. 22, Issue 2 · 3 Jul 2026 · 1,115 accessesView PDFCite