Case of the Week 509
This week features our monthly case from Idzi Potters and theInstitute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp. The patient is a European male with recent travel to Senegal who presented with right conjunctivitis. On ocular examination, a 10-cm long worm was identified and removed from the right conjunctiva. It measured 470 micrometers in diameter.A Knott ' s concentration was also performed on the patient ' s blood, revealing 6 larvae per milliliter. Each larva measured approximately 375 micrometers long by 10 micrometers wide.Identification? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - September 3, 2018 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Fixing primary care ’s broken business model
Primary care visits are never quick; we don’t give much advice over the phone or online; and we prioritize the government’s and insurance companies’ public health agenda over our own patients’ concerns.
Imagine health care as a retail customer experience for a few minutes:
Imagine you’re going to Walmart to buy a bag of dog food, a new coffee maker or to equip a small kitchen in your newly built mother-in-law apartment.
1. You’ve bought dog food there before, so you know exactly where it is. You just want to quickly grab a bag and get out of there.
2. You have a rough idea of where the coffee makers are; you kn...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 19, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/a-country-doctor" rel="tag" > A Country Doctor, MD < /a > Tags: Policy Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Precision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease (Book Index)
In January, 2018, Academic Press published my bookPrecision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease. This book has an excellent " look inside " at itsGoogle book site, which includes the Table of Contents. In addition, I thought it might be helpful to see the topics listed in the Book ' s index. Note that page numbers followed by f indicate figures, t indicate tables, and ge indicate glossary terms.AAbandonware, 270, 310geAb initio, 34, 48ge, 108geABL (abelson leukemia) gene, 28, 58ge, 95 –97Absidia corymbifera, 218Acanthameoba, 213Acanthosis nigricans, 144geAchondroplasia, 74, 143ge, 354geAcne, 54ge, 198, 220geAcq...
Source: Specified Life - January 23, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: index jules berman jules j berman precision medicine Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 314
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Welcome to the 314th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chunk of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
The Bottom Line has a comprehensive review on the role of steroids in sepsis – where w...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 7, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
Eye Disease Transmitting Oriental Eye Fly Found in China
Scientists have found a fly capable of transmitting conjunctivitis and other eye diseases in China for the first. New grass fly species were also discovered.Read more on sciencespacerobots.com (Source: HealthNewsBlog.com)
Source: HealthNewsBlog.com - August 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: flies china Source Type: blogs
Most cases of pink eye (conjunctivitis) don ’t require antibiotics
If you or your child has ever had acute conjunctivitis or “pink eye,” you know how nasty it can be. “Crusty,” “goopy,” “bloodshot,” “itchy,” and “gritty” are all common words used to describe the eye condition that affects some six million people in the US every year.
What is conjunctivitis exactly?
Conjunctivitis is inflammation of the conjunctiva, which is the thin membrane that covers the whites of the eyes. There are three main types of conjunctivitis: allergic, viral, and bacterial.
Allergic conjunctivitis often accompanies other allergy symptoms like itchy, runny nose or sneezing.
Viral con...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 17, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mallika Marshall, MD Tags: Cold and Flu Drugs and Supplements Eye Health Infectious diseases Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 195
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 195.
Question 1
What is the JOLT test?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 29, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five abdominal aorta Astley Cooper chicken chlamydia egg Georgi Markov JOLT test meningitis rester's syndrome ricin Source Type: blogs
Frankly my dear, I do give a damn
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aka: Paediatric Perplexity 016
An 18 month old girl is brought in by Gran after developing a very red rash over the last 2 days.
She was seen by her GP a few days before with fevers, sore throat and lethargy and was diagnosed as a viral infection.
However the rash then came up the following day and she seemed to deteriorate…
What is the diagnosis?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 2, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Johnny Iliff Tags: Clinical Cases Pediatrics paediatric rash scarlet Source Type: blogs
Oldie but Goodie Pediatric Clinical Concepts
A number of older clinical concepts may be unfamiliar to younger clinicians, but these clinical concepts are useful in pediatric medicine. Some of these concepts showed up in the medical literature for the first time nearly a century ago. Physicians should feel free to question the potential value and validity of older clinical concepts that aren't at the forefront of medical education, but my experience of more than 30 years practicing pediatrics and emergency medicine has repeatedly affirmed to me that these are valuable in emergency medicine.Parenteral DiarrheaThe concept of parenteral diarrhea has been around for...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - March 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Oldie but Goodie Pediatric Clinical Concepts
A number of older clinical concepts may be unfamiliar to younger clinicians, but these clinical concepts are useful in pediatric medicine. Some of these concepts showed up in the medical literature for the first time nearly a century ago. Physicians should feel free to question the potential value and validity of older clinical concepts that aren't at the forefront of medical education, but my experience of more than 30 years practicing pediatrics and emergency medicine has repeatedly affirmed to me that these are valuable in emergency medicine.Parenteral DiarrheaThe concept of parenteral diarrhea has been around for...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - March 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
TWiV 414: Zika in the guys with Diamond
On episode #414 of the science show This Week in Virology, Michael Diamond visits the TWiV studio to talk about chikungunya virus and his laboratory’s work on a mouse model of Zika virus, including the recent finding of testicular damage caused by viral replication.
You can find TWiV #414 at microbe.tv/twiv, or listen below.
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Source: virology blog - November 6, 2016 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology conjunctivitis fertility microcephaly mouse model sexual transmission sperm sterility testes uveitis viral virus virus in semen virus in tears viruses zika virus Source Type: blogs
A case of recurrent ligneous conjunctivitis in an adult
Massive fibrin deposition in a case of recurrent ligneous conjunctivitis in an adultI recently reviewed a case ofligneous conjunctivitis, a rare form of chronic pseudomembranous conjunctivitis that is marked by a massive accumulation of fibrin. The term ligneous (from the Latin term for " woody " ) refers to the firm consistency of the large masses of fibrin that comprise the pseudomembranes. Ligneous conjunctivitis typically occurs in children but may recur in adults. Treatment is often challenging because the inflammation is persistent and the pseudomembranes often recur rapidly after excision. Histopa thology s...
Source: neuropathology blog - September 22, 2016 Category: Radiology Tags: ophthalmic pathology Source Type: blogs
TWiV 406: Pow, right in the enteroids!
The TWiV team discusses eye infections caused by Zika virus, failure of Culex mosquitoes to transmit the virus, and replication of norovirus in stem cell derived enteroids.
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Source: virology blog - September 12, 2016 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Uncategorized AXL cell receptor conjunctivitis enteroid norovirus organoid stem cell tears uveitis viral virology viruses zika virus Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 410
This week ' s case is in honor of thethird annual Contact Lens Health Week (August 22-26). Contact lenses were received from a young adult male with bilateral conjunctivitis, photophobia and eye pain. These symptoms began shortly after he had been swimming in a freshwater lake while wearing his contact lenses. The contact lenses were plated for bacterial, mycobacterial, fungal and free-living amebic cultures, and fluid from the contact cases was sent to the cytology lab where it was made into a cell block. Here are photographs from the H&E-stained cell block specimen.Identification? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - August 22, 2016 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
