Successful Treatment of an Infant Infected with Refractory C. parapsilosis with Caspofungin

Successful treatment of Candida parapsilosis mural endocarditis with combined caspofungin and voriconazole

BACKGROUND Fungal mural endocarditis is a rare entity in which the antemortem diagnosis is seldom made. Seven cases of mural endocarditis caused by Candida spp. have been collected from literature and six of these patients died after treatment with amphotericin B. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of mural endocarditis diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiogram and positive blood cultures t...

Successful Treatment of Refractory Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura with Rituximab, a Monoclonal Antibody: a Case Report

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is mostly attributed to the presence of an autoantibody against ADAMTS-13, a metalloprotease that degrades ultralarge von Willebrand protein multimers. Accumulation of vWF multimers and systemic platelet aggregation lead to microangiopathic thrombosis, hemolytic anemia, and end-organ ischemia. Most patients respond to therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE), ...

Successful Treatment of Refractory Behçet's Disease with the TNF-α Blocker Infliximab

Successful treatment of azole-resistant chronic mucocutaneous candidosis with caspofungin.

modern surgical techniques in treatment of patients with cleft lip & cleft palate

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