acute rheumatic arthritis affect Indians? js unrecognized subacute rheumatic infection in childhood responsible for the mitral stenosis and chronic congestive heart failure of young Indian adults ? My interest in these questions was first aroused by observing a series of some 20 cases of chronic heart failure in young Indian males, mostly between 12 and 18 years of age, in the medical wards of ...

BACKGROUND Osteomyelitis can be difficult to diagnose and there has previously not been a prospective approach to identify all children in a defined geographic area. The aim of this study was to assess the annual incidence of osteomyelitis in children, describe the patient and disease characteristics in those with acute (< 14 days disease duration) and subacute osteomyelitis (> or = 14 days dis...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Absolute lymphocytopenia is recognised as an important hallmark of the immune response to severe infection and observed in patients with Legionnaires' disease. To explore the immune response, we studied the dynamics of peripheral blood lymphocyte subpopulations in the acute and subacute phase of LD. METHODS AND RESULTS EDTA-anticoagulated blood was obtained from eight patients...

SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has had significant impacts on the world. The longer continues more we learn about virus behind it and post-infection complications. infections have been associated with immune dysfunction thyroid disease. spectrum of disease reported spans from subacute thyroiditis to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. We report a 16-years-old patient whose COVID-19 infection was followed by multiple...

Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug that has been used as alternative for prophylaxis and treatment of COVID-19 infection. The adverse effects from supratherapeutic doses can include nonneurological neurological symptoms. In this study, we report the case a 52-year old Filipino male with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus who developed subacute history fever, cough generalized weakness, causing ...

luteal hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is an acute, subacute, or chronic infection that affects the sudoriparous, apocrine, eccrine, or pilosebaceous apparatus of the affected area. Although its pathophysiology is poorly understood, it is generally believed that obstruction of the apocrine pores results in glandular dilatation and bacterial superinfection, with subsequent gland rupture disseminat...