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2024-01-27 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2024-01-27 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
False-negative qualitative Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) result is a phenomenon in which large amounts of β-hCG are produced by molar pregnancy, oversaturating the test’s assay syst...
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2023-07-18 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2023-07-18 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
The management of kwashiorkor disease (KD) in children is challenging in resource-limited settings, especially for those cases with severe skin lesions and its complications. There are n...
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2023-07-18 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2023-07-18 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Yeast-related bloodstream infections (BSIs) in pediatric patients are associated with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), hematological/oncological malignancies and admission to an intensiv...
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2020-08-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2020-08-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Hippopotamus is one of the most-loved animals in Africa, yet it is aggressive and dangerous. The co-existence of humans in close proximity to their natural habitat increases the probabil...
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|Editorial
2019-04-15 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2019-04-15 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
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2020-06-25 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2020-06-25 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
In paediatrics, the overall clinical picture of thiamine deficiency (TD) is not easy to recognize, because it mimics or can be confused with other diseases even in cases of classic berib...
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2019-09-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2019-09-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
INTRODUCTION
Tuberculosis is a common illness for vulnerable populations in resource-limited settings. Lymph nodes in tuberculosis represent the most frequent extra-pulmonary form of...
Tuberculosis is a common illness for vulnerable populations in resource-limited settings. Lymph nodes in tuberculosis represent the most frequent extra-pulmonary form of...
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2019-06-24 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2019-06-24 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Tungiasis is a highly prevalent yet neglected disease of populations affected by extreme poverty. It causes great discomfort and pain, leads to social stigmatization and, when left untre...
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2021-06-18 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2021-06-18 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Adherence issues combined with inequitable access to healthcare may increase the risk of discontinuation of care for undocumented migrants with severe mental health illness.
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2021-01-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2021-01-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Nalidixic acid is a commonly prescribed treatment for suspected dysentery in Middle Eastern populations. We describe a case of convulsions resulting from a single dose of nalidixic acid ...
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|Letter
2019-08-14 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2019-08-14 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
In 2015, I was in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), working as a pediatrician with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). As had been the case in my two previous assignments with MSF,...
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2021-05-24 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2021-05-24 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
An unresponsive paediatric patient may present a diagnostic challenge for health professionals, as rapid identification of the cause is needed to provide proper interventions. The follow...
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2020-07-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2020-07-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
BACKGROUND
Sseveral genetic disorders are known to be associated with congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), a term often used to describe an impaired ability to perceive the type, ...
Sseveral genetic disorders are known to be associated with congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), a term often used to describe an impaired ability to perceive the type, ...
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2021-02-15 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2021-02-15 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Unintentional ingestions are a common form of poisoning in children worldwide. Organophosphates are commonly used in households worldwide and are a common cause of childhood poisonings. ...
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2022-05-23 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2022-05-23 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Globally, 58 million people are living with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and 1.5 million new patients are infected every year. The advent of direct acting antivirals (DAAs) has revo...
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2019-07-12 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2019-07-12 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common inherited haemoglobinopathy wordwide, with the highest prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa. Due to the lack of national strategies and scarcity ...