DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Recurrent disease
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, MTB or TB (short for tubercle bacillus) is a common and in many cases lethal infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air when people who have an active MTB infection cough, sneeze, or otherwise transmit their saliva through the air. Most infections in humans result in an asymptomatic, latent infection, and about one in ten latent infections eventually progresses to active disease, which, if left untreated, kills more than 50% of its victims...
Recurrent disease - List of case studies
- Cystic Neoplasms of the Pancreas
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50% of these tumors - more frequently in main-branch disease. It is classically, but infrequently, identified as a ... within the cyst. Similarly, pancreatitis (both acute and recurrent) can be the heralding sign. Often this may manifest as LUQ and/or ... of the bile duct, pancreatitis, acute pancreatitis , recurrent pancreatitis, segmental pancreatitis, pancreatic duct obstruction, ...
- Peripheral T-cell lymphoma
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adenocarcinoma which was resected 13 years ago, and a recurrent local tumor which was re-operated. Since late 2007, the patient has ... that the patient will tolerate chemo well, and the disease will respond: Should we proceed with autologous bone marrow (stem ...
- Relapse of Chondrosarcoma of Cervical Spine
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59-year-old male, suffering from locally recurrent second degree chondrosarcoma of the cervical spine. Following ... intervention achieved complete removal of the recurrent disease . CAT scan findings should be interpreted as mere postsurgical ...
- IgG Multiple Myeloma
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and steroids for 6 cycles followed by thalidomide. The disease has responded to therapy. ... next steps when Thalidomide will not be effective and the disease will progress? 4) Future treatment ? Experimental therapy ? 5) ... and bortezomib is highly effective in patients with recurrent or refractory multiple myeloma who received prior ...
- Hyperthyroidism in autoimmune non-nodular thyroiditis
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not be recommended in such a case. Basedow’s disease ( Graves’ disease in the English literature) is in contrast ... include permanent hoarseness (from damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerve with vocal cord paralysis ) and hypocalcemia ...
- Renal Cell Carcinoma
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this stage the patient has no evidence of residual or recurrent disease therefore there is no place for adjuvant therapy . However, ...
- Non Small Cell Lung cancer, Stage 4, S/P Right Pneumonectomy
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morphologically different from the previous specimen. The disease was staged as 3 A and the patient was given a course of Vinorelbine. ... by the referring physician. The patient suffers from recurrent, now metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, adenocarcinoma. He is ...
- Psychomotor retardation due to spinal amyotrophy
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period, started to suffer from gastroesophageal reflux and recurrent respiratory infections, at times with broncospasm. In addition, ... Research Foundation). Within the field of neuromuscular disease, FTELE supports preclinical projects aimed at developing cutting edge ...
- Stage I Uterine Leiomyosarcoma
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is poor and response to chemotherapy is limited in recurrent disease. For these reasons we usually do advocate adjuvant chemotherapy ...
- Anaplastic Astrocytoma in the left temporal lobe
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from May 2008 revealed a neuroradiologic picture of disease progression , in particular: “.. expansion of the multiple ... A, et al, Phase II trial of bevacizumab and irinotecan in recurrent malignant glioma. Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Feb 15;13(4):1253-9. ...