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Open Journal of Internal Medicine (OJIM) is an international journal dedicated to the advancement of the study of internal medicine. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas…
Ylber Jani, Sotiraq Xhunga, Artur Serani, Bekim Pocesta, Fatmir Ferati, Dali Lala, Agim Zeqiri, Atila Rexhepi
This study aimed to describe the epidemiology of repolarization dispersion (QT dispersion and Tpeak-Tend dispersion) and further describe their associated clinical correlates among uncontrolled arterial hypertension in type-2 Diabetics patient, in western reg…
Hosam Zaky, Jassem Al Hashmi
We are reporting a case of acquired complete heart block and long QT interval (a dispersion of repolarization that leads to polymorphic ventricular tachycardia) that has presented with loss of conscious and proved to be due to torsade de pointes. The patient…
Xiaoyang Yang, Mengjie Wan, Fangping Chen
The guideline of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) about candidiasis is a key standard for clinical doctors to treat patients, and textbook to teach medical students. However, in the progress of clinical treatment and documents checking, the i…
Kechaou Ines, Cherif Eya, Boukhris Imen, Azzabi Samira, Ben Hassine Lamia
Ovarian and peritoneal localizations of tuberculosis are rare. They raise the problem of differential diagnosis with malignancy. In this regard, we reported the case of a 25-year-old woman who presented with bilateral pseudo tumoral ovarian mass mimicking an…
Giuseppina Calvaruso, Maria Concetta Renda, Disma Renda, Emanuela Fecarotta, Angela Piazza, Antonino Giangreco, Aurelio Maggio
Hereditary aceruloplasminemia is a rare disease characterized by iron overload and neurodegeneration. Aceruloplasminemia is due to the absence/deficiency of ceruloplasmin, responsible for iron overload in liver, pancreas and other organs. We report the case o…
Oumar Guira, Hervé Tiéno, Yempabou Sagna, Ismael Diallo, Safyatou Sawadogo, Joseph Y. Drabo
Introduction: Depression is common in HIV/AIDS. We aim to investigate the frequency and the grade of this mental disorder in partners and determine its influence on sexual dysfunctions in serodiscordant couples in Ouagadougou. Patients/Method: This cross-sect…
Dally Najib, Daniel Talmud, Saher Srour, Rola Khamisy-Farah, Raymond Farah
We report the case of a 56-year-old female who had recently been examined for back and epigastric pain, and was diagnosed in the internal medicine ward as having an aggressive rare form of multiple myeloma with diffuse osteoblastic bone lesions. She also had…
Mark W. Morningstar, Megan N. Strauchman, Gretchen Fleischmann
Background: Scoliosis is a common condition in adult patients, and often causes chronic back pain compared to non-scoliosis. It has also been identified that bone mineral density is very often compromised in patients with scoliosis, even occurring in adolesce…
Oumar Guira, Hervé Tiéno, Abraham Bagbila, Yempabou Sagna, Gérard Coulibaly, Lassané Zoungrana, Joseph Y. Drabo
Introduction: Electrolyte’s profile in non-acidosis diabetic ketosis is poorly specified. We aimed to determine the nature of diabetic ketosis decompensations as well as the profile of kalemia and factors associated with its disorders at diagnosis of acidosis…
Eissa Bilehjani, Solmaz Fakhari, 1 1, Samira Yavari, Jafar Rahimi Panahi, Mohammadreza Afhami, Bahman Nagipour, Hojjat Pourfathi, Haleh Farzin, Ladan Javidi
Introduction: The typical order of nothing per oral (NPO) after midnight has been challenged in recent years, thus the American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) revised in practice guidelines for preoperative fasting in healthy patients undergoing elective pro…
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