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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…
Judi M. Woolger, Johanna Lopez, Angelica B. Melillo, Eduard Tiozzo, Yaima Alonso, Soyona Rafatjah, Amine Sarabia, Susanna M. Leonard, Evan G. Long, Michael Schoor, Jared Tannenbaum, Janet Konefal, John E. Lewis
Purpose: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and gastrointestinal (GI) disorders are genuine health problems that have serious consequences on a patient’s quality of life (QoL). IBS is a functional disorder characterized by chronically recurring symptoms, includin…
Yves Jammes, Jean Guillaume Steinberg, Regis Guieu, Stephane Delliaux
It is documented that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) combines enhanced oxidative stress with altered muscle excitability. We hypothesized that these disorders may be accentuated when severe infection preceded the CFS symptoms. This case-control study compared…
Francisco R. Breijo-Marquez, Manuel Pardo Rios
The Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as transient apical dysfunction, transient apical dyskinesia, stress-induced cardiomyopathy or broken heart syndrome, is a type of nonischemic cardiomyopathy in which there is a sudden temporary weakening of the myoca…
Annika Linde, Christopher Ross, Frank Blecha, Gerald H. Lushington, Tonatiuh Melgarejo
Inflammation plays a central role in development of cardiovascular pathology, and enhanced understanding of the innate immune response will help direct novel therapeutic strategies to address heart disease. Host defense peptides (HDPs)—hereunder defensins —ex…
Fengli Liu, Feng Ji, Xi Jin, Yechun Du
Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) is a rare clinical disease which can cause recurrent upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract bleeding . It is responsible for about 4% of non-variceal upper GI haemorrhages. As one of the vascular diseases that happened in sto…
Göksel Açar, Serdar Fidan, Servet İzci, Elnur Alizade
Single coronary artery is a coincidental finding during coronary angiography or at autopsy. Although it is a rare condition and most of time has an asymptomatic clinic; prognosis varies. We would like to report a case about percutaneous coronary intervention…
Ben Fredj Ismail Fatma, Rezgui Amel, Karmani Monia, Ben Abdallah Olfa, Azzebi Samira, Laouani Kechrid Chedia
Introduction: The rheumatoid polyarthritis is the most frequent chronic polyarthritis. It affects essentially woman between 40 and 60 years old. Rheumatic subcutaneous nodules and tenosynovitis are usually associated with seropositive symptomatic rheumatoid p…
Esra Hatipoglu, Hasan Kepicoglu, Emel Basar, Nurperi Gazioglu, Civan Islak, Sabahattin Saip, Pinar Kadioglu
Pegvisomant is a recent treatment modality of acromegaly, which is most effective in regulating IGF-1 levels. Tumor growth has been reported in 5% of the acromegaly cases treated with pegvisomant. Herein we report a case of acromegaly resistant to surgical tr…
Mohammad Alkayem, Hussein Assallum
A 23 years old female p resent ed to Lincoln Medical and Mental Health center with skin rash and angioe dema after she received 20 pills of lamotrigine 25 mg, and the patient used to take this medication before two tables a day for many months, after she rece…
Esra Hatipoglu, Ahmet Emre Eskazan, Ozlem Celik, Fatih Kantarci, Pinar Kadioglu
Multiple osteolytic lesions are usually associated with metastatic involvement of the bone. However metabolic bone diseases should also take their place in differential diagnosis. Here, we describe a primary hyperparathyroidism case with full-blown osteolytic…
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