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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…
Timur Selcuk Akpinar, Busra Alpaslan, Raim Iliaz, Goknur E. Isik, Bulent Saka
Fever of unknown (FUO) origin challenging clinical condition. The causes of FUO are diverse: possible etiologies include infectious diseases, chronic granulomatous diseases, malignity, connective tissue disorders and vasculitis. Giant cell arteritis which aff…
Abdullah Ozkok, Mirac Vural Keskinler, Erhan Eken, Osman Kostek, Ozge Caklili, Alihan Oral, Kubra Aydin Bahat, Omer Celal Elcioglu, Ali Bakan, Ali Riza Odabas
A 31-year-old female admitted with productive cough and progressively increasing edema in her legs. Four years ago she had the diagnosis of situs inversus (SI) totalis. She had6.5 g/day proteinuria in 24-hour urine analysis. High resolution computed tomograph…
Omer Elcioglu, Abdullah Ozkok, Timur Akpinar, Reyhan Kucukkaya
Neutropenic enterocolitis (NE) or typhlitis is a serious complication of anticancer therapy, especially in he- matological malignancies. We describe a case of acute lymphoid leukemia presenting the early onset of a syndrome with the clinical features and spec…
Abdullah Ozkok, Ayhan Atakan, Goksel Acar, Riza Atas, Omer Kaya, Bahtiyar Toz, Murat Kose, Timur Selcuk Akpinar, Fatih Tufan, Huseyin Oflaz
A seventeen-year-old male presented with severe substernal chest pain after an episode of upper respiratory tract infection. On clinical grounds, a diagnosis of myocarditis was established. He had a peak troponin I level as high as 40.4 ng/dl but interestingl…
Ruvan Ekanayaka, Yasindu Waniganayake
The 6 minute walk test (6MWT) is well established in the clinical assessment of heart failure, pulmonary hypertension and COPD. Its value as a submaximal stress test in the risk stratification of chronic stable ischaemic syndromes is as yet not validated. 95…
Peter I. Kalmar, Peter Schedlbauer, Martin Wehrschütz, Otto C. Dörfler, Hannes A. Deutschmann, Freyja-Maria Smolle-Jüttner, Rupert H. Portugaller
Aim: Purpose of the study was to investigate the efficacy of empiric arterial embolization in order to achieve hemostasis in patients with massive hemoptysis. Materials and Methods: A retrospective review of histories and interventional studies of 56 patients…
Merces Assumpcao-Morales, Maria Milan, Vinuta Mohan, Tasneem Zahra
We are reporting a case of a patient found to be pregnant in the setting of panhypopituitarism. There are an only few reports of spontaneous pregnancy in patients with panhypopituitarism. This is a 26-year-old female who was admitted due to symptomatic hypogl…
Elsa de J. Hernández Fuentes, Bernardo Ng, Irma A. González Hernández
Introduction: Studying the use of psychoactive substances in completed suicide is essential in order to understand its role in the suicide generating stimuli. The most commonly reported substances are alcohol and opioids. Method: This is a retrospective study…
Mounira El Euch, Fatma Ben Fredj Ismail, Amel Rezgui, Monia Karmani, Belgacen Mrad, Hassen Hosi Mhiri, Chedia Laouani Kechrid
A 57-year-old female was admitted with pancytopenia, and mild splenomegaly. The multiple myeloma diagnosis was wrongly made since the discovery of monoclonal peak to the protein electrophoresis. Further microscopic examination of bone marrow revealed the accu…
Mounira El Euch, Ben Fredj Ismail Fatma, Rezgui Amel, Karmani Monia, Derbali Fatma, Amri Raja, Laouani Kechrid Chedia
Although cardiac involvement during Behcet syn drome is uncommon and intracardiac thrombosis is ex ceptional, it concerns the right ventricle much more than the left one. We report an illustrative case of left intracardiac thrombosis revealing Behcet’s diseas…
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