Journal of Medical Case Reports

• Improvement of ADHD in Three Men During Testosterone Treatment Might a moderately reduced serum level of free testosterone be a contributing factor to ADHD symptoms in some adult men?
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, January 27, 2023
• Cosmetic Surgery Abroad Leads to a M. Abscessus Infection This case highlights the potential dangers of receiving cosmetic surgery abroad, especially in countries where infection control measures might be inadequate.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, January 20, 2023
• High-dose Intravenous Glucocorticoid Induces Hyperamylasemia These four patients developed hyperamylasemia following high-dose intravenous glucocorticoid. What might have been the underlying mechanism?
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, December 05, 2022
• Remission of Myxedema Psychosis After Levothyroxine Treatment This case demonstrates that myxedema psychosis can be treated successfully with levothyroxine and minimal antipsychotic medication.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, November 28, 2022
• Ivabradine Toxicity: A Case Report How was ivabradine toxicity confirmed in this case of a patient with bradycardia, near syncope and dizziness?
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, November 21, 2022
• Tocilizumab for Relapsing and Remitting Giant Cell Arteritis This case series highlights the development and delivery of an effective hub and referral pathway for the use of tocilizumab in patients with refractory or relapsing giant cell arteritis.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, November 14, 2022
• Solar Maculopathy From the Screen of Mobile Devices These cases of solar maculopathy after prolonged reading on mobile devices in strong sunlight highlight the risk of increased solar radiation and sunlight reflection from display screens.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, November 01, 2022
• Rehabilitation Therapy for a Severe Case of COVID-19 This case describes the beneficial effects of rehabilitation therapy in a patient with severe COVID-19 infection, focusing on nutrition and supervised exercise.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, October 25, 2022
• Acute Pancreatitis in Pregnancy Following COVID-19 Vaccine This pregnant patient with no known risk factors for pancreatitis developed acute pancreatitis after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Was the vaccine the cause?
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, October 18, 2022
• Encephalomyelitis Associated With Coronavirus Disease 2019 This case highlights the need to be aware of longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis as a manifestation of COVID-19. In this patient, LETM was followed by post-COVID encephalomyelitis.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, October 04, 2022
• An Unusual Presentation of Anaphylaxis With Severe Hypertension Anaphylaxis is usually associated with low blood pressure, but this unusual case highlights the need to be aware that it may present with elevated BP as well.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, September 27, 2022
• Hypereosinophilic Syndrome Following Asymptomatic COVID-19 Did this patient's asymptomatic COVID-19 infection contribute to the exacerbation of acute idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome?
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, September 20, 2022
• ACS in an 8-year-old Child With Familial Hypercholesterolemia This 8-year old presenting with acute coronary syndrome and familial hypercholesterolemia was successfully treated with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, September 09, 2022
• Pseudoprogression in NSCLC Treated With Combo Chemotherapy This case highlights the potential of pseudoprogression in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors, either alone or in combination with cytotoxic therapy.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, September 02, 2022
• Recurrent SCC in a Patient With Xeroderma Pigmentosum The report emphasizes the importance of early diagnosis of xeroderma pigmentosum and presents a novel causative mutation revealed by whole-exome sequencing.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, August 26, 2022
• Microdose Cannabinoid Extract Ameliorates Alzheimer's Symptoms Might cannabinoid microdosing be effective in improving memory and brain functions in mild Alzheimer disease, as this case suggests?
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, August 19, 2022
• Acute Pleural Effusion, a Rare Presentation of Hepatitis A While hepatitis A virus infections are usually asymptomatic, this case demonstrates acute pleural effusion as a rare but benign extrahepatic complication of HAV acute hepatitis.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, August 05, 2022
• Psychiatric Reaction of a COVID-19 ICU Survivor This paper describes a complex case of acute COVID-19 in the intensive care unit associated with delirium and psychiatric issues, leading to incipient post-traumatic stress disorder.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, July 29, 2022
• Dermatologic Manifestations in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome This case of atypical generalized ulceration formation in the setting of complex regional pain syndrome details the extensive workup for dermatologic manifestations of CRPS.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, July 22, 2022
• SVT as a Possible Consequence of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Vaccine This report suggests that superficial venous thrombosis may be an addition to the list of adverse events associated with ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (Covishield) vaccine.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, July 14, 2022
• Closed-chest Management of a Fungal-infected Aortic Graft This case demonstrates that infected prosthetic aortic grafts can be successfully managed with robotic-assisted, minimally invasive debridement via a closed-chest approach.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, July 07, 2022
• Myocarditis, Thyroiditis After Astrazeneca COVID-2019 Vaccine Myocarditis following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination has been widely described, but this is the first reported case following the administration of the AstraZeneca adenoviral vector COVID-19 vaccine.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, June 30, 2022
• The Significance of Widely Split P Waves This case highlights the need to be aware that the presence of widely split P waves on an ECG may proceed to more serious cardiac arrhythmias during an anesthetic procedure.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, June 23, 2022
• Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Adults This case report explores the clinical features and possible pathophysiological basis of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults, secondary to SARS-CoV-2 infection.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, May 12, 2022
• Drug-induced Acute Pancreatitis in a Bodybuilder Was a "drug cocktail" of anabolic-androgenic steroids and growth hormones the cause of this bodybuilder's acute pancreatitis?
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, May 10, 2022