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Scientific reports on the association between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in patients with COVID-19 and mortality have not been in agreement. In this nationwide study, we described and analyzed the demographic and clinical characteristics of people living with HIV (PLWH) and established that HIV infection is a risk factor for mortality in patients hospitalized due to COVID-19. We collected data from the National Hospital Data Information System at Hospitalization between 2020 and 2022. We included patients admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of COVID-19. We established a cohort of patients with PLWH and compared them to patients without HIV (non-PLWH). For multivariate analyses, we performed binary logistic regression, using mortality as the dependent variable. To improve the interpretability of the results we also applied penalized regression and random forest, two well-known machine-learning algorithms. A broad range of comorbidities, as well as sex and age data, were included in the final model as adjusted estimators. Our data of 1,188,160 patients included 6,973 PLWH. The estimated hospitalization rate in this set was between 1.43% and 1.70%, while the rate among the general population was 0.83%. Among patients with COVID-19, HIV infection was a risk factor for mortality with an odds ratio (OR) of 1.25 (95% CI, 1.14-1.37, p < 0.001). PLWH are more likely to be hospitalized due to COVID-19 than are non-PLWH. PLWH are 25% more likely to die due to COVID-19 than non-PLWH. Our results highlight that PLWH should be considered a population at risk for both hospitalization and mortality.
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Atypical pneumonia shows clinical features that are different from those of typical pneumonia, and it can mimic other entities. We report the case of a 42-year-old male with a solitary pulmonary nodule found in an X-ray for a preoperative evaluation. Our patient was asymptomatic, and a pulmonary neoplasm was the first diagnostic suspicion. The round-shaped nodule seen in the X-ray turned out to be a linear ground glass opacity in a thoracic CT scan. Viral pneumonia due to SARS-CoV-2 was diagnosed. We emphasize here the educational value of this case report. We do not report a new radiological finding because lung nodules resembling neoplasms have already been reported in the medical literature. However, some clinical features of COVID-19 are relatively new and can mimic other entities, and the results of some investigations and clinicians' interpretations of them can be misleading. Atypical radiological findings make it necessary to widen the spectrum of alternative diagnoses.
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Abscess/diagnostic imaging , Buttocks/microbiology , Gas Gangrene/diagnosis , Soft Tissue Infections/diagnosis , Abscess/drug therapy , Abscess/microbiology , Abscess/surgery , Buttocks/pathology , Clostridium Infections/drug therapy , Clostridium perfringens/isolation & purification , Debridement/methods , Female , Gas Gangrene/etiology , Humans , Injections, Intramuscular/adverse effects , Middle Aged , Necrosis , Soft Tissue Infections/drug therapy , Soft Tissue Infections/microbiology , Soft Tissue Infections/surgery , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
Fusobacterium necrophorum is the oropharyngeal pathogen usually associated with Lemierre's syndrome, a pharyngeal infection which evolves to sepsis, septic emboli and thrombophlebitis of the adjacent neck vessels. It is an uncommon causative bacteria of a liver abscess, and an extensive workup should, therefore, be performed in order to rule out potential sources of the infection. This case report describes the workup that led to the diagnosis of a colorectal carcinoma, which was deemed to be the source of the Fusobacterium bacteraemia.
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Abdominal Pain/microbiology , Bacteremia/microbiology , Fusobacterium Infections/microbiology , Fusobacterium necrophorum/isolation & purification , Liver Abscess/microbiology , Sepsis/microbiology , Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use , Ceftriaxone/therapeutic use , Fusobacterium Infections/complications , Fusobacterium Infections/drug therapy , Humans , Liver Abscess/complications , Liver Abscess/drug therapy , Male , Metronidazole/therapeutic use , Middle Aged , Nausea/microbiology , Penicillanic Acid/analogs & derivatives , Penicillanic Acid/therapeutic use , Piperacillin/therapeutic use , Piperacillin, Tazobactam Drug Combination , Sepsis/drug therapy , Treatment Outcome , Vomiting/microbiologyABSTRACT
Lymphatic malformations, also known as lymphangiomas or cystic hygromas, are benign masses that typically affect newborns and infants and involve the head and neck regions. They are, however, rare in adults and even rarer in the axillary region. Although surgery is considered to be the treatment of choice, we present a rare case of a recurrent cystic hygroma 32 years after the first surgical operation. Due to the cosmetic concerns and the risks of a surgical approach, non-surgical therapy with percutaneous sclerosants was performed, with a good outcome after a 2-year follow-up period.
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Lymphangioma, Cystic/therapy , Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/therapy , Soft Tissue Neoplasms/therapy , Adult , Axilla , Female , HumansABSTRACT
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