ALLMedicine™ Actinomycosis Center

Jul 25th, 2021 - A male patient, aged over 75 years, was referred to the emergency room for pain in his right hypochondrium. This pain, which persisted for approximately 3 days, radiated to his right flank and right iliac quadrant and worsened after meals. The pat...

Jul 17th, 2021 - Actinomycosis is a rare disease caused by Actinomyces spp. The clinical and radiological picture of the disease is uncharacter-istic, which delays the diagnosis and can lead to complications. We present a case of pulmonary actinomycosis complicate...

Jul 16th, 2021 - Actinomycosis is a rare, indolent and invasive infection caused by Actinomyces species. Pulmonary actinomycosis is very rarely seen in the paediatric population. The classic radiological presentation of thoracic involvement of actinomycosis includ...

Jul 15th, 2021 - Actinomycosis is a subacute-to-chronic bacterial infection caused by gram-positive, filamentous, non-acid-fast, facultative anaerobic bacteria. It is a normal commensal bacterium found in the oral cavity and the lower reproductive tract of women. ...

Jun 7th, 2021 - Actinomyces spp. are members of normal oral flora that may give rise to a rare disease- oral actinomycosis . Here we present a case of early implant failure associated with actinomycosis in an otherwise -healthy 43-year-old female and the treatmen...

Oct 31st, 2016 - “IN WHICH CLINICAL SITUATIONS CAN THE USE OF THE 52-MG LEVONORGESTREL-RELEASING IUD (MIRENA) AND THE TCU380A COPPER-IUD (PARAGARD) BE EXTENDED?” ROBERT L. BARBIERI, MD (SEPTEMBER 2016) Extended-use IUDs and infection risk For some time now I have.

Nov 13th, 2015 - Immunosuppression associated with treatment following renal transplantation was the primary cause of M chelonae infection in our patient, as has previously been reported in the literature. 3-4 This was further supported by the lack of prior trauma.

Oct 29th, 2014 - Action Points Among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), treatment with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibiting agents was associated with decreased rates of malignancy compared with those taking nonbiologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic dru...

Sep 30th, 2011 - Differential Diagnosis It is not unheard of for all of the infections listed above to be mistaken for malignancies, because cancer is common and these infections are rare. Actinomycosis is notable for eroding through, rather than along, tissue pla...