ALLMedicine™ Actinomycosis Center

Jun 16th, 2020 - A 60-year-old woman had blood-stained discharge with intermittent hemolacria from the left eye, of 3 months duration. The ophthalmic examination showed a firm, nontender, and immobile mass in the left lacrimal sac region. The sac regurgitation tes...

Jun 13th, 2020 - BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to report the clinical diagnosis and treatment of a case of pelvic actinomycosis in our hospital and provide a review of recent literature. CASE REPORT The patient was a 54-year-old woman who was admitted to ou...

May 29th, 2020 - Cervicofacial actinomycosis remains a rare pathogenic finding in the paediatric population. Diagnosis is challenging, as findings are often non-specific and Actinomyces species are generally difficult to culture. Treatment is a prolonged course of...

May 28th, 2020 - Brain abscesses are the rare and most severe form of actinomycosis, which usually manifests as abscesses of the occipital or parietal lobe due to direct expansion from an adjacent area, the oral cavity. In the medical literature, there are only a ...

May 27th, 2020 - End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients are a commonly overlooked immunocompromised population that places them at risk for rare infections. We describe the case of a 78-year-old man with a history of ESKD managed with thrice weekly in-center hem...

Jun 16th, 2020 - A 60-year-old woman had blood-stained discharge with intermittent hemolacria from the left eye, of 3 months duration. The ophthalmic examination showed a firm, nontender, and immobile mass in the left lacrimal sac region. The sac regurgitation tes...

Jun 13th, 2020 - BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to report the clinical diagnosis and treatment of a case of pelvic actinomycosis in our hospital and provide a review of recent literature. CASE REPORT The patient was a 54-year-old woman who was admitted to ou...

May 29th, 2020 - Cervicofacial actinomycosis remains a rare pathogenic finding in the paediatric population. Diagnosis is challenging, as findings are often non-specific and Actinomyces species are generally difficult to culture. Treatment is a prolonged course of...

May 28th, 2020 - Brain abscesses are the rare and most severe form of actinomycosis, which usually manifests as abscesses of the occipital or parietal lobe due to direct expansion from an adjacent area, the oral cavity. In the medical literature, there are only a ...

May 27th, 2020 - End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients are a commonly overlooked immunocompromised population that places them at risk for rare infections. We describe the case of a 78-year-old man with a history of ESKD managed with thrice weekly in-center hem...

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.