Clinical suspicion
The criterion validity of the web-based Major Depression Inventory when used on clinical suspicion of depression in primary care
... are encouraging as the MDI depression scale appears to be a reasonable valid tool for diagnosing depression on clinical suspicion (ie, presence of two or three core symptoms of depression). This is an ...
11
Duplex scan in patients with clinical suspicion of deep venous thrombosis
... limb; and 25 were related to both lower limbs. Forty-eight patients presented a normal duplex scan. Venous throm- bosis was found in 117 patients (0.49; CI 0.43–0.55): 75 with DVT, 20 with both superficial venous ...
5
Diagnostic value of gas exchange tests in patients with clinical suspicion of pulmonary embolism
... The present data indicate that the measurement of arterial blood gases cannot be used, in itself, to confirm or exclude the diagnosis of PE, because of the large overlap of data between patients with and without PE. This ...
6
Bordetella pertussis: an underreported pathogen in pediatric respiratory infections, a prospective cohort study
... The clinical severity of pertussis infections may be modified by ...typical clinical symptoms [3,25] and de- pending on the efficacy of the vaccine ...
10
Subacute presentation of a large focal lesion: A case and literature review
... of clinical suspicion and a broad differential diagnostic acumen when facing the myriad of illnesses that present daily in busy hospitals and emergency rooms in countries the world over so as to ensure the ...
9
Influenza infection and risk of acute pulmonary embolism
... a clinical suspicion of pulmonary embolism and demonstrate that influenza A infection is rare among patients with a proven pulmo- nary embolism, while it does occur significantly more often in the group of ...
5
Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome in association with Abdominal Tuberculosis: An Eye Opener
... on clinical suspicion and is diagnosed by demonstration of obstruction at the third (transverse) part of the duodenum due to compression by the superior mesenteric artery, on ...
5
Update on the management of acute pharyngitis in children
... and to prevent suppurative and non suppurative sequelae. Thus, prudentially, we believe that paediatricians should perform at least one microbiological test (RADT or throat colture) in pharyngitis suspected for GABHS ...
7
Immunization in Canada: Update for 2015
... a possible false negative. Global chest compression and thoracic joint palpation were aggravating. Global active/ passive/resisted thoracic ranges of motion were severe- ly limited and painful. Based on the history and ...
7
WALL PLURISTRATIFICATION: A FURTHER ULTRASONOGRAPHIC SIGN OF ACUTE APPENDICITIS
... with clinical suspicion of appendicitis, especially when maximal outer diameter and ColorDoppler are not conclusive and peri- appendicular free fluid is not present, secondary evaluation of pattern ...
11
PRIMARY PANCREATIC LYMPHOMA: A CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW
... the clinical presentation of primary pan creatic lymphoma is non-specific, some findings may strengthen the clinical suspicion of lymphoma rather than pancreatic ...
6
Functional and molecular characterization of inherited platelet disorders in the Iberian Peninsula: results from a collaborative study
... with clinical suspicion of HPS, we se- lected HPS1 as the first candidate gene to be responsible for the disease, since it is the one most frequently affected ...the clinical suspicion of ...
12
Pathologic Rupture of the Spleen in Mantle-Cell-Type Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
... common clinical feature of splenic rupture is abdominal pain, which has been reported to be present in nearly 70 percent of ...the clinical suspicion of splenic rupture in patients with malignancy ...
5
Clinical Reasoning: Persistent respiratory failure following cardiac arrest
... Given the percussion myotonia, distal muscular atrophy, temporal wasting, bilateral ptosis, and cardiac arrhythmia/ cardiomyopathy of undetermined etiology, there was clinical suspicion [r] ...
6
Infective endocarditis causing mitral valve stenosis – a rare but deadly complication: a case report
... Case presentation: We report a case of a 23-year-old white woman with a history of intravenous drug abuse who presented with acute heart failure. Transthoracic echocardiography failed to show valvular vegetation, but ...
5
Yield of Muscle Biopsy in Patients with Findings of Myopathy on Electrodiagnostic Testing.
... Of the 15 patients suspected of a hereditary myopa- thy, 6 (40%) had dystrophic muscle biopsies. On the other hand, 12 out of 18 patients (66.7%) with an acquired myop- athy yielded a biopsy outcome correlating with the ...
5
Vol 28, No 3 (2015)
... of clinical suspicion regarding Hansen’s disease at the time of the clinical examination and the need for a neuropathological examination of different ...of clinical manifestations may even ...
5
Profile of Infective Endocarditis in Nigerian Children
... a clinical suspicion of IE are usually admitted to the Emergency Paediatric Unit (EPU) or directly to the Paediatric medical ward through the Paediatric cardiology ...on clinical response and blood ...
9
Sporadic, Nontrauma-Related, Desmoid Tumor of the Pancreas: A Rare Disease—Case Report and Literature Review
... Copyright © 2010 F. Polistina et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...
5
An unusual case of Cowden syndrome associated with ganglioneuromatous polyposis
... the clinical manifestations, and the clinical suspicion of Cowden syndrome could not be confirmed using Sanger Sequencing and MLPA for the analysis of PTEN ...
9