The infectious disease Lassa fever can be fatal, and there is a lack of treatment options with proven efficacy. Researchers at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) and the ...
A dedicated temperature management machine dampened the risk of fever for stroke patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), though this did not translate into better functional outcomes months later ...
What additional studies should you order? Urine culture and lumbar puncture with cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), herpes simplex virus polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Where can you get a brief tutorial ...
Dengue fever has been circulating in the tropics for centuries, and for most of U.S. history it was a disease that Americans ...
Yellow fever is a viral disease that is spread to humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes. The symptoms range from mild fever-like aches and pains to severe liver disease with bleeding, often ...
Dr. Peter W. Croughan (Medicine): A 67-year-old man was admitted to this hospital because of fever, myalgias, and one previous episode of vomiting. Nine months before this admission, the patient was ...
A man in his late 70s is brought to the emergency department (ED) with confusion and a fever that has gradually progressed over the last few days. The patient has a history of atrial fibrillation that ...