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Case Reports
A 51-Year-Old Man With Unresolved Pulmonary Infiltrates Following Streptococcus pneumoniae Pneumonia.
A 51-year-old man presented to the clinic 8 weeks after a 6-day hospital admission for severe multilobar pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. His productive cough resolved after antibiotics, but he reported persistent dyspnea. He recounted a lifelong history of recurrent sinusitis but no previous episodes of pneumonia. ⋯ He worked as an upholstery craftsman with no work-related exposures. He had no bird or exotic animal exposures, and no history of travel outside Sacramento, California, where he lived. Aside from the recently completed 2-week course of levofloxacin, he was not taking any medications.
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VTE has emerged as a major public health problem. However, data on VTE burden in China are seldom reported. ⋯ The hospitalization rates of VTE increased steadily, and the mortality declined. This study provides important information on the disease burden of VTE in China.
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A 27-year-old Lebanese man was admitted to our department for multiple pulmonary lesions. The patient had reported persistent fever, cough, shortness of breath, and weight loss since his return from Lebanon 6 weeks earlier. He had been diagnosed with a severe form of Behçet disease 4 years ago, for which the ongoing treatment was a corticosteroid therapy associated with methotrexate and infliximab.