Journal•ISSN: 1757-790X
Case Reports
BMJ
About: Case Reports is an academic journal published by BMJ. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Medicine & Abdominal pain. It has an ISSN identifier of 1757-790X. Over the lifetime, 27187 publications have been published receiving 105321 citations. The journal is also known as: British medical journal case reports.
Topics: Medicine, Abdominal pain, Chest pain, Abdomen, Rare disease
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TL;DR: Paediatricians need to be aware of the possibility of ARVC in adolescents and young adults presenting with palpitations, fatigue, syncope or cardiac arrest, and the authors present two cases of apparently healthy teenage boys who died suddenly and unexpectedly.
Abstract: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is a rare inherited disease of the heart muscle that causes ventricular tachyarrhythmias and sudden death in young people and athletes. It results in fibrofatty replacement of the right ventricle, and the subepicardial region of the left ventricle. It is the most common cause of sudden cardiac death in young people after hypertrophic heart disease. Diagnosis can be difficult and at present there is no cure for ARVC. Prevention of sudden death is the most important management strategy. Paediatricians need to be aware of the possibility of ARVC in adolescents and young adults presenting with palpitations, fatigue, syncope or cardiac arrest. The authors present two cases of apparently healthy teenage boys who died suddenly and unexpectedly. Postmortem examination of the myocardium was strongly suggestive of ARVC in both cases.
467 citations
TL;DR: The CARE (CAse REport) guidelines for case report guidelines as mentioned in this paper were developed by a three-phase consensus process consisting of pre-meeting literature review and interviews to generate items for the reporting guidelines, a face-to-face consensus meeting to draft the reporting guideline, and postmeeting feedback, review and pilot testing, followed by finalisation of the case report guideline.
Abstract: A case report is a narrative that describes, for medical, scientific or educational purposes, a medical problem experienced by one or more patients. Case reports written without guidance from reporting standards are insufficiently rigorous to guide clinical practice or to inform clinical study design. Develop, disseminate and implement systematic reporting guidelines for case reports. We used a three-phase consensus process consisting of (1) premeeting literature review and interviews to generate items for the reporting guidelines, (2) a face-to-face consensus meeting to draft the reporting guidelines and (3) postmeeting feedback, review and pilot testing, followed by finalisation of the case report guidelines. This consensus process involved 27 participants and resulted in a 13-item checklist—a reporting guideline for case reports. The primary items of the checklist are title, key words, abstract, introduction, patient information, clinical findings, timeline, diagnostic assessment, therapeutic interventions, follow-up and outcomes, discussion, patient perspective and informed consent. We believe the implementation of the CARE (CAse REport) guidelines by medical journals will improve the completeness and transparency of published case reports and that the systematic aggregation of information from case reports will inform clinical study design, provide early signals of effectiveness and harms, and improve healthcare delivery.
290 citations
TL;DR: This report explores plausible reasons for this sex difference in mortality from COVID-19 including the contribution of underlying cardiovascular risk factors, high risk behaviors, immune response and biological differences between men and women.
Abstract: Sex-disaggregated data are important for reducing health inequities in medicine. Global data suggest that there is a sex difference in mortality from the 2019 novel coronavirus disease. In this report, we explore plausible reasons for this sex difference, including the contribution of underlying cardiovascular risk factors, high-risk behaviors, immune response, and biological differences between men and women. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)
256 citations
TL;DR: A 54-year-old patient with a severe anxiety disorder and secondary depressive disorder in whom bilateral deep brain stimulation of the nucleus accumbens was carried out observes a remarkable although not primarily intended alleviation of the patient’s comorbid alcohol dependency.
Abstract: Chronic consumption of alcohol represents one of the greatest health and socioeconomic problems worldwide. We report on a 54-year-old patient with a severe anxiety disorder and secondary depressive disorder in whom bilateral deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the nucleus accumbens was carried out. Despite the absence of desired improvement in his primary disorder, we observed a remarkable although not primarily intended alleviation of the patient’s comorbid alcohol dependency. Our case report demonstrates the extremely effective treatment of alcohol dependency by means of DBS of the nucleus accumbens and may reveal new prospects in overcoming therapy resistance in dependencies in general.
151 citations
TL;DR: A 67-year-old female presented with upper respiratory symptoms and was diagnosed with COVID-19 and found to have a large hemorrhagic pericardial effusion with echocardiographic signs of tamponade and mild left ventricular impairment.
Abstract: A 67-year-old woman presented with upper respiratory symptoms and was diagnosed with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). She was found to have a large hemorrhagic pericardial effusion wit...
149 citations