Allergy/Immunology
- Cryptosporidiosis in an immunosuppressed patient with persistent diarrhea
A 29-year-old lung transplant recipient presents with diarrhea lasting 1 month.
- Fever in a lung transplant recipient
A 36-year-old woman presents with high fevers, chills, nausea, decreased oral intake, and diarrhea.
- The effect of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs on vaccine immunogenicity in adults
Patients can have variable responses to vaccines, depending on the vaccine and the DMARD.
- A sneaky vascular disease
Cholesterol embolization syndrome may provide insights into atherosclerotic disease.
- SARS-CoV-2 and myocardial injury: Few answers, many questions
What is the mechanism? Is this a distinct population? What are the treatment options?
- Cytokines and the still-baffling clinical biology of COVID-19
The primary culprit is not certain. Is it all immune damage, or is the continued persistence of coronavirus playing a role?
- Cytokine storm and the prospects for immunotherapy with COVID-19
Despite gaping holes in our knowledge, treatment is evolving.
- Mönckeberg medial sclerosis
A man with chronic kidney disease presents with pain and ulceration of the fingers.