Infectious Diseases
- Ring-enhancing cerebral lesions
The patient has poorly controlled HIV, seizures, and brain lesions. Is Histoplasma or Toxoplasma the cause of the lesions?
- A rose by any other name is still a rose—but why a rose?
Christopher Columbus returned from the New World with a chronic illness, now believed to have been reactive arthritis.
- When should brain imaging precede lumbar puncture in cases of suspected bacterial meningitis?
Few patients need it. Empiric antibiotic and corticosteroid therapy must not be delayed.
- Man’s best friend, fatal in the end
A dog bite in a patient without a spleen can have serious consequences.
- Disseminated molluscum contagiosum lesions in an HIV patient
The patient was diagnosed with HIV-related encephalopathy and disseminated Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.