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  1. Aspergillosis is a common fungus that lives in soil and decaying vegetation. Inhalation of the spores causes infection mostly in immunocompromised patients. Invasive aspergillosis has an extremely high mortali...

    Authors: Hamdy Ibrahim, Safwat Abdel Maksod, Magdy Khorshed, Hanan Rady, Ahmed Alsisi, Adel Mohamed, Nasser Fouad, Ayman Hamed, Mohamed Hosny and Alaaa Al Amir
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:69
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  2. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, an X-linked disorder that is more common in males, is the most prevalent blood enzyme deficiency, affecting 5% of the population worldwide. Its prevalence i...

    Authors: Ahmad AlShomar, Idris Sula, Waleed Al Abdulmonem and Nazmus Saquib
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:68
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  3. Post-COVID-19 survivors may experience long-term symptoms known as Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS). The PCAS symptom spectrum includes a wide range of symptoms affecting different organs. The prevalence an...

    Authors: Ahmed Azzam and Heba Khaled
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:67
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  4. Role of Long non-coding RNAs in cancer research in the recent years have been highlighted with evidence to their involvement in cancer disease pathogenesis and progression. One of these emerging long non-codin...

    Authors: Nour Mohammed Rasheed, Howaida Attia Nounou, Soad Mohamed Eltabakh, Nahla A. M. Hamed and Ayman Ahmed Darwish
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:66
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  5. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by insulin resistance (IR) and hyperglycemia. The development of inflammatory disorders in T2DM triggers the activation of differen...

    Authors: Hayder M. Al-kuraishy, Ali I. Al-Gareeb, Majid S. Jabir and Salim Albukhaty
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:65
    Content type: Review Published on:

  6. Diabetic kidney disease is a major microvascular complication of diabetes mellitus and is the leading cause of end-stage renal disease all over the world. The general recommendation for the subjects with DM is...

    Authors: Ahmed E. Mansour, Rasha O. Abdelmoniem, Ayman M. Elbadawy and Walaa M. Ibrahim
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:64
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  7. Meningococcal meningitis (MM) is a medical emergency that progresses rapidly to cause life-threatening organ failure, and a high level of suspicion is required for early diagnosis and intervention with antibio...

    Authors: Hamdy Ibrahim, Safwat Abdel Maksod, Magdy Khorshed, Ahmed Alsisi, Nasser Fouad, Hanan Rady, Alaaa Al Amir, Adel Mohamed and Mohamed Hosny
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:63
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  8. Celiac disease, an autoimmune condition triggered by gluten-containing diet, is known to primarily manifest as intestinal symptoms, but can also lead to extraintestinal complications, including endocrine abnor...

    Authors: Hameed Haidar Khan, Imran Ullah, Javeria Rufaq, Qaiser Wadood, Imad Majeed and Salman Khan
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:62
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  9. Myalgia is one of the most common symptoms of COVID-19 infection. With the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic, emerging cases of COVID-related myositis have been reported. However, COVID-19-related myositis ...

    Authors: Watsachon Pangkanon, Natnicha Leelaviwat, Sakditad Saowapa, En-Dien Liao and J. Drew Payne
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:61
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  10. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a chronic progressive, ocular disease affecting the retinal microvasculature accompanied by hyperglycaemia and different situations related to diabetes mellitus (DM) such as hypert...

    Authors: Salwa Seddik Hosny, Merhan Samy Nasr, Moataz M. W. Abd Elfattah, Samar Helmy Abdel Dayem and Rana Hashem Ibrahim
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:60
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  11. Agranulocytosis is a rare and life-threatening side effect of antithyroid drugs (ATD); it has been reported in < 0.2% of patients, usually within the first 3 months after starting ATD. We present a 62-year-old...

    Authors: Hawa Juma El-Shareif
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:59
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  12. Diabetes has become a serious health concern for the global population. An estimated 643 million people will have type 2 diabetes mellitus by the year 2030. A sedentary lifestyle is one of the important risk f...

    Authors: Bhupinder Singh, Yogitha Chowdary Koneru, Holden Zimmerman, Sai Gautham Kanagala, Indigo Milne, Anirudh Sethi and Rohit Jain
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:58
    Content type: Review Published on:

  13. Graves’ disease is the most common cause of thyrotoxicosis worldwide. Patient characteristics may vary according to ethnicity, iodine status, and age. Studies on characterization of Graves’ disease in Egypt ar...

    Authors: Tamer Mohamed Elsherbiny
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:57
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  14. Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), many studies have been conducted on clinical features, laboratory parameters, treatment, and anticoagulation therapy. However, there is a scarcity of ...

    Authors: Manthan Prajapati, Madhav Oza, Mansi Bhagat, Mrudangsinh M. Rathod and Mehul Ramanbhai Marwadi
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:56
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  16. The present study was performed to evaluate the pooled prevalence of the venous thromboembolism (VTE) and the factors affecting its incidence in patients who are affected with coronavirus disease (Covid-19).

    Authors: Mohammad Reza Sobhiyeh, Yahya Salimi and Zeinab Tardeh
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:54
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  17. Amyloidosis is a rare condition where fibrillar proteins and abnormal, soluble peptides accumulate throughout the body’s organs. Gastrointestinal symptoms secondary to amyloid deposition vary widely and may be...

    Authors: Mahmod Ghoname, Hazem Abosheaishaa, Mostafa Shehata, Mohammed Abdelwahed and Moataz Yousry Soliman
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:53
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  20. We report here a case of 56-year-old male presented to emergency with acute onset severe abdominal pain in right lumbar region and with significant past history diabetes mellitus and ischemic heart disease on ...

    Authors: D. Saikiran, V. K. Srinivas, R. S. Vasantha Kumar, Nilu Sunil and M. Harismitha
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:50
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  21. First implemented in the 1950s, telemedicine is a rapidly evolving tool for healthcare systems around the world. Technological advancement and increasing access to information technology have made the implemen...

    Authors: Mason Stoltzfus, Arshdeep Kaur, Avantika Chawla, Vasu Gupta, F. N. U. Anamika and Rohit Jain
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:49
    Content type: Review Published on:

  22. Immunotherapy medicines (immune checkpoint inhibitors, ICIs) that work directly on the immune system have shown vastly increased survival for people with cancer in phases 2 and 3 clinical studies during the pa...

    Authors: Bahaaeldin Baraka, Hazem Abosheaishaa and Mahmoud Nassar
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:48
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  23. Colonic Dieulafoy’s lesions (DLs) are an extremely rare cause of acute gastrointestinal bleeding. However, it could be presented from self-limiting, mild bleeding episodes up to recurrent, massive life-threate...

    Authors: Mohamed-Naguib Wifi, Abeer Abdellatef and Amr Maged Lasheen
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:47
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  24. Workers in the healthcare industry form the backbone of health systems everywhere. In the face of global health crises like the current monkeypox (mpox) outbreak, healthcare workers like doctors, dentists, pha...

    Authors: AbdulRahman A. Saied, Deepak Chandran, Sandip Chakraborty, Talha Bin Emran and Kuldeep Dhama
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:46
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  25. Thyroid nodules are highly prevalent in the general population; therefore, it is crucial to discriminate benign from malignant nodules. A practical thyroid imaging reporting and data system (TI-RADS) for thyro...

    Authors: Hussein Hassan Okasha, Mona Mansor, Nermine Sheriba, Yasmine Abdelfattah, Dalia Abdelfatah, Hussein El Orabi, Ibrahim N. Elebrashy, Aasem Saif, Amr A. El Meligi, Mostafa Elshazli, Khaled Elsayed Elhadidy, Manal M. Abushady, Elham E. Islam, Tarek M. Yosef, Ahmed Saad El Din Salama, Tarek I. Ouf…
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:45
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  27. Sweet has always been a fundamental human taste, and while glucose and other kinds of sugar are our primary energy sources, they can also have detrimental effects on health, including weight gain, obesity, car...

    Authors: Sandeep Singh, Aditya Kohli, Stuti Trivedi, Sai Gautham Kanagala, F. N. U. Anamika, Nikita Garg, Meet A. Patel, Ripudaman Singh Munjal and Rohit Jain
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:43
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  29. Infection with tuberculosis (TB) still considered a leading infectious cause of death, osteomyelitis TB rare entity, and being extraspinal MDR-TB make it very rare case; most of experience in treating osteomye...

    Authors: Naser Naser, Habib Abdulla and Husain Kadhem
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:41
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  30. Serotonin syndrome (SS) is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition, and it is caused by increasing serotonergic activities. It is an underdiagnosed and under-reported condition. Clinical manifestatio...

    Authors: Hamdy Ibrahim, Safwat Abdel Maksod, Magdy Khorshed, Hanan Rady, Ahmed Alsisi, Adel Mohamed, Omar Alkassas, Marwa Haron and Suzan Saied
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:40
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  31. Malignant hypertension is a model of the rapid changes that a high afterload and renin-angiotensin levels can induce on target organs such as the heart. We present a case of a young man affected by malignant h...

    Authors: Giulia Nardi, Silvia Menale, Valentina Scheggi and Niccolò Marchionni
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:39
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  32. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the fastest growing cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. The prevalence of NAFLD increases in parallel with the increasing prevalence in obesity, metabolic synd...

    Authors: Abeer Abdel-latif, Ula Mabid Al-Jarhi, Dina Hesham, Mona khozam and Shaimaa A. Fathy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:38
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  33. Leishmaniasis is a protozoal infection transmitted by sandfly vector; there are three main types of leishmaniasis: cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL), and visceral leishmaniasis (V...

    Authors: Hamdi Ibrahim, Khairy Abd El Hamid, Tarek Abd El Aziz, Ahmed Samir El bahwashy, Hamed Khattab, Basma Aaref and Essam Elsayed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:37
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  34. Death from unexpected circulatory arrest within 60 min of onset of symptom is known as sudden cardiac death (SCD). In spite of the advancement in treatment and prevention strategies, SCD remains the most commo...

    Authors: Meet A. Patel, Anisha Malhotra, Franck H. Moussinga Mpondo, Vasu Gupta, Rahul Jain, Sachin Gupta and Rohit Jain
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:36
    Content type: Review Published on:

  35. Necrotising granulomatous diseases of the lungs exhibit a narrow range of differential diagnoses. Tuberculosis accounts for most of these cases, while sarcoidosis is an uncommon entity in this group but both p...

    Authors: Khalifa Abdulrahman Yusuf, Shadi Fayez Kanhosh and Abdulrahman Hasan Al-Madani
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:35
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  39. Copeptin, the stable COOH-terminal portion of pre-provasopressin and a surrogate marker of vasopressin, was shown to be positively associated with the decline in kidney function in the general population. Howe...

    Authors: Nevein Nabil El-Soudany, Sahar Saad El-Din Bessa, Heba Ahmed Morad and Amal Abdel Moniem Selim
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:31
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  40. Secondary bacterial infections are an important cause of mortality in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). All healthcare providers acted with utmost care with the reflex of protecting themselves...

    Authors: Sema Sarı, Ferhat Arslan, Sema Turan, Tuğçe Mengi, Handan Ankaralı, Ahmet Sarı, Mine Altınkaya Çavuş, Çilem Bayındır Dicle, Derya Tatlısuluoğlu, Hüseyin Arıcan, Yahya Tahta and Haluk Vahaboğlu
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:30
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  41. Autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) is a curative treatment for patients with hematological malignancies. Melphalan either alone or in combination with other chemotherapeutic agents is a widely used pr...

    Authors: Mona Mahrous Abdelaty, Fatma Al-Hosiny and Raghda Gabr Mashaal
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:29
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  42. Hypothyroidism is a clinical condition caused by the deficiency of thyroid hormones that are T4 and T3 due to an increase in serum TSH level. The upper and lower limit of T4 and TSH helps to identify the disease....

    Authors: Hansi Sharma and Jagdish Kakadiya
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:28
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  44. A major advancement in the field of medicine has been the introduction and usage of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) such as dabigatran (Pradaxa), apixaban (Eliquis), and rivaroxaban (Xarelto). DOACs have be...

    Authors: Sharon Wei, Aanchal Sawhney, Harshwardhan Khandait, Amit Meda, Vasu Gupta and Rohit Jain
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:26
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  45. Anti-n-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is a form of autoimmune encephalitis that remains under-recognized due to the variability of the initial symptoms and can be misdiagnosed as viral encephali...

    Authors: Hamdi Ibrahim, Attaa Ali, Safwat Abdel Maksod, Magdy Khorshed, Mona Wassef, Mostafa Alfishawy, Hanan Rady, Adel Mohamed, Mohamed Mahmod, Khaled Ismael, Marwa Haron, Suzan Said, Riham Adel and Noha Mohamed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:25
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  47. The pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) originates from multiple tissue defects. Environmental pollutants such like endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) have lately gotten special attention in tri...

    Authors: Yasmin Ibrahim Zanet, Enayat Mohamed Hashem, Mohammed Naguib Dessouky, Magdy Helmy Megalla and Iman Samy Dessouky
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:23
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  48. Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is one of the major causes of ESKD, and its complications are characterized by proteinuria, decreased glomerular filtration, and renal fibrosis resulting in the deterioration of renal...

    Authors: Amr M. Shaker, Maggie E. Mohamed, Tarek Ramzy and Mayssa I. Ali
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:22
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  49. With increasing healthcare demands for acute illness in patients especially in the times of pandemic, healthcare organizations require modern solutions. Hospital at home (HaH) is one such tool that has the pot...

    Authors: Sai Gautham Kanagala, Vasu Gupta, Sunita Kumawat, FNU Anamika, Brian McGillen and Rohit Jain
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:21
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  50. Mycoplasma pneumoniae is one of the leading causes of community-acquired pneumonia. Due to its microbiological variation, clinical presentations of mycoplasma infections are atypical and diverse. Multiple pulmona...

    Authors: Namitha Mohan, Vishal Dnyaneshwar Sawant and Alpana Kondekar
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine 2023 35:20
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