Background: Necrotizing tonsillitis is rare and may lead to life-threatening upper airway obstruction in children, requiring emergency airway management.
Case Presentation: An 8-month-old boy presented with unresolved fever and was diagnosed with acute tonsillitis. Despite prior treatment with amoxicillin and paracetamol, the fever persisted, accompanied by leukopenia.
Healthcare (Basel)
April 2024
fungemia is rare and highly resistant to antifungal therapy. We herein report a case involving a 31-year-old male admitted after a high-velocity road traffic accident. He sustained a grade IV liver injury with right hepatic vein thrombosis, which necessitated an urgent laparotomy.
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December 2022
is a rare pathogen leading to nosocomial and central nervous system infections. Despite having a low virulence and being a rare organism to cause bacteremia, it can evolve into a multidrug-resistant organism and lead to mortality and morbidity in the intensive care setting. A 64-year-old male gardener was presented with extensive acute subarachnoid hemorrhage with intraventricular extension causing hydrocephalus requiring embolization and coiling following a cerebral angiogram, which showed bilateral posterior circulation aneurysm and left anterior circulation aneurysm.
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