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Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is an obscure disease that is usually diagnosed after the exclusion of other febrile diseases, including other autoimmune, infectious, and malignant diseases. Although definitive diagnostic criteria...
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is the main cause of most gastroduodenal diseases. Triple therapy including two antibiotics, amoxicillin and clarithromycin, and a proton pump inhibitor given for a week has...
Small bowel obstructions (SBOs) that develop for various reasons often require prompt medical treatment. Migration of a gastric bezoar (indigestible foreign material that has accumulated in the stomach) is a...
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membrane-bound vesicles produced and released into the extracellular fluid by cells under physiological and stressful conditions. They play a role as intracellular communicators by carrying and...
Ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory bowel disease, often exhibits extra-intestinal manifestations including various dermatological problems. Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a painful ulcerative cutaneous disorder characterized by the development of rapidly enlarging...
Clinical manifestations of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is diverse ranging from asymptomatic or mild respiratory symptoms to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and respiratory failure. As the pandemic progresses,...
Immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4)-related kidney disease is a chronic immune-mediated fibro-inflammatory disorder characterized by multiple organ infiltration with IgG4-positive plasma cells, storiform fibrosis, and obliterative phlebitis or tumefactive lesions. Previous studies...
Considerable efforts have been made to prevent and manage hypertension and diabetes, but the prevalence of these diseases has not changed significantly over the past 10 years. Hypertension and diabetes...
Background/Aims: Beta-lactam (BL) antibiotics are widely prescribed for controlling bacterial infections and relevant culprits of adverse drug reactions (ADRs). BL allergy may vary according to prescription patterns within a given...