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The Mycoplasma Comeback: Why This Atypical Pneumonia is Back – A PEMCurrents Podcast

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Learning Objectives Describe the clinical presentation, epidemiology, and complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in pediatric patients, including its atypical manifestations. Clin Infect Dis 2019; 68:13. Now some patients can develop severe pulmonary complications, fortunately those are rare.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

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At that point, he was referred to pulmonology who started the patient on albuterol, manual chest physiotherapy, and a steroid inhaler with a plan for a fourth chest x-ray four weeks later. On arrival, the patient was febrile to 38.3C. Bronchopulmonary sequestration Our patient was diagnosed with bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS).

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Arsenicum album for Kerala school students: a bogus prophylaxis

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Even a basic understanding of chemistry, biology, and physics is enough to debunk the concepts in this pseudoscience. One trial was conducted to find whether it is effective in fever on children post-DPT vaccination, another one on neonatal calf diarrhea (an animal study), and the last one on its effect on patients with Arsenic toxicity (4).