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Acute sinusitis has been defined by the American Academy of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery as a sinus infection in which symptoms last less than 4 weeks. If the symptoms persist beyond 12 ...
Adult RSV infection can manifest as a mild cold-like illness, but in some cases, it can lead to more severe respiratory complications such as pneumonia or bronchiolitis. Common symptoms include ...
Acute sinusitis is usually managed with a 10-day course of an appropriate antibiotic chosen empirically. Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae are common pathogens. Patients with ...
Patients and clinicians most often selected mucus symptoms to describe a sinus infection. The most frequently selected symptom categories to describe sinus infections among patients included mucus ...
Inappropriate sinus tachycardia (IST) is a syndrome of cardiac and extracardiac symptoms characterized by substantially fast sinus heart rate (HR) at rest (>100 bpm) or with minimal activity and ...
Diagnosis. A careful history looking for the subtle symptoms of sinusitis, (as reviewed in the section on Clinical Presentation), must always be the starting point for diagnosing sinusitis. The ...
Blitzer and colleagues. [1] studied 179 patients with acute invasive fungal sinusitis and found the prevalence of diabetes to be 70% (n=126); only 4% (n=8) had no identifiable risk factors. The ...
In a meta-analysis that reviewed 11 studies (including 635 prosthesis), the pooled sensitivity and specificity of FDG-PET for the detection of prosthetic hip or knee joint infection were 82.1% (95 ...
Patients receiving care at public clinics were nearly twice as likely to expect antibiotics for diarrhea (OR, 1.8; 95% CI, 1.2-2.8; P = .009) and sore throat (OR, 2.2; 95% CI, 1.5-3.2; P < .001 ...
Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a common health care problem, yet many aspects of this diagnosis remain poorly understood. Its etiology is often debated and remains a significant area of research ...