Emerging new coronavirus infection in Wuhan, China: situation in early 2020

EMERGING NEW CORONAVIRUS INFECTION IN WUHAN, CHINA: SITUATION IN EARLY 2020

Hsia W¹*

                                                                                    

1.Wuhan Health Care Center, Wuhan, China

Correspondence

Dr. Hsia Wang

Wuhan Health Care Center, Wuhan, China

 E-mail: hsiawang@yahoo.com

Hsia W. Emerging new coronavirus infection in Wuhan, China: situation in early 2020. Case Study Case Rep.  2020; 10: 8 - 9.

ABSTRACT

Emerging infectious disease sporadically occurs around the world. Each new disease becomes the important consideration in public health. There are many new recent emerging infectious diseases. The Wuhan new coronavirus infection is a new emerging infection that was recently appeared in Wuhan, China. This short letter described the situation Wuhan new coronavirus infection in early 2020. The short clinical summary is also provided.

Key words:  Emerging, coronavirus, pneumonia

Spontaneous hemarthrosis of the knee associated with clopidogrel treatment.

Virek V, Nyuyen H. Spontaneous hemarthrosis of the knee associated with clopidogrel treatment. Case Study Case Rep. 2020; 10(1): 4 - 7.

ABSTRACT

The authors report a case of a 72-year-old-woman who developed spontaneous hemarthrosis of her left knee following clopidogrel treatment.  She has just got diagnosis of ischemic stroke and recived clopidogrel treatment for 3 months. The spontaneous hemarthrosis following clopidogrel therapy is rare. The case was managed by prompt articular aspiration after discontinuing clopidogrel therapy. In conclusion, spontaneous hemarthrosis is a possible complication following clopidogrel therapy and this condition should be recognized by practitioner since clopidogrel is widely used.

Keywords: hemathrosis, spontaneous, clopidogrel

Editorial: Reasons for article retraction.

Joob B. Editorial: Reasons for article retraction. Case Study Case Rep. 2020; 10(1): 1 - 3.

ABSTRACT

Unethical practice in academic publicaiton is a common unwnanted problem. Retraction is a standard way for management of problematic published article. Reasons for article retraction is an interesting issue in academic publicaiton. It is necessary to have clear information in retraction note. The details in retraction might be a good case study. This might be useful as lesson learnt to the reader. Honesty is based on ethical background and it is difficult to use a simple system for management in a short period. Any reporting guidelines might be useful and a user understands how to effectively and properly use it. Implementation of guidelines might be useless if the user is not qualified and ethical.

Keywords: misconduct, ethical, retraction

Tamoxifen induced maculopapular eruption: a case report

Tiemsiriwatt W, Chandriga S. Tamoxifen induced maculopapular eruption: a case report. Case Study Case Rep. 2019; 9(4): 61 - 63.

ABSTRACT

Breast cancer is an important common malignant disease. The chemotherapy is usually indicated for the patient with breast cancer. Tamoxifen is a common chemotherapeutic agent for management of patient with breast cancer. The dermatological adverse effect of tamoxifen is possible but little mentioned in the literature. In the present report, the authors report a case with tamoxifen induced maculopapular rash.

Keywords: Tamoxifen, breast cancer, maculopapular rash

Hyponatremia induced Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: a case report

Makumbaba R, Makumba Y. E. Hyponatremia induced Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: a case report. Case Study Case Rep. 2019; 9(4): 57 - 60.

ABSTRACT

Low blood sodium is an important laboratory finding in clinical practice. This condition is known as hyponatremia. The hyponatremia is can cause several clinical problems especially for problems on neurological system such as seizure. hyponatremia related Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a rare cardiac complication of hyponatremia. In the present report, the authors present a case of hyponatremia related Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.

Hyperuricemia, positive rheumatoid factor and positive ANA: a rare combination in one patient

Nguyen H. E. Hyperuricemia, positive rheumatoid factor and positive ANA: a rare combination in one patient. Case Study Case Rep. 2019; 9(4): 54 - 56.

ABSTRACT

Joint pain is a common clinical problem seen in general practice. There are several conditions that is related to joint pain. In clinical practice, some laboratory investigations are used for diagnosis and managment of the patient with joint pain. The examples of those laboratory investigations are serum uric acid, rheumatoid factor and ANA. Here, the author presents a patient with a rare combination of Hyperuricemia, positive rheumatoid factor and positive ANA.

Keywords: Hyperuricemia, positive, rheumatoid factor, ANA

Editorial: screening for duplicated text in submited manuscript – false positive and editorial awareness

Joob B, Noda M. Editorial: screening for duplicated text in submited manuscript – false positive and editorial awareness. Case Study Case Rep. 2019; 9(4): 50 - 53.

ABSTRACT

Unethical practice in academic publicaiton is not an uncommon problem. A commmon problem is the duplication of already published materials. The duplicated text might appear in any submitted article. It is the role of the editorial team to screen for any possible duplicated text in submitted article for publicaiton. The use of computational screening tool is widely used in the presnt day. An important concern is a possibility of false positive due to computational screening for duplicated text. Here, the authors demonstrate an example of false positive case and discuss on this specific issue.

Keywords: duplication, plagiarism, screening, software, awareness