The clinical presentation acute abdomen is caused by a variety of conditions usually presenting with severe abdominal pain.
The diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy (EP) is often confirmed at presentation (acute), but often requires serial β-hCG levels to confirm the diagnosis (chronic).
Due to the unique clinical presentation, acute clinical course without recurrences, HLA association, and good visual prognosis, we believe they represent a new clinical entity called panretinal acute multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy or PAMPPE.
The following information was retrieved from all the 58 cases: age, gender, laterality, type of presentation (acute, chronic, acute on chronic), any significant medical or surgical history, and any associated systemic disease.
Seven patients were evaluated within 1 month of EM presentation (acute) and nine different patients at 3 months post EM presentation (convalescent).
Acute Lung Injury (ALI) and its most severe clinical presentation, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), occur after a variety of insults, including sepsis, trauma, or aspiration of gastric contents.
Compared with responses in healthy endemic zone controls, there were significantly increased IFN-γ responses at the time of clinical presentation (acute phase) and at convalescence 14 28 days later.
Acute lung injury (ALI) and its most severe presentation, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), are clinical disorders characterized by hypoxemic respiratory failure associated with acute pulmonary inflammation secondary to several different etiologies and exhibit high mortality rates [ 1].
The CUP subgroup included those patients with any of these features at presentation: acute organ dysfunction, septic shock, hypotension, extensive infections (pneumonia, cellulitis >5 cm, typhlitis, meningitis and pyelonephritis) or any other acute comorbidity indicating hospital admission by itself.
