Common diseases

Candidal granuloma is a rare disease and treatment is still difficult in clinical practice. This disease is common in immunocompromised patients. Herein, we report a case of a 63-year-old man who presented with Candidal granuloma caused by Candida parapsilosis. The diagnosis was confirmed according to fungal culture. The patient was successfully treated with oral fluconazole and terbinafine.

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The 2 most common types of amyloidosis are light chain (AL) that is associated with plasma cell dyscrasias and reactive (AA) that is associated with chronic inflammatory conditions. This case demonstrates the importance of generating a broad differential and the pivotal role of physical examination and endoscopic findings in diagnosing uncommon diseases.

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Hypertension is one of the most common cardiovascular diseases, often referred to as the silent killer. The prevalence of hypertension is increasing globally. This study investigates certain clinical and subclinical characteristics, cardiovascular risk factors in hypertensive patients, and evaluates the correlation between these risk factors and target organ damage with systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

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Osteopenia is a common bone disorder that is the most prevalent underlying cause of fractures. One of the causes of secondary osteopenia is spondyloarthritis. The rate of bone loss in patients with spondyloarthritis is relatively high in the early stages of the disease. Objectives: This study is evaluated the prevalence and risk factors of low bone mineral density by Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) in spondyloarthritis.

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Allergic rhinitis (AR) is one of the most common inflammatory diseases, leading to health and economic burdens. Genetic and environmental factors may influence the development of AR in early life.

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common genetic cardiovascular disease and a major cause of sudden death. It is also involved in increasing morbidity and mortality of various cardiovascular diseases. Genetic factors have been found to be important in determining the phenotypic manifestation of cardiac hypertrophy. However, only 50–60% of HCM patients have been identified as having pathogenic variants in known genes, suggesting that more studies are needed to find more disease genes.

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Dental caries is a multifactorial and dynamic disease caused by damage to dental hard tissues. It is known as the most common disease of oral health conditions in school-aged children. Caries can affect children’s quality of life, such as studying, recreational activities, and psychosocial well-being. In recent years, some studies done in other provinces of Vietnam reported that the rate of dental caries in primary and permanent dentition was still high.

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Shingles is a common skin infection, caused by the latent Varicella zoster virus in the paraspinal cranial nerve ganglia, when there are favorable factors such as immunosuppression makes the virus active again. The disease greatly affects the patient's quality of life. Objectives: Survey to determine clinical manifestations, correlative factors and evaluate the results of topical treatment of herpes zoster with He-Ne laser combination at Can Tho DermatoVenereology Hospital in 2021.

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Febrile convulsions are a fairly common emergency in children, accounting for up to 2/3 of children with symptomatic convulsions in diseases with identified causes. Febrile seizures are a medical emergency in pediatrics. Seizure recurrence can affect the child in many ways, including the risk of injury, respiratory failure during a seizure, or increased risk of epilepsy.

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Thyroid carcinomas are the most common endocrine malignancies. The cervical lymph node metastasis rate in patients with PTC ranges from 30-80% and there is a significant difference in survival at 14 years for those with and without lymph node metastases. Therefore, the early detection of metastatic cervical lymph nodes plays an essential role in deciding upon the optimal surgical treatment plan for the majority of patients, which will allow careful postoperative screening, adjuvant therapies, and minimizes the chance of disease recurrence, so we conducted this study.

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Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is an acute infectious disease caused by an intestinal virus with typical clinical manifestations: bullous rash on the hands, feet, buttocks, or mouth ulcers. The disease can spread very quickly from one child to another through two fecaloral and respiratory routes. Hand, foot, and mouth disease is one of the most common acute infectious diseases in Vietnam.

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Atrophic scars are the result of natural healing leading to the formation of replacement fibrous tissue. The atrophic scar is a common undesirable complication of acne, chickenpox, herpes, trauma, etc. Although the disease does not cause dangerous complications, due to the location of the lesions on the face, it causes great aesthetic and psychological obstacles, and the patient is less confident in communication, profoundly affecting the patient's quality of life and labor productivity.

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Currently, many patients with dermatophytosis are treated with a variety of antifungal drugs but they are ineffective and relapses are common. Many antifungal drugs have been used but fails to treat the disease, which can globally become an issue in medical practice. The combination of antifungal drugs for the treatment of dermatophytosis, including oral itraconazole and topical terbinafine, has been shown to be more effective than monotherapy.

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Paracetamol is one of the most commonly used active ingredients, even without a doctor's prescription for most people. It has effects on relieving pain and treating fever, especially with an analgesic effect for the elderly who have to suffer from degenerative joint disease. However, the half-life of paracetamol is relatively short, from 1 to 3 hours, so patients need to use it many times a day.

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Ostomy has become a common therapy for treating gastrointestinal diseases such as colorectal cancer. Patients with ostomy experience many problems including appearance change, uncontrolled discharge and odour, sexual dysfunction, decreased social functioning, and difficulties taking care of themselves. Because of these problems, many patients with ostomies feel anxious, unconfident and afraid to participate in social activities.

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Pneumonia is a very common disease in children, especially children under 5 years old, due to their immature immune system not being able to fight against environmental pathogens. Malnutrition affects the severity and outcome of pneumonia treatment.

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Knee osteoarthritis is a common disease in the group of bone and joint diseases. The incidence of the disease increases with age, commonly occurs in elderly patients or can also occur in young people. Diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis is mainly based on clinical symptoms combined with radiographs.

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Cardiac arrhythmia is a common cardiovascular emergency with diverse clinical and paraclinical characteristics. Arrhythmias can be harmless, asymptomatic, or have mild symptoms. However, some arrhythmias can cause discomfort with aggressive clinical and paraclinical manifestations, sometimes threatening the patient's life. This disease has very different clinical and paraclinical symptoms between types of arrhythmia.

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Synovial sarcoma is the fourth most common type of soft-tissue sarcoma, accounting for 2.5%-10.5% of all primary soft-tissue neoplasms worldwide. This disease most often affects the extremities, 80%-95% of cases, of adolescents and young adults (15-40 years of age).

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To study on types, favorable factors, clinical characteristics and treatment result of pharyngitis to early diagnose, properly treat and prevent complications of pharyngitis. Patients and method: 171 patients with pharyngitis were studied by prospective and descriptive study with clinical interventions.

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