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Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is endemic in South-Scandinavia, Central Europe and Eastern Europe. In 2016 the first patient was reported with TBE virus infection contracted in the Netherlands, in a forested area between Driebergen and Maarn (near Utrecht). At the time, field research did not identify any TBE-positive ticks at the supposed infection site. In the last two years, two patients have been diagnosed with TBE in the Diakonessenhuis Hospital in Utrecht; one patient was bitten by a tick in the Netherlands. PT2399 research buy This time round, tests on ticks from a different area near Utrecht (the forests around Zeist) did identify TBE-positive ticks. TBE infection is often asymptomatic. However, in a small proportion of patients, disease can develop and there is currently no curative therapy available. An effective vaccine is available. At the moment no vaccination recommendation is issued in the Netherlands. TBE should be considered in patients presenting with fever after a recent tick bite. When neurological symptoms appear, referral to a neurologist is necessary.A 19-year-old woman presented with a productive cough, fever and chest pain. Clinical and chest X-ray findings prompted us to do a CT-scan, which revealed a mediastinal mass extending in the left thoracic cavity, suggestive of a teratoma with an obstructive pneumonia. The patient was successfully treated with intravenous antibiotics and surgical removal of the tumour.In children, a malignant lymphoma can present with life-threatening complications arising from progressive tumour growth, warranting swift diagnosis and treatment. Early recognition can be challenging if a child with paediatric lymphoma presents with abdominal and throat symptoms because of the frequency, and frequently benign nature, of these symptoms in the general paediatric population. In these cases, it is essential for the physician to recognize the alarm signals for suspicion of malignant lymphoma, to allow timely diagnosis and treatment. We present two cases (children age 8 and 16 years) demonstrating the symptoms of malignant lymphoma that should raise alarm in children presenting with unilateral tonsil enlargement or intussusception, and illustrating the importance of timely recognition of these alarm signals, to prevent life-threatening complications due to tumour progression. In patients presenting with unilateral tonsil enlargement, malignant lymphoma should be considered if atypical macroscopic tonsil morphology, cervical lymphadenopathy, dysphagia, snoring, fever or weight loss is present. The presence of a lead point as the cause of intussusception should be considered in children aged > 2 years of age, in a child with an ileo-iliac intussusception and in patients with longstanding abdominal symptoms. In patients presenting with simultaneous symptoms and alarm signals for malignant lymphoma, the relationship between the presenting symptoms should be recognized. Interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary consultation with colleagues can help in the search for an overarching diagnosis, and it is crucial that this should happen without delay to prevent acute life-threatening situations.Nausea is a common presenting symptom in medical care with a broad differential diagnosis. In this teaching article we provide practical information on many aspects of nausea including pathophysiology and differential diagnosis, history and physical examination, and diagnostic tests and treatment. This was done by means of answering several questions from the daily practice of general practitioners, specialists in internal medicine and surgeons. In a patient with nausea a provisional diagnosis can be made based on medical history, careful history-taking and age. Diagnostic testing is only performed on clinical suspicion and depends on the provisional diagnosis and presence of alarm symptoms. Tailored medical treatment of nausea is based on the provisional diagnosis and on the mechanism of action of the intended antiemetic agent.We saw a 59-year-old patient who was treated with dabrafenib and trametinib because of metastatic melanoma. She had an asymptomatic, black-blue macula in the excision scar. Histopathology showed tumoral melanosis. This is an histological term for dermal aggregates of melanophages, associated with regression of melanoma.A high-throughput method has been developed for the doping control analysis of 124 drug targets, processing up to 154 horse urine samples in as short as 4.5 hours, from the time the samples arrive at the laboratory to the reporting deadline of 30 minutes before the first race, inclusive of sample receipt and registration, preparation, instrument analysis and data vetting time. Sample preparation involves a brief enzyme hydrolysis step (30 minutes) in order to detect both free and glucuronide-conjugated drug targets. This is followed by extraction using solid-supported liquid extraction (SLE) and analysis by liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry. The entire set up comprised of four sets of Biotage® ExtraheraTM automation systems for conducting SLE, and five to six sets of Orbitrap for instrumental screening by liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry. Suspicious samples flagged were subject to confirmatory analyses using liquid chromatography-triple quadrupole mass spectrometry. The method covers a total of 124 drug targets from a spectrum of 41 drug classes covering acidic, basic and neutral drugs. Over 85 % of the targets had limits of detection at or below 5 ng/mL in horse urine, with the lowest at 0.02 ng/mL. The method was validated for qualitative identification purpose, including specificity, sensitivity, extraction recovery and precision. Method applicability was demonstrated by the successful detection of different drugs, namely, (i) butorphanol; (ii) dexamethasone; (iii) diclofenac; (iv) flunixin; and (v) phenylbutazone in post-race or out-of-competition urine samples collected from racehorses. This method was developed for pre-race urine testing in Hong Kong; however, it is also suitable for testing post-race or out-of-competition urine samples, especially when a fast total analysis time is desired. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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