Posts by Pathways Case Records Team,
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Pathways Case Record: Severe Encephalitis, Mitochondrial Dysfunction in a 28-Year-Old Patient
The Pathways Consult Service at Massachusetts General Hospital took on the case of a patient with severe encephalitis. They sought to find whether the development of lactic acidosis on linezolid therapy could provide insight into the development of his condition.
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Pathways Case Record: An Epigenetic Memory of Infection in the Lung
The Pathways Consult Service at Massachusetts General Hospital investigated the case of a 75-year-old woman who was admitted for dyspnea and cachexia stemming from severe and progressive allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and bronchiectasis.
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Pathways Case Record: Nocturnal Hypothermia and HIV in a 53-Year-Old Woman
The Pathways Consult Service at Massachusetts General Hospital investigates the case of a 53-year-old female patient with HIV who presented with cyclical hypothermic episodes. They hypothesized that an autoimmune process related to immune reconstitution on HIV treatment led to the dysfunction of temperature regulation.
Biography
The Pathways Case Records team represents the administrative core of the Pathways Consult Service at Massachusetts General Hospital. The Pathways service aims to bringing together individual patient questions with the tools of biomedical research, to enhance medical training, advance science and help patients and families seeking explanations.
Pathways Case Record Team members include:
Katrina Armstrong, MD Mark Fishman, MD Mike Dougan, MD, PhD Marc Wein, MD, PhD Alex Soltoff