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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.
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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: 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 Report: Blood Finds a Way
A 30-year-old woman presented to the hospital and was ultimately discovered to have extensive veno-venous collaterals between anterior, systemic, and chest wall veins connecting directly to their right superior pulmonary veins and left atrium. The Pathways Consult Service at Massachusetts General Hospital investigated.
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Pathways Case Record: A Patient With Arteriovenous Malformations
A 68-year-old man with atrial fibrillation and recurrent melena was admitted with multiple episodes of dark, tarry stool and anemia. He was found to have small bowel arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). The Pathways Consult Service at Mass General investigated the etiology of this patient's gastrointestinal AVMs.
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Pathways Case Record: Profound Weight Loss in a Patient With Polymyositis and Small Bowel Inflammation
A patient presented with severe malnutrition and an unintentional estimated weight loss of 160 pounds over three years. The Pathways Consult Service at Massachusetts General Hospital investigated the patient's concomitant skeletal and smooth muscle inflammation and gut dysmotility.
Pathways Consult Service
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Jay Vyas, MD, PhD
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Principal Investigator, Vyas Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Rebecca Ward, PhD
Medical Writer, Vyas Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital
Pathways Consult Service
Pathways Consult Service at Massachusetts General Hospital is discovering insights into the causes of disease through the close investigation of a single patient.