Hiccups and Psychosis: Two atypical presentations of COVID -19

AbstractThe WHO defines a possible case of COVID-19 as a person experiencing fever, cough, shortness of breath, and neurological signs including anosmia, ageusia, or dysgeusia. However, experiences from hospitals all over the world have shown that presentations vary widely. Some atypical presentations include cardiac, gastrointestinal, neurological, and cutaneous and while some are driven by the inflammatory response, others are a consequence of the hypercoagulable state. In our emergency department in a private hospital in Mexico City, we received two patients with very different symptoms on the same shift. Two previously healthy men in their 40s presented to the ER with very atypical manifestations of COVID-19. Neither of them complained of fever, cough, or shortness of breath. The first referred a 3-day history of hiccups that had not resolved with metoclopramide. The second presented with an acute episode of altered mental status. While the first case revealed lung involvement of the disease, the second case had a clean chest CT scan. These cases are relevant as manifestations of COVID-19 vary widely, especially in previously healthy young adults.

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Hiccups and Psychosis: Two atypical presentations of COVID -19

10.21203/rs.3.rs-48043/v2 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Teresa Alvarez-Cisneros ◽

Aldo Lara-Reyes ◽

Stephanie Sansón-Tinoco

Keyword(s):

Private Hospital ◽

Altered Mental Status ◽

Chest Ct ◽

Shortness Of Breath ◽

Neurological Signs ◽

First Case ◽

Atypical Manifestations ◽

History Of ◽

Atypical Presentations ◽

Chest Ct Scan

Abstract The WHO defines a possible case of COVID-19 as a person experiencing fever, cough, shortness of breath and neurological signs including anosmia, ageusia or dysgeusia. However, experiences from hospitals all over the world have shown that presentations vary widely. Some atypical presentations include cardiac, gastrointestinal, neurological and cutaneous and while some are driven by the inflammatory response, other are a consequence of the hypercoagulable state. In our emergency department in a private hospital in Mexico City, we received two patients with very different symptoms on the same shift. Two previously healthy men in their 40s presented to the ER with very atypical manifestations of COVID-19. Neither of them complained of fever, cough or shortness of breath. The first referred a 3-day history of hiccups that had not resolved with metoclopramide. The second presented with an acute episode of altered mental status. While the first case revealed lung involvement of the disease, the second case had a clean chest CT scan. These cases are relevant as manifestations of COVID-19 vary widely, especially in previously healthy young adults.

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A COVID-19 Patient Presenting with Pneumothorax

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases ◽

10.1155/2021/6652819 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-3

Author(s):

Seyyedeh Narjes Abootalebi ◽

Eslam Shorafa ◽

Alireza Abbaspour ◽

Seyed Sina Dehghani ◽

Mehdi Forooghi

Keyword(s):

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ◽

Chest Pain ◽

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽

Distress Syndrome ◽

Cardiac Injury ◽

Shortness Of Breath ◽

Bilateral Pneumothorax ◽

The World ◽

Novel Virus ◽

Atypical Presentations

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel virus that has affected millions of individuals across the world. It was officially declared as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Although most patients with COVID-19 manifest as viral pneumonia characterized by symptoms such as fever, dyspnea, and cough, atypical presentations such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and acute kidney or cardiac injury have been reported amongst COVID-19 patients. Bilateral and peripheral ground-glass and opacities are the hallmarks of COVID-19 infection on imaging exams. Herein, we aim to describe a COVID-19 patient who presented with shortness of breath, neck pain, chest pain, and bilateral pneumothorax in his imaging exam.

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A 54-Year-Old Female With Fever and Ataxia

Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine ◽

10.22374/cjgim.v10i4.79 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Marie-Lie Cadieux-Simard MD ◽

Laurence Green MD

Keyword(s):

Emergency Department ◽

Urinary Incontinence ◽

Family Member ◽

Family Members ◽

Gait Disturbance ◽

Medical Attention ◽

Shortness Of Breath ◽

Her Family ◽

Level Of Consciousness ◽

New Onset

We present the case of a 54-year-old female known for hypertension, alcoholism and occasional cocaine intake. She was brought to the emergency department because of new onset confusion and decreased level of consciousness. The history was taken from a family member. The patient had increased shortness of breath with a cough that started 48 hours prior to her visit. The night prior to presentation, she was intoxicated with cocaine and alcohol and was then found to have slurred speech, gait disturbance and urinary incontinence. The next morning, she was found obtunded, which prompted her family members to seek medical attention.

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Indonesian Literature’s Position in World Literature

TEKNOSASTIK ◽

10.33365/ts.v14i2.55 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Dina Amelia

Keyword(s):

World Literature ◽

The Other ◽

National Literature ◽

Western World ◽

The World ◽

The One ◽

The Voice

There are two most inevitable issues on national literature, in this case Indonesian literature. First is the translation and the second is the standard of world literature. Can one speak for the other as a representative? Why is this representation matter? Does translation embody the voice of the represented? Without translation Indonesian literature cannot gain its recognition in world literature, yet, translation conveys the voice of other. In the case of production, publication, or distribution of Indonesian Literature to the world, translation works can be very beneficial. The position of Indonesian literature is as a part of world literature. The concept that the Western world should be the one who represent the subaltern can be overcome as long as the subaltern performs as the active speaker. If the subaltern remains silent then it means it allows the “representation” by the Western.

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Experiment role in the world music (based on the «The Road» album of the Ukrainian «Dakha Brakha» band)

Scientific collections of the Lviv National Music Academy named after M V Lysenko ◽

10.33398/2310-0583.2018.4243.215.227 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 215-227

Author(s):

Iia Fedorova

Keyword(s):

Folk Music ◽

World Music ◽

The Other ◽

Modern Music ◽

Musical Practice ◽

The Road ◽

Music Practice ◽

The World ◽

Binary Oppositions ◽

Musical Practices

The main objective of this study is the substantiation of experiment as one of the key features of the world music in Ukraine. Based on the creative works of the brightest world music representatives in Ukraine, «Dakha Brakha» band, the experiment is regarded as a kind of creative setting. Methodology and scientific approaches. The methodology was based on the music practice theory by T. Cherednychenko. The author distinguishes four binary oppositions, which can describe the musical practice. According to one of these oppositions («observance of the canon or violation of the canon»), the musical practices, to which the Ukrainian musicology usually classifies the world music («folk music» and «minstrel music»), are compared with the creative work of «Dakha Brakha» band. Study findings. A lack of the setting to experiment in the musical practices of the «folk music» and «minstrel music» separates the world music musical practice from them. Therefore, the world music is a separate type of musical practice in which the experiment is crucial. The study analyzed several scientific articles of Ukrainian musicologists on the world music; examined the history of the Ukrainian «Dakha Brakha» band; presented a list of the folk songs used in the fifth album «The Road» by «Dakha Brakha» band; and showed the degree of the source transformation by musicians based on the example of the «Monk» song. The study findings can be used to form a comprehensive understanding of the world music musical practice. The further studies may be related to clarification of the other parameters of the world music musical practice, and to determination of the experiment role in creative works of the other world music representatives, both Ukrainian and foreign. The practical study value is the ability to use its key provisions in the course of modern music in higher artistic schools of Ukraine. Originality / value. So far, the Ukrainian musicology did not consider the experiment role as the key one in the world music.

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Does Literature Matter Today? Thoughts of the Outside

CounterText ◽

10.3366/count.2018.0118 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 98-113

Author(s):

Shaobo Xie

Keyword(s):

Aesthetic Education ◽

The Other ◽

Human Values ◽

Literary Texts ◽

Lost Cause ◽

Western Tradition ◽

The World

The paper celebrates the publication of Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller's Thinking Literature across Continents as a significant event in the age of neoliberalism. It argues that, in spite of the different premises and the resulting interpretative procedures respectively championed by the two co-authors, both of them anchor their readings of literary texts in a concept of literature that is diametrically opposed to neoliberal rationality, and both impassionedly safeguard human values and experiences that resist the technologisation and marketisation of the humanities and aesthetic education. While Ghosh's readings of literature offer lightning flashes of thought from the outside of the Western tradition, signalling a new culture of reading as well as a new manner of appreciation of the other, Miller dedicatedly speaks and thinks against the hegemony of neoliberal reason, opening our eyes to the kind of change our teaching or reading of literature can trigger in the world, and the role aesthetic education should and can play at a time when the humanities are considered ‘a lost cause’.

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Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Individuation

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474418874.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Laura Hengehold

Keyword(s):

Lived Experience ◽

20Th Century ◽

Sexual Difference ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

The Other ◽

Simone De Beauvoir ◽

Second Sex ◽

Other Hand ◽

The World

Most studies of Simone de Beauvoir situate her with respect to Hegel and the tradition of 20th-century phenomenology begun by Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. This book analyzes The Second Sex in light of the concepts of becoming, problematization, and the Other found in Gilles Deleuze. Reading Beauvoir through a Deleuzian lens allows more emphasis to be placed on Beauvoir's early interest in Bergson and Leibniz, and on the individuation of consciousness, a puzzle of continuing interest to both phenomenologists and Deleuzians. By engaging with the philosophical issues in her novels and student diaries, this book rethinks Beauvoir’s focus on recognition in The Second Sex in terms of women’s struggle to individuate themselves despite sexist forms of representation. It shows how specific forms of women’s “lived experience” can be understood as the result of habits conforming to and resisting this sexist “sense.” Later feminists put forward important criticisms regarding Beauvoir’s claims not to be a philosopher, as well as the value of sexual difference and the supposedly Eurocentric universalism of her thought. Deleuzians, on the other hand, might well object to her ideas about recognition. This book attempts to address those criticisms, while challenging the historicist assumptions behind many efforts to establish Beauvoir’s significance as a philosopher and feminist thinker. As a result, readers can establish a productive relationship between Beauvoir’s “problems” and those of women around the world who read her work under very different circumstances.

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Modernism, Empiricism, and Rationalism

Irish University Review ◽

10.3366/iur.2016.0199 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 38-47

Author(s):

Geoffrey Squires

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

The Other ◽

Modern Poetry ◽

Philosophical Perspective ◽

Irish Poetry ◽

Dimensional Spectrum ◽

Culture History ◽

The World ◽

The Impact ◽

Rule Out

Modernism is usually defined historically as the composite movement at the beginning of the twentieth century which led to a radical break with what had gone before in literature and the other arts. Given the problems of the continuing use of the concept to cover subsequent writing, this essay proposes an alternative, philosophical perspective which explores the impact of rationalism (what we bring to the world) on the prevailing empiricism (what we take from the world) of modern poetry, which leads to a concern with consciousness rather than experience. This in turn involves a re-conceptualisation of the lyric or narrative I, of language itself as a phenomenon, and of other poetic themes such as nature, culture, history, and art. Against the background of the dominant empiricism of modern Irish poetry as presented in Crotty's anthology, the essay explores these ideas in terms of a small number of poets who may be considered modernist in various ways. This does not rule out modernist elements in some other poets and the initial distinction between a poetics of experience and one of consciousness is better seen as a multi-dimensional spectrum that requires further, more detailed analysis than is possible here.

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The World after the End of the World

Oxford Literary Review ◽

10.3366/olr.2017.0225 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 265-276 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kas Saghafi

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

The Absolute ◽

End Of The World

In several late texts, Derrida meditated on Paul Celan's poem ‘Grosse, Glühende Wölbung’, in which the departure of the world is announced. Delving into the ‘origin’ and ‘history’ of the ‘conception’ of the world, this paper suggests that, for Derrida, the end of the world is determined by and from death—the death of the other. The death of the other marks, each and every time, the absolute end of the world.

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