Rapidly-Progressing Pyomyositis After Chest Contusion in a Patient With Well-Controlled Diabetes Mellitus
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Pyomyositis is an uncommon acute bacterial infection of the skeletal muscle. It is sometimes referred to as "tropical pyomyositis" because it has been primarily reported as an endemic disease in tropical regions. In temperate climates, it is mainly diagnosed in immunocompromised persons, such as those with human immunodeficiency virus infection, malignancy, diabetes, and various other medical conditions. Early diagnosis and appropriate antimicrobial therapy for pyomyositis are important, however, it is often missed in its early stage. Herein, we report the case of a patient with obesity and well-controlled diabetes in whom rapid onset pyomyositis developed in only 2 days after chest contusion and induced bacteremia in its early stage. He was successfully treated by antimicrobials without any drainage or surgical intervention. Even in patients with well-controlled diabetes or in healthy persons, pyomyositis should be considered for patients who present with fever and muscle swelling and pain, especially when they have obesity and a history of blunt trauma. It should also be noted that pyomyositis, mimicking muscle contusion or hematoma can appear very early after blunt muscle trauma. Prompt diagnosis and antimicrobial treatment for pyomyositis can lead to a favorable outcome, without surgical drainage.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".