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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JPSIM</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine</journal-title>
        <abbrev-title>J Pak Soc Intern Med</abbrev-title>
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      <issn publication-format="print">2709-8729</issn>
      <issn publication-format="electronic">2710-0804</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.70302/jpsim.v5i4.2478</article-id>
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          <subject>Case Report</subject>
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        <article-title>A Rare Presentation of Brain Abscesses in an 18-Year-Old Male with Undiagnosed Tetralogy of Fallot</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Shaikh</surname>
            <given-names>Shafaq Nazia</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>shafaq.shaikh@gmail.com</email>
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          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">*</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Jamal</surname>
            <given-names>Iffat</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Bhatti</surname>
            <given-names>Fareeha</given-names>
          </name>
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        <institution>Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro.</institution>
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        <corresp id="cor1">*Correspondence: Shafaq Nazia Shaikh (shafaq.shaikh@gmail.com)</corresp>
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      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic" iso-8601-date="2024-12-09">
        <day>09</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>5</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>750</fpage>
      <lpage>752</lpage>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2024-09-09">
          <day>09</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2024-11-15">
          <day>15</day>
          <month>11</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2024 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
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          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p>
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      <abstract>
        <p>An 18-year-old male presented with a 1-day history of seizures, fever, and altered level of consciousness. The patient had no prior history of seizures but had experienced breathlessness on exertion and spells of cyanosis since childhood. On examination, the patient had a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 8/15, a temperature of 102°F, and was actively having tonic-clonic seizures. Signs of meningeal irritation were absent. Neuroimaging revealed multiple brain abscesses, and an echocardiogram confirmed an underlying diagnosis of Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF). This case highlights the uncommon but significant complication of brain abscesses in patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Brain abscess</kwd>
        <kwd>Tetralogy of Fallot</kwd>
        <kwd>Seizures</kwd>
        <kwd>Cyanosis</kwd>
        <kwd>Congenital heart disease</kwd>
        <kwd>Pediatric</kwd>
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