Cystic fibrosis is most often diagnosed in the first years of life due to pancreatic insufficiency and respiratory damage with chronic bronchial suppuration. However, moderate or monosymptomatic forms may only appear in adulthood. As for Graves' disease, it is an autoimmune patho...
Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is a rare autoimmunobullous disease which is seen more in the elderly. There are many factors that have been associated with BP including medications, vaccines, and different diseases including diabetes mellitus. Diabetes mellitus is known to enhance the p...
Aim: To review the clinical presentation and demonstrate imaging findings in complicated Hepatobiliary Ascariasis (HBA) and its management. Presentation: A 45 years old male diabetic patient presented with the symptoms of fever, hiccoughs, abdominal bloating, nausea, and bilious...
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) CIDP is a rare and heterogenous autoimmune disorder of the peripheral nervous system that attacks myelin sheath around the peripheral nerves. It is characterized by muscle weakness and sensory deficits, numbness tha...
Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease, due to the presence of antibodies against the proteins in the post-synaptic muscle membrane, which leads to localized or generalized muscle weakness. Presentation of myasthenia gravis could vary from patient to patient, while ocular mus...
Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is a rare autoimmune subepidermal blistering disorder and is defined by the existence of circulating G immunoglobulins (IgG) against basement membrane antigens BP180 and BP230, the immunobullous skin disorder characteristically presents with intense bullae...
Background: Rare diseases, with a prevalence of 4% globally, often manifest with diverse and challenging clinical presentations. Anesthetic management for these conditions demands a nuanced understanding of pathophysiology, potential complications, and interactions with anestheti...
Neuroendocrine carcinoma of the bladder is a very rare tumor, accounting for no more than 1% of all bladder tumors. Its main characteristic is its poor prognosis, which is explained by its high metastatic potential. Classical metastatic sites are lymph nodes, liver and lung, but...
Central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) is caused by the formation of a thrombus in the central retinal vein, and constitutes an extreme diagnostic and therapeutic emergency due to its visual prognosis. The most frequent cause of CRVO is related to cardiovascular risk factors, alth...
Introduction: Ureteric calculus in pediatric age group is rare. Most common cause of pediatric hydronephrosis is PUJ (pelvi-ureteric junction) obstruction, but hydronephrosis due to VUJ (vesico-ureteric junction) obstruction by ureteric calculus is rare in this population. Recent...
Madhuri Akasapu, Sri Satya Manogna Naidu Vanarasi, Pavan Kumar Yanamadala, Rupa Lavanya Gogulamanda, Thanmayi Sai Lakshmi Thota, Nandini Palivela & Bhagya Aruna Chikkala·Asian Journal of Case Reports in Medicine and Health·2023
Background: HELLP Syndrome is one of the significant difficulties of pregnancy and the acronym represents H=Hemolysis, EL=Elevated Liver Enzymes, LP=Low Platelets. It is a significant and hazardous type of toxemia, which is a condition where a pregnant lady has hypertension that...
Background: Lipomeningocele is a congenital abnormality of the neural tube. It affects approximately one in every 50,000 infants. This is one of the most uncommon varieties of Spina bifida, which happens when a neural tube does not shut completely and sticks out of the Spinal col...
In the modern world, coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of mortality, accounting for nearly 1 in 5 fatalities. The importance of this disease's morbidity, mortality, and socioeconomic impact makes quick accurate diagnosis and cost-effective care of CAD crucial. Th...
Guillain–Barre syndrome (GBS) is a rapid-onset weakness caused by the immune syste damaging the peripheral nervous system. Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS) is a variant of GBS characterized by weakness of the eye muscles, abnormalities in coordination, and absent reflexes. The sympto...
Marfan syndrome is an inherited autosomal dominant multisystem connective tissue disorder that is the most common form of syndromic heritable thoracic aortic aneurysm disease which commonly involves skeletal, cardiovascular, and ocular systems with less frequent involvement of th...