Báo cáo y học: " Malignant catatonia due to anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis in a 17-year-old girl: case report" ppt

... catatonic features occur in anti- NMDA-Receptor encephalitis, the y may aggravat e the cata- tonic s ymptoms. Therapeutic approaches to catatonia are mainly symp- toma tic. It is recommended to ... with catatonia syndrome without extrapyramidal signs. She was given olanzapine (40 mg/day), loxapine (50 mg/day) and clonazepam (3.5 mg/day). She soon showed malignant catatonia wi...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... infancy and are rarely seen in adults. Case presentation: We report the case of a 36-year-old Greek woman experiencing chronic constipation due to a benign presacral teratoma. Imaging examinations ... Vassilios N Papadopoulos 1 , Stylianos Apostolidis 2 , Despoina Televantou 3 , Prodromos Hytiroglou 3 Abstract Introduction: Teratomas of the sacrococcygeal area are usually diagno...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... and peritoneal implantations. Histopathology revealed an inflammatory mass of tuberculous origin in the first case. In the second, cell culture and polymerase chain reaction tests revealed Mycobacterium ... loss during the past few months. A physical examination revealed mild tenderness and a palpable mass in the right ileac fossa. Laboratory test findings showed mild anemia (hemat...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23

... infarction may occur both in a parathyroid adenoma and in hyperplastic parathyroid glands, whereas extracapsular hemorrhage due to hyperplasia, adenoma, or cancer is an uncommon but threatening ... generally spontaneous thyroid or parathyroid extraglandular bleeding. A parathyroid intra- and extracapsular hemorrhage is a serious, poten- tially fatal, complication of parathyroid...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... painless thyroiditis. It was difficult to obtain a definite diagnosis because of the lack of neck pain and the resemblance of the mental s ymptoms to those seen in anxiety disorder and hyperthyroidism. In ... recovery from hyperthyroidism [12] and other factors may have been involved in the mental dis- orders associated with hyperthyroidism. One possible explanation is that antith...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:21

... frequently asympto- matic character of gastrointestinal melanoma explains why it largely eludes detection. Symptoms include mainly gastrointestinal bleeding, abdominal pain, anor- exia, nausea and ... metastatic lymphadeno- pathy. Other intraabdominal organs were normal. Com- puted tomography (CT) of her tho rax showed enlarged right supraclavicular, upper mediastinal, paratracheal, subcarina...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... Krugman ME: Parotid salivary fistula following rhytidectomy. Ann Plast Surg 1990, 24:61-62. 6. Haller JR: Trauma of salivary glands. Cummings Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery New York: ... 13-year-old Indo-Caucasian girl presented to us with a two-year history of clear watery discharge from a wound just above and behind the angle of her right jaw. A diagnosis of salivary (paroti...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:21

... suppurative parotitis, as in this case. The diagnosis is made by combining information from the patient’ s history with findings from clinical examination, which in our case revealed a small opening over ... the skin with discharge of clear serous fluid that increases during ingestion of food and mastication. In doubtful cases fluid can be sent for laboratory analysis; raised saliv...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:20

... Ethical reasons also dissuaded us from performing a coronary angiograph. His family history for cardiovascular events was nega- tive. A brain MRI revealed mild cortical atrophy with bilat eral lacuna ... cortical atrophy with bilateral lacunar ischemic lesions and gliosis in the cerebral white matter, mainly in the semi-oval center and the corona radiata. Figure 2 Abdominal computed t...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... University of Calgary, AB, Canada Email: Saad Alotaibi* - saalotai@hotmail.com; James Harder - james.harder@calgaryhealthregion.ca; Sheldon Spier - Sheldon.Spier@CalgaryHealthRegion.ca * Corresponding ... capacity, forced expiratory volume at 1 minute, forced expiratory volume 25% to 75%, and total lung capacity. There was evidence of hyperinflation and airway trapping from the increase...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21