9 articles in this issue
Leila Kanafi Vahed, Afshin Arianpur, Mohammad Esmaeili
The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of clinical manifestations of various types of rickets in patients could be effective in therapeutic strategies. A total of eleven child patients (7 females and 4 males) were included in the present stud... see more
Ipek S. Edipoglu, Fatma Celik, Tutku Ozdogan, Serdar Comert, B. Haluk Guvenc
Perioperative management of a neonate with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is challenging because of pulmonary hypoplasia, pulmonary hypertension, and respiratory insufficiency. In this report, we present our intra-operative experience in a 4-days o... see more
Ida Sofie Grønningsæter, Aymen Bushra Ahmed, Nils Vetti, Silje Johansen, Øystein Bruserud, Håkon Reikvam
The increasing use of radiological examination, especially magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), will probably increase the risk of unintended discovery of bone marrow abnormalities in patients where a hematologic disease would not be expected. In this paper ... see more
Xuanxuan Chen
Having a hepatitis B surface antibody (HBsAb) titre of more than 10 mIU/mL after hepatitis B vaccination is generally considered to confer immunity to hepatitis B. This case report discusses an unusual case of a false positive hepatitis B core total antib... see more
Xiang Yang, Seidu A. Richard, Jiagang Liu, Siqing Huang
Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is an uncommon complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Solitary association of fatal spinal SAH as a complication of SLE, has not been encountered much in literature although coexisting acute cerebral and spinal S... see more
Akiko Takashima, Naoki Takeshita, Toshihiko Kinoshita
Having a uterine scar places a woman at increased risk of complications, such as Cesarean scar pregnancy (CSP), uterine rupture, placenta previa, and placenta accreta, in subsequent pregnancies. We report a case of uterine rupture at 11 weeks of gestation... see more
Munish Sharma, Eduard Koman, Gary S. Ledley, Sung-Hae Cho
Amyloidosis is a complex group of disorders that can involve many organs and cause their dysfunction. Cardiac involvement indicates worse prognosis and influences treatment strategies. Cardiac amyloidosis is an under-diagnosed entity and high index of cli... see more
Ângela Melo, Rita Dinis, António Portugal, Ana Isabel Sousa, Isabel Cerveira
Conjoined twinning occurs in 1/100 of monozygotic twins, 1/50,000 gestations and 1/250,000 live births. It is the consequence of a division event at the primitive streak stage of the human embryonic development, about 13-14 days after fertilisation, in mo... see more
Tagore Sunkara, Eric Omar Then, Andrea Culliford, Vinaya Gaduputi
Rectal tumors are often encountered as an incidental finding on screening colonoscopy. As per the World Health Organization, they are categorized according to their histologic appearance. These include epithelial tumors, mesenchymal tumors and lymphomas. ... see more