Toxic epidermal necrolysis associated with severe cytomegalovirus infection in a patient on regular hemodialysis.

Primary illness with cytomegalovirus leads to latent infection with possible reactivations especially in the immunocompromised patients. Toxic epidermal necrolysis is an immune mediated cytotoxic reaction.A fifty years old female diabetic hypertensive patient with end stage renal disease was admitted with fever of unknown origin, constitutional symptoms, vague upper gastrointestinal symptoms and skin rash.

A patient with metastatic colon cancer to the liver presenting with cardiac arrest status post receiving combination irinotecan-panitumumab: a case report.

Panitumumab is a recombinant human Immunoglobulin G antibody. Irinotecan is an S-phase cell cycle specific plant alkaloid. Life threatening adverse events occur with Panitumumab-chemotherapy combination.

Oculomotor nerve palsy associated with bortezomib in a patient with multiple myeloma: a case report.

Introduction: Bortezomib is a proteasome inhibitor used in the treatment of multiple myeloma. A newly recognized oculomotor nerve palsy related to bortezomib is described.

Case Presentation: A 54-year-old Caucasian woman with immunoglobulin G kappa multiple myeloma on single-agent bortezomib given by intravenous push once weekly developed isolated unilateral partially reversible left sided oculomotor nerve palsy during the first cycle of treatment.