Unlabelled: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common entrapment neuropathy. It presents with numbness, paresthesias, and pain. Multiple risk factors are associated with CTS, such as pregnancy, oral contraceptive use, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and diabetes mellitus (DM).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is an entrapment neuropathy with a high level of morbidity if neglected. Boston Carpal Tunnel Questionnaire (BCTQ) was designed to track patients' progress after diagnosis. However, few studies showed that this questionnaire might be applicable as a screening tool for CTS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDrugs can have a wide array of effects on hematological cells, including red blood cells (RBCs), white blood cells (WBCs), and platelets. Drug-induced hemolytic anemia (DIHA) can be explained by three different pathophysiological mechanisms. We present a case of a premature neonate born at 34 weeks gestation who was admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: and importance: Hyperornithinemia, hyperammonemia, and homocitrullinuria (HHH) syndrome (OMIM 238970) seems to be an autosomal recessive disorder caused by a mitochondrial ornithine transporter 1 deficiency, which results in urea cycle dysfunction. HHH is the most uncommon of the urea cycle diseases, with less than 100 cases recorded.
Case Presentation: A previously healthy 29 year old male presented to the emergency department complaining of decreased level of consciousness.
Introduction And Importance: Hereditary Folate Malabsorption (HFM) is an extremely rare autosomal recessive disorder with in the existence of only 30 families world-wide. It presents with hematological, gastrointestinal, and neurological problems.
Case Presentation: Three-month-old-boy with a familial history of HFM presented to the clinic due to persistent fatigue, yellowish discoloration, feeding refusal, and pancytopenia.
Introduction: Recurrency of Pancreatic adenocarcinoma after resection can be as high as 85%. Most of the recurrences happen within two years of pancreatic resection and may be local or present as a metastatic disease.
Clinical Presentation: Herein, we report a patient who presented with metastatic pulmonary adenocarcinoma after 20 years of curative resection of pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
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Introduction And Importance: Gallbladder lymphangiomas are very-rare, yet benign tumors that start developing in early life. Those tumors often go unnoticed until adulthood as they grow into a larger size or a complication happens. Despite its rarity, suspicion for the diagnosis should be maintained by the physicians.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Intraspinal Epidermoid Cyst (IEC) is a very-rare, yet one of the most benign tumors of the Central Nervous System (CNS). Very few cases of IEC were reported world-wide. Presentations depend on the location of the tumor with pain being the most common presenting symptom.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction And Importance: Factor V deficiency is a rare bleeding disorder with varying presentations from minor mucosal bleeding to a life-threatening postoperative bleed. Currently, treatment is mainly supportive with Fresh Frozen Plasma.
Case Presentation: A previously healthy 14-day-old male presented with an uncontrollable bleeding following a circumcision.