Frenotomy in Infants with Tongue-Tie and Breastfeeding Problems.

Background: Infant tongue-tie can cause breastfeeding problems, which may be improved by frenotomy. However, controversy exists among the medical community.

Research Aim: To examine the influence of frenotomy on infants with posterior ankyloglossia, by quantifying the changes in breastfeeding and maternal nipple pain using standardized tools.

Headaches related to rheumatologic disease.

Headaches are a common, but under-recognized and understudied symptom in the context of the rheumatic diseases. They can result from intracranial pathology, such as parenchymal and meningeal inflammation, thrombosis, space-occupying lesions, and more. Inflammation, irritation, or degeneration of anatomically related structures such as the eyes, neck, and sinuses can equally cause headaches.

Systemic lupus erythematosus: an overview.

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disease of unknown etiology in which the normal immune responses are directed against healthy organs and tissues. The disregulated immune system produces antibodies that attack the skin, joints, kidneys, heart, and brain. Some people experience mild rashes and arthritis, others suffer debilitating fever, fatigue, joint pain, and severe organ and/or life-threatening disease.

Drugs causing muscle disease.

Many drugs can cause myopathies, and such myopathies may range widely from asymptomatic elevations in the serum creatine phosphokinase levels to severe myalgias, cramps, exercise intolerance, muscle weakness, and even rhabdomyolysis. In this article, some of the commonly used drugs that may induce myopathies, as well as the clinical phenotypes, diagnosis, and management of these syndromes are reviewed.

Drug-induced myopathies.

The most common drugs currently in use that may cause myopathies were reviewed using the Medline database (U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland).