Malignant hypercalcemia is a frequent metabolic complication of osteophilic tumors, exceptionally revealing cavitary cancer, but its prognosis remains poor despite early and adequate management. We report the case of a young patient, smoker without any previous history, admitted for the management of a digestive symptoms made of abdominal pain with food vomiting. The patient had an electrocardiogram withchest computed tomography scan and BBC evoking PA on malignant hypercalcemia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The capillary hyperpermeability syndrome is a rare disease that should be suspected in the presence of recurrent generalized edema without obvious cause, which may be idiopathic or secondary.
Case Presentation: In this case, we report a Clarkson syndrome secondary to an acute leukemia affecting a 4-year-old child admitted to the emergency room in respiratory and hemodynamic distress with a generalized oedematous syndrome and a bone marrow failure syndrome. Laboratory tests concluded that the patient was suffering from an acute lymphoblastic leukemia, hypoalbuminemia, pericardial effusion, and the absence of any other cause that is in favor of a capillary leak syndrome.
Introduction And Importance: The SARS COV2 infection is a challenging pandemic that has affected millions of people with a very high mortality rate. In addition to the typical respiratory symptoms, it can also cause variable skin lesions, such as vascular purpura in some exceptional cases.
Case Presentation: We report the case of a 60-year-old woman who was admitted for a SARS COV2 infection, the evolution was marked by the appearance of a vascular purpura at D20 after the beginning of the symptoms.