Vanishing bone disease with multisystemic involvement may mimic systemic autoimmune or autoinflammatory diseases. We present a 19-year-old man who was hospitalized due to chest pain following a progressive osteolysis of the bony thorax. The disease later expanded into the pleura, peritoneum and pericardium in a form of massive chylous polyserositis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To evaluate the epidemiology and outcomes for initiation of inappropriate urinary catheterization (IUC) among hospitalized patients.
Setting: A 450-bed, tertiary-care hospital.
Patients: All patients admitted to the hospital from September 1, 2003 to June 12, 2004 with urinary catheter (UC).