Publications by authors named "Iris Amitay"
Background: DRESS syndrome (drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms) is a rare but severe drug reaction.
Observations: A 27-year-old male with paranoid schizophrenia was hospitalized with all three diagnostic criteria of DRESS syndrome: cutaneous drug eruption, hematological abnormalities (presence of atypical lymphocytes on blood smear) and systemic involvement (generalized lymphadenopathy and hepatitis). On hospitalization the patient exhibited an unusual fever pattern of high temperatures in the morning hours and lower temperatures towards evening.
Background: While regular yearly screening for diabetic retinopathy and nephropathy is well established in patients with diabetes mellitus, there are no standardized diagnostic tests for diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN). In the present study, we compared the bedside neuropathy disability score (NDS) with quantitative sensory testing (QST) for screening for DPN in youth with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
Methods: One hundred sixty-six patients aged 10 to 34 years (median 21 years) were evaluated for DPN by the NDS and QST.
Background: Acquired ichthyosis is a known paraneoplastic sign of lymphoproliferative malignancies, with histopathologic findings that are nonspecific, revealing no insinuation of the underlying neoplasm. Ichthyosiform eruption as a specific manifestation of mycosis fungoides (MF), ie, ichthyosiform MF, is, however, regarded as rare and to date has been reported in only a few cases.
Objective: We sought to study the clinical, histopathologic, immunohistochemical, and genotypic features of patients with ichthyosiform MF.