A Rare Case of Incidental Catamenial Pneumothorax With Endometriosis-Related Ascites and Pelvic Endometriosis.

Endometriosis is characterized by the ectopic implantation of a functional uterine lining outside of the uterus. Commonly, it occurs in the fallopian tubes, ovaries, uterosacral ligaments, and gastrointestinal tract. Less commonly, it may occur in the pericardium, pleura, and central nervous system.

Cirrhosis With Splenomegaly and Pancytopenia Complicating a Concurrent Diagnosis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

Pancytopenia, a hematologic condition, is a decrease in all three blood cell lines. The two main etiologies include decreased production or increased destruction of cells, as seen in nutritional deficiencies or liver cirrhosis, respectively. Pancytopenia commonly presents with fever, splenomegaly, and lymphadenopathy.

A Rare Case of Metastatic Uveal Melanoma Responding to Immunotherapy.

Uveal melanoma (UM) is an intraocular malignancy with poor survival rates due to the propensity for metastatic spread. Although treatment options exist for localized disease, there are fewer definitive guidelines for metastatic UM. Treatment involves a personalized approach that entails patient-specific aspects, including tumor genetics.

Duloxetine for treatment of male sphincteric incontinence following partial conus medullaris infarction after coronary bypass surgery.

Introduction: Vascular spinal cord injury following coronary bypass grafting surgery is very rare and this is probably one of few reports of a presumptive partial conus medullaris lesion leading to sudden onset bladder and bowel incontinence which was managed using duloxetine, a selective serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor. Duloxetine has been used in selected patients with post-prostatectomy sphincteric incontinence but not, to our knowledge, for spinal vascular lesions.

Case Presentation: A 63-year-old Indian man developed bladder and bowel incontinence immediately following coronary bypass grafting surgery.

Accuracy and precision of serum gastrin measurements in commercial laboratories.

Patients referred to us with "positive" secretin tests and the diagnosis of Zollinger-Ellison syndrome were found to be achlorhydric. This observation led us to study prospectively the accuracy and precision of serum gastrin determinations from commercial laboratories. Synthetic gastrin (G17) was added to serum to achieve gastrin concentrations of 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000, 3000, and 5000 pg/mL after subtraction of the basal value (24 pg/mL).

Cat gastrinoma and the sequence of cat gastrins.

Following the curative resection of a pancreatic gastrinoma in a cat, gastrin peptides were purified from the tissue and sequenced. The sequence of cat gastrinoma G17 (18-34) confirms the previously published sequence. The sequence of cat G34 (1-34) is reported for the first time.