Physicians often encounter patients who present with a chief complaint of skin changes or lesions in both acute and primary care settings. Early initiation of appropriate treatment and pharmacotherapy in patients who present with rash is crucial to prevent decompensation, morbidity, and further downstream utilization of hospital resources. Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, more commonly known as Sweet syndrome, is a rare and highly symptomatic inflammatory skin condition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMuch of the focus on the current opioid crisis remains on how we arrived here and who is to blame. Despite having effective treatments for the management of patients with opioid use disorder (OUD), rates of overdose deaths continue to increase. As such, the focus needs to shift to increasing access to medications for OUD and better incorporation of harm reduction strategies to decrease not just the mortality but also the morbidity associated with OUD and other substance use disorders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObstructed hemivagina and ipsilateral renal agenesis syndrome is a complex urogenital malformation usually presenting with obstructed menses and pelvic pain during female adolescence. The diagnosis can be established preoperatively with relative certainty by MRI or ultrasonography, and outcomes are usually satisfactory following surgical resection of the septal portion of the obstructed hemivagina. Such cases are best managed in referral centres with expertise in anatomical disorders of the female genital tract.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIsolated spontaneous midbrain hemorrhages are rare because they are usually secondary to hemorrhages from inferior structures such as the pons and cerebellum, or superior structures such as the thalamus and putamen. While the etiologies are largely unidentified, the most common ones are vascular malformations and bleeding diathesis with hypertension being relatively uncommon. We report midbrain hemorrhage in a 14-year-old boy with a long-standing history of frequent migraine headaches and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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