[Spontaneous ileopsoas hematoma: a rare and lethal complication of liver cirrhosis].

Spontaneous ileopsoas hematoma is a rare and potentially lethal complication of liver cirrhosis, with exceptional mention in medical literature. In this article we present a clinical case diagnosed in a patient with alcoholic liver cirrhosis.

[Overlap syndrome].

The overlap syndromes are characterized by the occurrence in the same patient of two or more autoimmune diseases. The overlap syndrome between scleroderma and polymyositis is rare. We describe a case of a 58-year-old woman in which the clinical expression, the effect of therapy and the evolution, support the concept that this syndrome is a distinct clinical entity in the spectrum of autoimmune disease.

[Images in cardiology after clinical observation - aortic dissection in Marfan syndrome].

Introduction: Stanford type A aortic dissection is a rare phenomenon with high short-term mortality and clinical manifestations that can make differential diagnosis a lengthy process requiring several diagnostic examinations.

Objectives: Based on a case report, the aim is to highlight the importance of physical examination in the initial management of these patients and of rapid access to a surgical center. A brief review follows on the diagnosis and treatment of ascending aortic dissection, and its specific nature in Marfan syndrome.

[Bardet-Biedl syndrome].

Bardet-Biedl syndrome is a rare disease characterized by pigmentary retinopathy, dysmorphic extremities, obesity, renal abnormalities and hypogonadism only in men. The authors present a typical case and made a brief commentary about the disease's cardinal manifestations.