Influence of tendon injuries on the clinical outcome of ankle and hindfoot fractures.

Background: Associations of tendon injuries with ankle and hindfoot fractures is a current concern and recent research has linked specific fractures with specific tendon injuries, despite its functional impact being unknown. The purpose of this study is to assess that impact.

Methods: Computed tomography scans of patients with ankle and hindfoot fractures were reviewed for tendon injuries.

Fatal febrile neutropenia during adjuvant chemotherapy for early breast cancer.

We report the case of a 76-year-old female patient with early breast cancer (hormone receptor-positive erbb2 amplified) that had started adjuvant chemotherapy with docetaxel, carboplatin and trastuzumab (TCH). Eight days after the first cycle of TCH chemotherapy, the patient was diagnosed with grade 1 oral mucositis, treated conservatively. The next day she started with nausea, vomiting, chills and fever, followed by a generalised tonicoclonic seizure.

The Relationship between Restless Legs Syndrome and Quality of Life in Patients with Myasthenia Gravis.

Background: Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is characterized for an uncomfortable sensation in legs and an irresistible desire to move them. This disorder has been more recently recognized in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) and can interfere with the quality of life (QOL).

Objectives: The aims of this study are to describe the prevalence of RLS and its severity and influence on the QOL in patients with MG.

Malignant hypertension, severe hypertensive retinopathy and malignant nephroangiosclerosis.

Hypertensive crises are frequent in the emergency room. The term covers a group of syndromes that have in common high blood pressure. When accompanied by acute organ damage, it is known as a hypertensive emergency, as opposed to a hypertensive urgency, in which there is no such damage.