Paraplegia and acute aortic dissection: a diagnostic challenge for physicians in the emergency situation.

Acute aortic dissection presenting neurological symptoms is rare and entails significant diagnostic challenges. We present a case of 45-year-old woman with a medical history of essential hypertension and smoking, admitted with lobar pneumonia. During her inpatient treatment, she developed severe back pain and numbness below the level of the umbilicus.

The relationship of eosinophilia with outcomes of Hirschsprung disease in children.

Purpose: It has been postulated that children with Hirschsprung disease (HD) and mucosal eosinophilia have been thought to have poorer outcome, but supporting evidence is lacking. The objective of our study was to review the outcomes of children with HD and mucosal eosinophilia.

Methods: A single center, retrospective review was conducted on all patients diagnosed with HD between 1999 and 2016.