Acute kidney injury following isotretinoin treatment.

Patient: Female, 17 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Acute kidney injury Symptoms: Flank pain • nausea • vomiting

Medication: Isotretinoin Clinical Procedure: Acne treatment Specialty: Nephrology Objective: Unknown etiology.

Background: Isotretinoin is widely used for the treatment of acne that is unresponsive to topical therapy. Despite its efficacy, isotretinoin has various adverse effects, including cheilitis, increased risk of cutaneous Staphylococcus aureus infections, and liver function abnormalities.

Seeking out high risk population: the prevalence characteristics and outcome of diabetic patients of arab ethnicity hospitalized in internal medical and acute coronary units in Israel.

Aims. To seek high risk population for diabetes and to improve their health care by investigating the characteristics and outcome of hospitalization in hospitals with predominant Arab patients in Northern Israel. Methods.

Bone mineral density in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis treated with corticosteroids.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the bone mineral density (BMD) in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) prior to and 6 months after adding low-dose corticosteroid (CS) treatment. Adult patients (>21 years old) with early RA (symptom duration <1 year) and severe joint pain under maximal dose of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) were started on low-dose prednisone (10 mg/day). Patients were evaluated after 1, 3, and 6 months.

Diabetic muscular infarction: emphasis on pathogenesis.

Diabetic muscular infarction is a rare complication of diabetes. It usually occurs in those with target organ involvement of diabetes, generally affecting one or a group of muscles of the thigh, and can recur. The pathogenesis of the disease is still not clear.