Objectives: To report a case of intravascular lymphoma (IVL) in a Caucasian patient who presented with anasarca as his sole clinical sign.
Material And Methods: A man presented with anasarca-type oedema and fatigue. After excluding heart failure, hepatic cirrhosis, nephrotic syndrome, hypothyroidism, AL-amyloidosis and adverse drug reaction which can all cause oedema, we turned our attention to capillary permeability disorders.
Adult onset Still's disease (AOSD) is a well-recognized clinical disorder characterized by involvement of various organs, including liver. However, acute hepatitis or hepatic failure is extremely rare, and most of the reported cases occurred during treatment with hepatotoxic drugs. Anakinra is an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe combination of synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis and aseptic osteitis is known as SAPHO syndrome. Osteitis involves the anterior chest, particularly the sternoclavicular and upper costosternal junctions. Diagnosis is difficult when there are no typical skin and bone lesions and differential diagnosis includes bacterial ostomyelitis, malignancy and Paget's disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe case is reported of non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) in a patient with giant cell arteritis and prostate cancer, and the relevant literature reviewed. To the present authors' knowledge, this is the first case to be reported where NBTE coexists with both arteritis and cancer. NBTE is difficult to diagnose if the underlying disease is accompanied by fever.
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