Acute myocarditis presenting as acute coronary syndrome: role of early cardiac magnetic resonance in its diagnosis.

Background: In patients presenting with acute cardiac symptoms, abnormal ECG and raised troponin, myocarditis may be suspected after normal angiography.

Aims: To analyse cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) findings in patients with a provisional diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in whom acute myocarditis was subsequently considered more likely.

Methods And Results: 79 patients referred for CMR following an admission with presumed ACS and raised serum troponin in whom no culprit lesion was detected were studied.

Human papillomavirus is detected in transitional cell carcinoma arising in renal transplant recipients.

Aims: We investigated the role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the development of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) arising in renal transplant recipients.

Methods: Genomic DNA was extracted from 10 microm paraffin embedded sections of five TCCs arising in five renal transplant recipients using the QIAamp DNA mini kit according to the manufacturer's instructions. beta-globin PCR was performed to test DNA adequacy.

Phaeochromocytoma crisis presenting with profound hypoglycaemia and subsequent hypertension.

A patient was presented with four days of vomiting, abdominal pain and sweating. At presentation the Capillary Blood Glucose (CBG) was 1.7 mmol/L, the Blood Pressure (BP) was 182/102 mmHg, and the pulse 100 bpm.

Gonadotropins and prostate cancer: revisited.

Luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone are called gonadotropins, because they stimulate the gonads - in males the testes and in females the ovaries. They are not necessary for life, but are essential for reproduction. In addition, the association of these hormones with prostate cancer has been the interest of many researchers.

Assessing the size and stage of testicular germ cell tumours: 1984-2003.

Objective: To assess the size and stage of testicular tumours on presentation in the period 1984-2002.

Patients And Methods: Demographic details and information on staging on 550 patients treated at St. Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital in the period 1984-2002 were collected prospectively in the departmental database.

Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-C and VEGF-D, and their receptor VEGFR-3, during different stages of cervical carcinogenesis.

Cervical carcinogenesis has well-defined stages of disease progression including three grades of pre-invasive lesions--cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grades 1-3 (CIN 1-3)--and invasive cervical cancer. However, the biological properties of CIN lesions prone to develop invasive disease are not well defined. Recent observations suggest that early invasive disease spreads to regional lymph nodes in several tumour types and that growth factors (VEGF-C and VEGF-D) involved in new lymphatic vessel formation may play a crucial role in this process.