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Clin Case Rep
July 2024
Key Clinical Message: Osteopoikilosis is an asymptomatic osteosclerotic dysplasia, of autosomal dominant inheritance, which does not cause deformity or alteration in bone development, of incidental diagnosis. The differential diagnosis should be made with osteoblastic metastases, among others, especially if it is asymmetric and in patients over 50 years of age.
Abstract: Osteopoikilosis is a rare benign bone disease, characterized by the appearance of bone islands in the osseous tissue, which could be confused with bone metastasis.
Rev Esp Med Nucl Imagen Mol (Engl Ed)
May 2024
Servicio de Pediatría, Hospital Universitario San Pedro, Logroño, Spain.
Am J Case Rep
June 2021
Department of Biochemistry and Medicine, La Salle University School of Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico.
BACKGROUND Subacute thyroiditis, myocarditis, and hepatitis are inflammatory disorders that may develop after viral infections, including SARS-CoV-2. These entities may appear after resolution of the respiratory syndrome. CASE REPORT A previously healthy 64-year-old male patient came to the hospital reporting severe chest pain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntecedentes Y Objetivo: La amiloidosis cardíaca es una entidad que permanece infradiagnosticada, a pesar de los avances recientes en su diagnóstico y tratamiento. El objetivo de este estudio es revisar una serie de casos de amiloidosis cardíaca para describir los principales datos clínicos y los hallazgos en las pruebas de imagen.
Materiales Y MÉtodos: Estudio retrospectivo de pacientes con diagnóstico principal o secundario de amiloidosis cardíaca en los informes de alta de pacientes hospitalizados en este centro desde 2006 hasta 2016.
Amyloidosis due to deposits of transthyretin (ATTR) is currently considered the most frequent form of cardiac amyloidosis and its incidence is increasing thanks to the advances in diagnostic imaging techniques. Some non-invasive diagnostic criteria have recently been published on this entity that due to the development of new drugs for the specific treatment of cardiac ATTR, have prognostic and therapeutic implications. That is why cardiac ATTR could cease to be a rare disease and become a frequent one, and become potentially treatable instead of incurable.
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