Monthly Archives: August 2016
An Unusual Cause of Thoracic Mass
Question: An 81-year-old man presented to the emergency department of our hospital with a painful bulge along the right costal margin after a blunt trauma. His past medical history included a non-Hodgkin lymphoma and a sigmoidectomy for sigmoid diverti… Continue reading
An Unusual Cause of Thoracic Mass
Question: An 81-year-old man presented to the emergency department of our hospital with a painful bulge along the right costal margin after a blunt trauma. His past medical history included a non-Hodgkin lymphoma and a sigmoidectomy for sigmoid diverti… Continue reading
An Unusual Cause of Thoracic Mass
Question: An 81-year-old man presented to the emergency department of our hospital with a painful bulge along the right costal margin after a blunt trauma. His past medical history included a non-Hodgkin lymphoma and a sigmoidectomy for sigmoid diverti… Continue reading
An Atypical Cause of a Typical Symptom
Question: A 53-year-old man presented with a 3-day history of odynophagia. His medical history was significant for multiple episodes of azole-resistant esophageal candidiasis, human immunodeficiency virus–hepatitis C virus coinfection (with a CD4 cou… Continue reading
An Atypical Cause of a Typical Symptom
Question: A 53-year-old man presented with a 3-day history of odynophagia. His medical history was significant for multiple episodes of azole-resistant esophageal candidiasis, human immunodeficiency virus–hepatitis C virus coinfection (with a CD4 cou… Continue reading
An Atypical Cause of a Typical Symptom
Question: A 53-year-old man presented with a 3-day history of odynophagia. His medical history was significant for multiple episodes of azole-resistant esophageal candidiasis, human immunodeficiency virus–hepatitis C virus coinfection (with a CD4 cou… Continue reading
Genetic Variants in the BMP6 Pro-peptide May Not Cause Iron Loading and Should Be Interpreted With Caution
We read with great interest the recent publication by Daher et al1 reporting variants in the pro-peptide of BMP6 in patients with iron overload. After identification, they attribute the iron loading phenotype to the variants, based on a series of in … Continue reading
Genetic Variants in the BMP6 Pro-peptide May Not Cause Iron Loading and Should Be Interpreted With Caution
We read with great interest the recent publication by Daher et al1 reporting variants in the pro-peptide of BMP6 in patients with iron overload. After identification, they attribute the iron loading phenotype to the variants, based on a series of in … Continue reading
Genetic Variants in the BMP6 Pro-peptide May Not Cause Iron Loading and Should Be Interpreted With Caution
We read with great interest the recent publication by Daher et al1 reporting variants in the pro-peptide of BMP6 in patients with iron overload. After identification, they attribute the iron loading phenotype to the variants, based on a series of in … Continue reading
An Elderly Woman with Facial Erythema and Hematomesis
Question: A 72-year-old woman with a history of schizophrenia presented to our hospital with dysphagia and hematemesis. She had complaints of fever and painful erythema around the mouth for the past 3 days. Her vital signs were normal except body tempe… Continue reading