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A previously healthy male patient presented with relapsing serous effusions affecting the pleural, pericardial and peritoneal membranes, along with thrombocytopaenia, following infection with COVID-19 ...
Cholecysto-duodenal fistula (CDF) is a rare complication of chronic calculous cholecystitis. Due to advancements in minimally invasive techniques, a paradigm shift has occurred from the traditional ...
A 46-year-old man underwent coronary angiography for stable angina. He developed inferior ST-segment myocardial infarction during the angiography. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) findings suggested ...
An older woman with dementia and type 2 diabetes was started on semaglutide and subsequently developed severe psychological and physical symptoms, including apathy, significant weight loss and ...
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhoea is usually secondary to severe head trauma. Spontaneous CSF leak is an infrequent entity and represents only 4% of CSF rhinorrhoea cases.1 A 70-year-old obese ...
A 70-year-old man referred to emergency department with acute onset of severe flank pain. In initial examinations, the patient was pale, with pulse rate of 120/min and blood pressure of 95/65. In ...
A man in his 20s presented after a high-energy MCA. Initially, he was haemodynamically stable; the abdominal exam revealed a large right flank haematoma. On placement of a catheter, there was gross ...
A 27-year-old woman was referred to an orthopaedic surgeon for pain in the left buttock radiating to the posterior thigh, previously, which had been increasing during 3 months after pregnancy (a term ...
Primary splenic angiosarcoma is an extremely rare and aggressive vascular neoplasm associated with high rates of metastasis. A male patient in his 70s presented with thrombocytopenia. Physical ...
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) showed dysplastic inner retinal layers and adjacent normal-looking retina (figure 2A,B). This retinal morphology remained unchanged over 13 years of follow-up ...
A young pregnant woman in her 20s presented with a 2 month history of high-grade intermittent fever. She exhibited multiple painful nodules scattered across her body for 2 months, initially small but ...