A 19-year-old Patient with Recurrent Pruritus and Jaundice

a woman with recent jaundice and pruritus

A Woman with Recent Jaundice and Pruritus

A middle-aged woman suffering from jaundice and pruritus that had begun a month previously was presented to a physician.At the first assessment, laboratory findings had revealed a cholestatic pattern and serologic tests for hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis A virus (HAV) were negative. Normal findings of abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan and endoscopic retrogr...

A 21-Year-Old Student with Fever and Profound Jaundice

1 Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, 2 Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Jos, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, 3 Department of Medical Microbiology, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, 4 Leptospirosis Unit, Central Diagnostics Laboratories National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom, Pl...

Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis in a 9-year-old Boy

  Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) is a rare aseptic, auto-inflammatory bone disorder. CRMO presents with bone pain with or without fever. The diagnosis of CRMO is a diagnosis of exclusion and should be included in the differential diagnosis of chronic inflammatory bone lesions in children. Cultures of the bone are typically sterile, antibiotic therapy does not result in clinic...

Recurrent pancreatitis in a 16-year-old patient.

The prevalence of duodenal diverticula in the population varies from 0.16% to 22%. Generally, the presentation is asymptomatic and the finding is incidental during imaging tests. When diverticula cause symptoms, these usually include hemorrhage, diverticulitis, formation of bezoars, obstruction, perforation, pancreatitis, extrinsic compression of the bile ducts or cholangitis. We present the ca...