A 26-Year-Old Woman with Recurrent Loss of Consciousness

A 46-Year-Old Woman with Unilateral Hearing Loss: A Recent Diagnosis of a Birth Condition

Cochlear nerve (CN) aplasia refers to the absence of a visible CN on oblique sagittal magnetic resonance images of the lateral aspect of the inner auditory canal (IAC). Magnetic resonance (MR) is the preferred technique in patients with sensorineural hearing loss and/or vertigo; however, computed tomography (CT) is used to evaluate the IAC or facial nerve canal. Three types of aplasia or hypopl...

bronchoscopic extraction of a hydatid membrane in a 26-year-old woman with recurrent pneumonia

A 26 Year-Old Woman with AIDS and Pneumonia

A 26 year-old woman was referred to our hospital with longer than four months history of fever, non-productive cough, progressive dyspnea and chest pain. The patient had been diagnosed with interstitial lung disease in another hospital three weeks earlier and prescribed prednisolone at a dose of 30 mg once daily along with salmeterol and ipratropium bromide inhalation with no improvement in her...

47-Year-old woman with spells of slurred speech, blurred vision, and loss of consciousness.

A 47-year-old woman presented with a 1-year history of spells characterized by slurring of speech, visual blurring, and on 2 occasions, loss of consciousness occurring 2 to 4 hours after meals and lasting 5 to 30 minutes. The spells were unrelated to fasting or physical activity. She also had milder spells of tremulousness, diaphoresis, and weakness occurring initially every other week but prog...

A 68-year-old woman with recurrent cystitis

Case presentation A 68-year-old Hispanic woman presented with a third episode of cystitis. She complained of multiple episodes of dysuria, frequency and suprapubic discomfort for the past six months. She denied fevers, chills, hematuria and flank pain. There was no history of nephrolithiasis and she had no other complaints. Her symptoms responded to oral levofloxacin, administered for 14 days a...