A Learning-Disabled Woman who had been Raped: A Multi-Agency Approach

Acute glomerulonephritis in an immunocompetent elderly woman after contact with a child who had been diagnosed as erythema infectiosum.

The prevalence of postinfectious glomerulonephritis has decreased in most developed countries. We report the case of a previously healthy, immunocompetent 65-year-old woman who developed acute glomerulonephritis associated with human parvovirus B19 infection. She was referred by her primary care physician for suspected congestive heart failure but she had an elevated creatinine level and an abn...

A case of nodular regenerative hyperplasia in a patient who had been taking didanosine

Purpose of study It is widely recognised that liver disease causes significant morbidity and mortality in HIV positive patients. Many patients are co-infected with hepatitis B and C, have increased alcohol intake or are on hepatotoxic medication e.g. nevirapine, which can cause acute hepatitis or liver cirrhosis. Nodular regenerative hyperplasia (NRH) is characterised by the presence of diffuse...

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Birth of a healthy child by a woman with inherited Xq duplications who had experienced stillbirths.

A 23-year-old woman who had experienced repeated stillbirths, was found to carry an additional segment on the long arm of the X chromosome. Array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) confirmed the origin of the 2 duplications (about 17.11 Mb). Thus, her karyotype was 46, X, dup (X) (q13.2-q21.1), dup(X) (q21.32-q22.1). We demonstrate that aCGH is a useful complementary tool to cytogenetic a...

A Case with Hyperthyroidism Who Had Been Treated with Thyroid Hormone Because of Congenital Hypothyroidism

We encountered a case with hyperthyroidism at the age of 14 who had been diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism (CH) and had received thyroid hormone replacement therapy. At the age of 16 d, the patient was referred to our hospital because of positive results at neonatal screening for CH. Serum level of TSH was 91.0 μU/ml and serum level of T4 was 6.9 μg/dl. The patient was diagnosed as havin...