An atypical presentation of antisynthetase syndrome

Odontogenic Fibroma of the Maxilla - An Atypical Presentation

Odontogenic fibroma (OF) is considered an unusual, benign mesenchymal neoplasm and one of the most little-understood lesions amongst all odontogenic neoplasms. The incidence rate of the tumor is from 0% to 5.5%. WHO classified them into intraosseous or central and extraosseous or peripheral variants. It chiefly consists of fibroblastic tissue with an inconsistent amount of inactive appearing od...

Acute digital ischemia: A rare presentation of antisynthetase syndrome.

Antisynthetase syndrome (ASS) is recognized as a subgroup of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs). It is associated with autoantibodies directed against aminoacyl-transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) synthetase enzymes. We report the first case of anti-PL-7/anti-SSA 52kD ASS presenting as acute digital ischemia, an association not described previously. Occlusive vasculopathy is a rare but seri...

Miller Fisher Syndrome – An Atypical Clinical Presentation

Miller Fisher Syndrome (MFS) is an acquired disease of nervous system which is considered as a rare variant of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS). Collier first described in 1932 as a variant of the Guillain-Barre syndrome with the triad of ataxia, areflexia and ophthalmoplegia. Charles Miller Fisher in 1956 described 3 patients with the symptoms of sluggish pupillary reflexes, acute external ophtha...

Antisynthetase syndrome

Tako-tsubo syndrome. Atypical presentation.

that had started following an argument. She did not have cardiologic symptoms, except for an ECG with negative T-waves in the lateral aspect and troponin T concentration of 0.06 in the laboratory workup (peak, 0.23). An emergency echocardiogram showed apical akinesia with preserved ejection fraction (Figure). Urgent coronary angiography performed 2 hours later showed a mild lesion in the right ...