Difficulties of diagnosing mood disorders correctly

Diagnosing and managing psychotic and mood disorders.

Pulmonary hypertension: the importance of correctly diagnosing the cause.

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a complex condition that can occur as a result of a wide range of disorders, including left heart disease, lung disease and chronic pulmonary thromboembolism. Contemporary PH patients are older and frequently have a multitude of comorbidities that may contribute to or simply coincide with their PH. Identifying the cause of PH in these complicated patients can be c...

3241 Difficulties in diagnosing ocular melanoma

F Case 1 is a 20 year old woman, with known amblyopia o the left eye, who developped a massive intraocular hemorrhage leading to refractMy glaucoma, necessitating enucleation. Case 2 concerns a 68 year old woman also presenting a sevex intravitreal hem&age associated with a history of progressive visual loss over the past weeks. Repeated ultrasound examinations in case 1 showed a macular “staph...

Difficulties in Diagnosing Food-Borne Botulism

Botulism is a muscle-paralyzing disease caused by neurotoxins (types A-G) produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum. Symptoms of food-borne botulism most commonly appear 12-36 h after eating contaminated food, but the earliest neurological symptoms may in some cases start abruptly. Here, we report the cases of two patients with food-borne botulism who were admitted to the neurological emer...

Difficulties in diagnosing intrinsic spinal cord tumours.

Thirteen children with intrinsic spinal cord tumours were seen between 1984 and 1995. In only one was this the presumptive diagnosis at referral, despite a high incidence of characteristic features. Eight had presented to their local paediatrician, four to local orthopaedic teams, and one to a general surgeon. Eleven had back pain. Eleven had either spinal curvature or change in gait. The inter...