INSANITY FOLLOWING MUMPS.

Diabetic ketoacidosis following mumps.

A-13-year-old girl presented with diabetic ketoacidosis with convincing clinical signs of parotitis (fever, drooling of saliva, inability to swallow with development of bilateral parotid swelling) and pancreatitis (fever, abdominal pain and vomiting), along with high serum amylase and positive mumps IgM titer. This suggests that mumps virus may have been the causative factor, probably as a resu...

Insanity Following the Use of Indian Hemp

There is a special form of mental disease met with in India usually classed as Toxic Insanity which seems to have a direct relation to the excessive use of hemp drugs in any form. It has a definite train of sj'mptoms of a fairly uniform character; there is in the large majority of those affected no hereditary history of insanity, nervous disease or tubercle; the sufferers are men of every age (...

Insanity

Erythema multiforme following live attenuated trivalent measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.

Interesting Case Thyroiditis and iodide mumps following an angioplasty

A 51-year-old man on maintenance haemodialysis developed an acute and dramatic swelling of the thyroid and salivary glands, following administration of iodine containing contrast media. He underwent an aortofemoral angioplasty for peripheral vascular disease requiring 300ml of Visipaque 320 contrast media; the following day he developed a grossly enlarged, tender thyroid with swelling and tende...