Medea: A mythological case of familial serial killer?

Physician as serial killer--the Shipman case.

Harold Fredrick Shipman, a British general practitioner, was convicted on January 31, 2000, of murdering 15 of his patients (and of forging a will of one of them) while he was practicing in a small town in northwest England. He had killed these patients by administering lethal doses of diamorphine (diacetylmorphine). He was sentenced to 15 concurrent terms of life imprisonment but committed sui...

An Enigmatic Personality: Case Report of a Serial Killer

This case report describes a man with aggressive and anti-social behaviors, a 47, XYY karyotype, abnormally elevated urinary kryptopyrroles and multiple brain injuries who is now serving a 250 year sentence for the serial murders of 11 women. These multiple abnormal findings have relevance as identifiable precursors for potential violence in such individuals with a history of behavioral disturb...

Genesis of a Serial Killer

Familial hypercholesterolemia: a case report

Abstract Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a hereditary dislipidemia. Patients present with extremely high level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), which is due to mutation in the gene of LDL receptor. Homozygous patients (HoFH) whose incidence is 1 in 1.000.000 are at high risk of premature aortic valve stenosis, and coronary artery atherosclerosis. In homozygous individual...

A FAMILIAL CASE OF PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS

A family in which two members are affected by pemphigus vulgaris is presented from Gilan. Up to now only 25 families in which more than one member was affected have been reported