Myeloid sarcoma of the breast: a pathology that should not be forgotten

Late-onset spondyloarthritis: subset that should not be forgotten.

Staphylococcus lugdunensis; a pathogen that should be considered in Iran

Background: Staphylococcus lugdunensis is Gram-positive cocci of the staphylococcaceae family. S. lugdunensis despite having a clotting factor (wall coagulase), was classified in the coagulase negative staphylococcus group (CoNS) for lack of free coagulase. Although this bacterium is part of the human normal flora, in terms of virulence, S. lugdunensis is in second place after S. aureus. S. lug...

A reversible cause of blindness that should not be forgotten: cyclosporine-induced posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.

In November 2006, a 35-year-old Chinese woman known to have systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) treated with cyclosporine, was admitted to hospital with proximal muscle weakness and diagnosed with polymyositis. Systemic steroid treatment was then started. She developed generalised tonicclonic convulsion and sudden blindness in both eyes. She had no past history of hypertension or nephritis, thou...

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

Should the word ‘dementia’ be forgotten?

…Last scene of all, That ends thus strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. W. Shakespeare, As You Like It. About two years ago, D. L. Trachtenberg, the caregiver of a female patient with progressive cognitive impairment due to a neurodegen-erative disorder, and J. one of the leading researchers in neurodegenerative...