Myhre syndrome: new reports, review, and differential diagnosis

[Ruvalcaba-Myhre-Smith syndrome].

Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis of Cushing’s Syndrome.

The clinical recognition of Cushing's syndrome and its biochemical confirmation is a challenging problem. The best diagnostic approach to patients with suspected Cushing's syndrome is still evolving. The traditional diagnostic approach of urine free cortisol and low-dose dexamethasone suppression testing may be inadequate when the degree of hypercortisolism is mild. Late-night salivary cortisol...

Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of Asperger syndrome

Asperger syndrome is an uncommon condition, but probably more common than classic autism (the only published population study estimated prevalence at 36 per 10 000 children for Asperger syndrome and 5 per 10 000 for autism (Ehlers & Gillberg, 1993)). Misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis of this disorder is a serious problem, and the average age at diagnosis is several years later than for autism (...

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, biology, new diagnosis and treatment: review article

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a malignancy of B CD5+cells and is the most common type of leukemia in adults. The disease is more common in men over 50 years in western countries. CLL is associated with defective apoptosis in B cells. CLL was traditionally regarded as a disease that occurs before naïve B cells meet the antigen in the lymph nodes. Laboratory diagnosis requires white blood...

Postcholecystectomy Syndrome: From Pathophysiology to Differential Diagnosis - A Critical Review

Cholecystectomy has an excellent therapeutic outcome. Up to 15-20 % of cholecystectomized patients, however, continue to have a variety of gastrointestinal symptoms such as fatty food intolerance, nausea and vomiting, heartburn, flatulence, indigestion, diarrhea, mild occasional abdominal pain attacks and severe RUQ pain with extreme post-cholecystectomy distress. The term used to describe this...