P35 Vasculitis by any other name would present just the same

'Depression by any other name...'.

There is a popular conviction that psychological disturbance is invariably a reaction to environmental events. This approach is associated with total rejection of the so-called 'medical model'. However, allowance must be made for the fact that contemporary krnow-ledge of psychiatric illness is well behind what is now known about general medicine, and current ideas about psychiatric aetiology ma...

Cellulitis, by any other name.

“I know it when I see it . . . ,” as Justice Potter Stewart famously said of hard-core pornography. Would that this were the case with cellulitis. In principle, cellulitis is simply defined as an acute infection with inflammation of the skin involving the dermis and subcutaneous tissues. In practice, because of the overlapping signs and symptoms of skin infections, the terminology has become bu...

Brugada by any other name?

The article by Remme et al., and the editorial comment by Antzelevitch, fortuitously again forgot that the syndrome known worldwide as the Brugada syndrome had been described by Nava, Martini and Thiene more than 4 years before Brugada. There is autoptical evidence in the medical literature that this syndrome is related to some form of right heart disease (which does not mean typical right vent...

A mushroom by any other name would smell as sweet: Dracula orchids

Mimicry, like coral snakes and their nonvenomous imposters, is one of the most compelling examples of evolution by natural selection. Although mostly known from animals that gain protection by resembling an unpalatable or harmful compatriot, both types of mimicry, Müllerian and Batesian, also occur in plants and fungi. Some fungi are known to mimic flowers to dupe pollinators into vectoring spo...

Systemic sclerosis classification: a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?