منابع مشابه
Pseudo hypertension: Clue from Osler sign
Dear Editor, Pseudo hypertension (HTN) is a condition in which indirect blood pressure (BP) measured by the cuff method overestimates the true intra‐arterial BP.[1] It should be suspected if a patient develops dizziness after the start of antihypertensive or following dose escalation. The direct measurement of intra‐arterial BP is the gold standard for its diagnosis. However, it is an invasive ...
متن کاملScalp vein sign: a forgotten clinical clue?
Mahadevan S, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-220259 DESCRIPTION A 72-year-old man presented for general health check. He was asymptomatic except for hard of hearing and uses hearing aid for the last 4 years. Clinical examination revealed very prominent tortuous superficial temporal veins bilaterally, more on the left side (figure 1) with no bruit and a warm non-tender skull on pa...
متن کاملPseudo-Lyre Sign
Carotid body tumours cause characteristic splaying of the internal and external carotid arteries, known as 'Lyre Sign'. Vagal paragangliomas are rare tumours that arise from glomus cells along the length of the vagus nerve. We present a case in which a vagal paraganglioma has arisen from the vagus nerve at the carotid bifurcation, and has mimicked the 'Lyre Sign' of a carotid body tumour.
متن کاملDoes alcohol cause hypertension or pseudo-hypertension?
Most textbooks of medicine written since World War I1 do not mention alcohol as a cause of high blood pressure. Alcohol is, however, implicated in two books on hypertension published in the 1920s (Batty-Shaw, 1921; Halls Dally, 1926), presumably following the first report of an association by Lian (1915). Since the mid-1970s there has been increasing interest in this association which appears t...
متن کاملNeurological contributions from William Osler.
William Osler was one of the most remarkable clinicians worldwide, and his teachings in medical practice remain until the present days. Although Osler had never considered himself a neurologist, he contributed with clinical and pathological descriptions of numerous neurological diseases. He performed more than 800 autopsies studies of the nervous system and published over 200 articles in the fi...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2249-4863
DOI: 10.4103/2249-4863.197277