Pulmonary embolism in COVID-19. When nothing is what it seems

What is Going on in Psychiatry When Nothing Seems to Happen?

When I started my career in psychiatry, more than 20 years ago, nobody thought about cognitive impairment in schizophrenia, we thought of this disorder in terms of hallucinations and delusions. The prevailing idea was that of a “chemical imbalance” somewhere in the brain that one could correct with dopamine blockers. If we could only keep that dopamine down, we thought, patients with schizophre...

All is not what it seems.

The presented book we offer here is not kind of usual book. You know, reading now doesn't mean to handle the printed book in your hand. You can get the soft file of all is not what it seems in your gadget. Well, we mean that the book that we proffer is the soft file of the book. The content and all things are same. The difference is only the forms of the book, whereas, this condition will preci...

NSAID intolerance: it is not always what it seems

Case A: 42 year old female patient without asthma or polyposis nasi presented with palmar and plantar pruritus, urticaria, facial angioedema and dyspnea on two occasions: 2 and 4 hours after the intake of two structurally independent NSAIDs (diclofenac 75 mg, mefenamic acid 500 mg). In both instances, pantoprazole, a proton pump inhibitor (PPI), was prescribed for gastric protection. A non-alle...

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Is It A Wolf Consuming Fertility?

Renal rupture – Not what it seems

A 20-year-old male judo teacher presented with acute left flank pain and gross hematuria. At the time of this presentation, the patient was hemodynamically stable. He had no clear history of blunt abdominal trauma, or preexisting conditions or previous surgery. Multiphase abdominal computed tomography confirmed an active extravasation from a segmental renal artery during the arterial phase (Fig...