SAT-251 New Diagnosis of Acromegaly with DKA as Initial Presentation

Presentation of a case with perineal and bartholin gland inflammations as an initial manifestation of acute myeloid leukemia: case report

Background: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a malignant hematological disorder which has numerous manifestations at the initial step such as infections and hemorrhagic signs. This is the first report in which the diagnosis of AML was made after managing of Bartholin gland site swelling and pain as the chief complaint of a patient. Case presentation: Herein, we present a young girl who was refe...

[Laboratory diagnosis of acromegaly].

[Ventricular tachycardia as initial presentation of pheochromocytoma].

Pheochromocytoma presents with headache, sweating, and palpitations associated with hypertension, heart failure, and arrhythmias due to catecholamine secretion.1 The presence of sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) has been reported rarely.2,3 We describe a case of pheochromocytoma that manifested as sustained and incessant monomorphic VT. A 47-year-old woman with diabetes and hypertension un...

Myopericarditis as an Initial Presentation of Meningococcemia

From the Cardiovascular and Infectious Disease Divisions, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. This work was supported in part by Grant 5432 HL-07049 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. Requests for reprints shuld be addressed to Dr. James M. Kirshenbaum, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and W...

Wernicke encephalopathy as initial presentation of lymphoma

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