Tylosis in a Woman aged 49

Cardiac Myxoma Removal and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in a Middle-Aged Woman: A Case Report

Cardiac myxoma is usually a benign tumor in the left atrium that accounts for more than 50% of primary cardiac tumors. A 55-year-old female referred to our hospital with chest pain, referred pain to the left hand, and severe dyspnea. Transthoracic Doppler Echocardiography was performed and the results showed a large and mobile left atrial mass without any attachment to the interatrial septum. I...

49-year-old woman with chest pain.

Abdominal Migraine in a Middle-aged Woman

A 52-year-old woman presented with recurrent, severe abdominal pain. Laboratory tests and imaging were insignificant, and treatment for functional dyspepsia was ineffective. The poorly localized, dull, and severe abdominal pain, associated with anorexia, nausea, and vomiting, was consistent with abdominal migraine. The symptoms were relieved by loxoprofen and lomerizine, which are used in the t...

Chronic rash in a middle-aged woman.

Volume 85, Number 10 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 987 A 53-year-old woman presented with a pruritic rash on the back of her left thigh that had persisted for six months. She had no new contacts and had not taken any new medications. The rash had partially responded to a moderate-potency topical steroid cream, but never fully resolved. She had a history of uncontrolled type 2 diabe...

Hyponatraemia in a prepubertal middle-aged woman.

Accepted 16 December 1997 A 7 1-year-old woman was referred to the hospital because of hyponatraemia. She had presented with nausea and vomiting one week before admission, and bradypsychia in the 24 hours prior to admission. The patient had never married. She reported primary amenorrhea and an absence of sexual development which had never been studied. She had a 10-year history of hypertension,...