OBJECTIVES To review the literature on habit, tic, and psychogenic cough, and to make evidence-based recommendations regarding diagnosis and treatment. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY For data on adults, an Ovid MEDLINE literature review (through February 2005) was performed for all studies published in the English language, including case series and case reports, since 1966 using the medical subject head...

Thromb Haemost 2005;3:1432-6. 4. Dashe JS, Ramin SM, Cunningham FG. The long-term consequences of thrombotic microangiopathy (thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and hemolytic uremic syndrome) in pregnancy. Obstet Gynecol 1998;91:662-8. 5. Miner PE, Nutt RL, Thomas ME. Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura occurring in pregnancy. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1955;70:611-7. 6. Weiner CP. Thrombotic microan...

psychogenic abrupt asystole during spinal anesthesia is an uncommon occurence. a case is presented with literature review.

Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis and IgA nephropathy are currently considered to be different clinical presentations of the same disease. There is need for a reliable proven, morphologic classification that can help clinicians more accurately formulate treatment strategies for patients with Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis. Considering that Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis and IgA nephrop...

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a rare variant of thrombotic microangiopathy. We report case TTP in Nigerian chronic kidney disease (CKD) patient who was previously on clopidogrel. The features resolved soon after clopidogrel withdrawn. Clopidogrel cardio-protective anti-platelet drug used CKD patients at risk dyspepsia. However, its potential to cause should be recognized and cons...

Immune thrombocytopenic purpura is an infrequent yet well-recognized complication of viral infections, such as mumps, rubella, varicella, cytomegalovirus, parvovirus and infectious monunucleosis by Epstein-Barr virus. Some recent studies have described a possible association between Henoch-Schonlein purpura, a non-thrombocytopenic purpura, and seropositivity for Bartonella henselae, but in the ...

Unless the patient has reasons for ‘malingering’ – the symptoms are simulated for compensation or litigation motives – pain is always indicative of some degree of dysfunction. In most instances, the dysfunction is physical. Sometimes, however, the pain is devoid of any organic basis. If the patient has an unconscious belief in the reality of the symptoms, a psychogenic disorder is likely. The p...

Time- and content-based memory systems are briefly described so that their importance for a refined analysis of memory disturbances becomes evident. These memory systems are then related to their brain instantiation, emphasizing that there are limbic circuits for encoding different forms of memories, largely cortical networks for memory storage, and a combined temporofrontal network acting to t...