The literature of pulmonary haemosiderosis includes an account by Campbell and Macafee (1959) of idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis associated with myocarditis. Their patient first had symptoms of shortness of breath at the age of 7; he was found to have the radiological changes of pulmonary haemosiderosis at the age of 12, and he died when 14 years old. Death was due to cardiac failure, and a...

Background: Imatinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor targeting bcr-abl, c-Kit, and PDGF receptors-alpha beta, is commonly used to treat GI stromal tumors hematologic malignancies. Hyperpigmentation known side-effect of imatinib, with intradermal hemosiderosis being the most common histologic finding.
 Case Presentation: We report rare case concurrent hypopigmentation hyperpigmentation seconda...

Restrictive cardiomyopathies in the pediatric population have diverse etiologies, including storage diseases like hemosiderosis, glycogenoses and desmin with its associated proteins. Desmin-related myopathy is a rare familial disorder of the cardiac and skeletal muscle characterized by intrasarcoplasmic accumulation of desmin-reactive deposits in the muscle cells. The patients commonly present ...