INTRODUCTION The laparoscopic adrenalectomy approach to phaeochromocytoma surgery offers the opportunity to use new short-acting drugs to facilitate rapid recovery. CLINICAL PICTURE We report on 2 cases who underwent laparoscopic resection of phaeochromocytoma. The first was a 40-year-old lady who had been started on phenoxybenzamine 20 mg bd, but developed a recurrence of bronchial asthma af...

Adamantiades-Behcet disease (ABD) is a multisystemic, chronic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology with diffuse clinical manifestations including those involving the cardiovascular system. While the disease is most prevalent in the Mediterranean region, the Middle East and the Far East, its prevalence is increasing in Western countries due to migration patterns. Cardiovascular involvement ...

Background Patients with pre-existing rheumatic diseases may be exacerbated during SARS-CoV-2 infection, or develop new autoimmune features. Furthermore, immunosuppressive agents used to treat autoimmunity-inflammation as well comorbidities can also affect the disease outcome. Objectives To evaluate outcome of after Covid 19 infection in patients diagnosed diseases, under various treatment, eff...

PURPOSE To investigate whether atypical language dominance in epilepsy patients is related to localization and type of lesions. METHODS Four hundred and forty-five epilepsy patients received bilateral Wada testing. Language was classified as left (L), right (R), bilateral-dependent (BD, speech arrest after left and right injections), or bilateral-independent (BI, no speech arrest after either...

Skin photosensitizing reactions have been reported during treatment with fluoroquinolone antibiotics. The incidence and severity of such reactions, however, appear to differ between agents. The photosensitizing effect of grepafloxacin 400 and 600 mg once daily was compared with that of ciprofloxacin 500 mg bd and placebo in a double-blind trial involving 32 healthy subjects. Skin photosensitivi...

Introduction Auto-inflammatory syndromes are defined as conditions caused by an exaggerated innate immune system response, resulting in episodes of spontaneous inflammation affecting multiple organs. The prototypical auto-inflammatory disorders are associated with periodic febrile episodes. Auto-inflammatory syndromes now include polygenic diseases, such as Behcet’s syndrome and Still’s disease...

Gastrointestinal involvement is rare in Behçet's syndrome (BS) patients from the Mediterranean basin. We report the demographic and disease characteristics, treatment modalities, and outcome of patients with gastrointestinal involvement in BS (GIBS). We retrospectively reviewed the charts of all BS patients in our BS clinic with a diagnosis of GIBS. Patients were invited to the clinic to assess...

Intestinal Behçet's disease (BD), generally accepted as a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), could be diagnosed when patients with BD have objectively documented gastrointestinal symptoms and intestinal ulcerations. Similar to IBD, intestinal BD has an unpredictable disease course with relapse and remission and is often related to a poor prognosis. However, there is no single gold standa...