Objectives: Vitamin B12 is a micronutrient essential for appropriate neuro-cognitive, hemopoetic and cardiovascular function. This study was planned to find correlation between vitamin B12 deficiency and its clinical, haematological and electrophysiological parameters. Material and Methods: This study was a cross sectional study which included 125 patients who had attended Maharana Bhupal Govt....

A 71-year-old man presented with digital gangrene worsening over 2 months (Fig. 1A and B). The bilateral radial arteries were palpable, but the left posterior tibial artery and bilateral dorsalis pedis arteries were not convincingly palpable. Neurological examination was normal and there were no skin lesions. Serum creatinine, serological evaluation of autoimmune and haematological diseases cau...

Graft-versus-host disease is one of the most frequent complications occurring after haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Recently, renal involvement has been described as a manifestation of chronic graft-versus-host disease. Immunosuppression seems to play a major role: clinical disease is triggered by its tapering and resolution is achieved with the resumption of the immunosuppressive the...

OBJECTIVES Myocarditis is a rare but serious manifestation of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) is a disorder of myocardial morphogenesis frequently associated to neuromuscular diseases. Hypertrabeculation, a cardinal echocardiographic feature of LVNC, might represent a morphological expression of a number of morbidities, nevertheless. The r...

Freund's adjuvant (FA) injected intracutaneously into the rat is known to induce a systemic disease (Pearson, 1956; Pearson and Wood, 1959; Pearson, Waksman, and Sharp, 1961; Ryzewska and Ryzewski, 1965). Its most common manifestation is polyarthritis, which can be accompanied by skin changes, genito-urinary lesions, diarrhoea, and eye involvement. These changes resolve slowly but the joint les...

Pyoderma gangrenosum and Sweet's syndrome are classified as neutrophilic dermatoses as they exhibit intense dermal inflammatory infiltrates composed of neutrophils with little evidence of a primary vasculitis. They share several characteristics and respond to immunosuppressives. Aetiology is felt to represent a manifestation of altered immunologic reactivity. Patients with both conditions concu...

To cite: Nijsse B, Roks G. BMJ Case Reports Published online: 28 November 2012 doi:10.1136/bcr-2012007347 DESCRIPTION A 73-year-old man presented with paresthesias of the fingertips and weakness of the abductor pollicis brevis muscle and the opponens pollicis muscle of both hands. Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) was suspected and confirmed by electromyography. The presence of swelling and pitting ...

background: according to some provincial reports, prevalence of hepatitis a has had a decreasing trend during the past decade in iran. we aimed to overview clinical manifestations and laboratory findings of iranian pediatric patients diagnosed with hepatitis a infection. materials and methods: this retrospective study was performed on 162 consecutive pediatric cases of hepatitis a infection. da...

background and objective: chronic renal failure (crf) may have many effects on nervous system and manifest as headache, seizure, dialysis disequilibrium syndrome, cerebral hemorrhage, hypertensive encephalopathy, uremic neuropathy, and some neurologic complications of transplantation. in this present study we investigate neurologic disorders in children with crf. methods: in this descriptive, c...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Lymphadenopathy and haematological alterations are the earliest manifestations with other associated opportunistic infections and malignancies. Hence, there is a need for simple investigations like fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) for evaluation of HIV lymphadenopathy and a haemogram to interpret the haematological alterations. This study was undertaken to analyze ...