A 53-year-old Moroccan woman presented at our outpatient clinic with tenderness and redness of the right breast. For 3 years she had been peritoneal dialysis-dependent, due to a left nephrectomy because of nephrolithiasis and diabetic nephropathy. The peritoneal dialysis treatment had been unremarkable. The patient’s medical history revealed a 9-year history of type 2 diabetes mellitus with mul...

Penile gangrene is a rare disease. It represents a poor prognostic sign in end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients and an indicator of metastatic vascular calcification. Pathogenesis of this life threatening condition is not clearly understood and treatment is also controversial. We describe the case of a 61-year-old man known to have diabetes mellitus, chronic renal failure on haemodialysis, w...

This issue begins with Australian research showing that wearing superfine merino woollen clothing may help manage children with atopic dermatitis. Researchers from the US have reported that patients with hidradenitis suppurativa have changes in the expression of genes encoding enzymes involved in sphingolipid metabolic pathways. Research from Queensland reports on patients treated with diphenyl...