Sara earned her honours BA at York University in French and Italian studies. She is fluent in four languages—English, French, Spanish, and Italian—and lived and studied in Italy for a few years as a child. She brings with her five years of experience working in customer service and sales. Myriam Poncelet joined the CPD team in September 2013 as our new Accreditation Applications Coordinator. In...

A 54-year-old, post-menopausal woman has had migraine headaches since the age of 40, occurring about once per month, responding well to sumatriptan. She experiences a stabbing pain in the left eye and left side of head, associated with nausea and vomiting. The pain has only affected her left side but a brain MRI was normal. She has an aura of blurred vision in the left eye alone, seeing images ...

Copyright © 2007 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 51-year-old woman presents with a generalized tonic–clonic seizure. After a brief postictal period, she recovers fully and does not report headache or other neurologic symptoms. She takes no medications and her medical history is unremarkable. Computed tomography of the head suggests a right occipital arteriovenous malformation, without evidence...

To cite: Kulkarni S. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014207894 DESCRIPTION A 58-year-old woman was referred for surgical evaluation of chronic pancreatitis. Her pain started 6 months earlier along with anorexia and she lost 50 pounds. Two months earlier, she had started vomiting; the vomiting progressively got worse. She was vomiting three to four...

Fatemeh Karimi Tabar was born in Asadabad/Hamedan (Iran) in 1986. She completed her B.Sc. in chemistry in 2008 from Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran. She was graduated from M.Sc. degree in organic chemistry from Shiraz University 2010, Shiraz, Iran. She is currently Organic Chemistry Ph.D student under the supervision of prof. M.A. Zolfigol and prof. A. Khazaei in department of chemistry a...

MRS. G IS AN 83-YEAR-OLD WOMAN whom you started seeing one month ago. Her previous medical records are still in transit from New York, following her move to RI in order to live near her daughter. She presented with a known history of chronic atrial fibrillation, managed on Coumadin and Digoxin; hypertension on Toprol, Diovan and Norvasc; reflux disease on Nexium; congestive heart failure on Las...

S he has never been seen in our office before but called this morning wanting an appointment " right away " for her Pap smear and physical. Maria is 32 years old and is employed as a housekeeper at a local hotel. She has had three children and is healthy. As I listen to her I learn she is an immigrant from Guatemala, that her children are back home, and that she moved here 4 years ago to join h...

A 78-year-old woman suffered sudden-onset left hemiparesis. There were no remarkable infectious findings. Computed tomography (CT) demonstrated a low-intensity area supplied by the right middle cerebral artery (MCA). The diagnosis was cerebral ischemia and she was conservatively treated with hyperosmotic fluids. Two days after the ischemic stroke she suddenly became comatose. CT showed diffuse ...

A case of primary malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the breast is reported. The patient was a 48-yr-old woman with a huge tumor involving almost the entire left breast. The central portion of her left breast was already rotted by extensive necrosis and inflammation. She was treated by radical mastectomy and axillary lymphadenectomy to level I. Pathologic examination supported by an immunohistoc...