BACKGROUND Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), i.e., infection with Leishmania sp. associated with high fever, weight loss, massive splenomegaly and markedly altered laboratory parameters, is generally fatal if untreated. The possibility of transient spontaneous remission of fully symptomatic visceral leishmaniasis (VL) has been mentioned but, to our knowledge) has never been documented. CASE PRESEN...

Spontaneous remission (SR) of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in adults is observed very rarely. To date, about 100 cases have been presented in the literature. To our best knowledge, we describe the first adult Polish patient suffering from acute myelomonocytic leukemia (48, XY, +13, +21/46, XY), in whom after supportive therapy, including non-irradiated, non-leukocyte depleted red cell transfusi...

We report a case of primary CNS lymphoma in which complete, though temporary, spontaneous clinical and radiologic remission occurred. This is the first such case report to our knowledge.

SEVERE hemolytic anemia after surgical correction of congenital endocardial cushion defects is a rare clinical entity, first described by Sayed et al. in 1961.1 Since then five more cases have been reported.2 4 All of these patients had an endocardial cushion defect with a cleft in the mitral valve. All defects were repaired with a Teflon patch, and the patients developed hemolytic anemia in th...

This brochure embodies further research on the part of the author into the problem of schizophrenia and is a sequel to his former publication, The Prognosis in Schizophrenia, a review of which appeared in the Indian Medical Gazette in 1938. Like its precursor, the present work is one of extreme importance. The author's research took the form of a personal examination of 100 cases discharged fro...

Japan, China, or Korea as it is a mixture of Caucasian population in the northern part, Mongoloid in the Eastern region and Dravidian in the Southern part of the region. To understand the variability of IBD in India amongst different ethnic and cultural groups, it is better to view it as a small continent rather than a large country. A unique feature of the sub-continent has been the large scal...