Key-words Disease name Definition/Diagnosis criteria Differential diagnosis Pathophysiology Clinical description Paraclinic testing and diagnosis Frequency Treatment Reference

despite all the diagnosis and treatment processes of pulmonary thromboembolism (pte), it is still associated with a high rate of mortality. we describe a massive pte case of a 73-year-old woman with unusual clinical manifestations.

Two important characteristics make this paraclinic method different from others; to be both functional and objective. Many ocular tests as angiography, ultrasonography and OCT are objective but not functional, and some, as perimetry and contrast sensitivity test are functional but not objective. This is why electrodiagnostic tests are problem solving and conclusive in equivocal instances specia...

INTRODUCTION In this study we tested how a combination of early and late paraclinic markers could predict early onset neonatal sepsis (EONS). METHODOLOGY The first 24 hours after the suspicion of EONS, we measured interleukine (IL)-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-18, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), interferon gamma (INF-gamma), procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) at 8-hour intervals ...

Ménétrier's disease is a rare cause of hypertrophic gastropathy that is usually confined to the gastric body and fundus. It is characterized by giant rugae, hypoalbuminemia, and foveolar hyperplasia. Here we report the case of a 26-year-old woman who presented with epigastric pain, postparandial nausea-vomiting, and weight loss. Paraclinic evaluation revealed hypoalbuminemia and hypochromic mic...