Acutely ill newborns require prompt and correct treatment. Certain neonatal diseases carry a very high risk of recurrence in the woman’s subsequent pregnancies and births. In such cases, targeted...
A man in his forties had been repeatedly assessed over a period of 15 years at neurological departments and specialised epilepsy hospitals. The conclusion was always psychogenic, non-epileptic...
A man in his 80s had been treated for a long period of time for heart failure believed to be due to arterial hypertension. When the symptoms intensified, however, a different underlying disease was...
An elderly man with known myasthenia gravis was admitted as an emergency case after a few days of generally reduced condition, gurgling respirations and shortness of breath. This was the onset of a...
A young, previously healthy woman was admitted to the department of internal medicine with haematemesis and haemodynamic instability. Her haemoglobin level was low, and a rapid infusion of fluid and...
A woman in her seventies was admitted to hospital with reduced general condition, exertion dyspnoea and generalised pain, particularly pronounced in her calves. During the course of events the...
A boy who had a minor lung puncture at birth died at the age of four weeks after slow weight gain, failure to thrive, vomiting and poor urinary flow. The boy was born after 37 weeks gestation with a...
Headache with increased cell number in the spinal fluid, fever and meningeal thickening immediately gives rise to associations with bacterial meningitis. When there is sub-acute onset of symptoms and...
A man in his late seventies who had had well-regulated diabetes mellitus type 2 for the previous seven years suddenly developed a sharp increase in blood glucose and haemoglobin A 1c (HbA 1c ) levels...
We present a typical course for an infectious disease that is seldom seen in Norway. The case history illustrates the fact that both the patient’s account and a sound knowledge of unusual infectious...
