A woman who was compulsorily hospitalised for manic psychosis proved to need quite different treatment from what was first assumed necessary. A woman in her late 50s with no prior history of mental...
A 15 month-old girl was admitted after a couple of months’ history of illness with remittent fever, increasing pallor and a swollen abdomen. On admission she was highly febrile, with palpably...
Abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting are a common reason for admission to a medical ward. In our patient with recurrent symptoms, the medical history suggested a little known condition. A man in his...
Weight loss in overweight women often enhances fertility. However, pregnancy is not recommended in the first year after bariatric surgery, because of an increased risk of nutritional disorder. We...
A man treated for stable Parkinson’s disease for 12 years developed a rapid deterioration of parkinsonian symptoms, mainly presenting as generalised rigidity. The dose of levodopa was increased...
Patients with heart failure often use many drugs, of which several are metabolised via cytochrome P-450 (CYP) enzymes. This is a group of enzymes where genetic polymorphism may lead to large...
A bang is heard in connection with endoscopic removal of a rectal polyp from a 71 year old patient, and the endoscope is expelled from the rectum. Explosions in the rectum are a rare, but feared,...
