Had one of those yes-this-is-how-it-could-work moments recently. I was sat at the back of a departmental lunchtime meeting (in Turo) recently eating a cake and clocking up some CPD. There was a presentation on ‘refeeding syndrome’ and I managed to search BMJ Case Reports for ‘refeeding syndrome’ on my recently acquired smartphone and found several […]
Month: January 2011
POEMS syndrome – a unique presentation of a rare paraneoplastic syndrome
This is an interesting story of a 40 year old man who developed severe hip pain after tripping on the pavement. From the opening description one would suspect a pathological fracture and the authors proceed to meticulously describe the pathology behind the fracture. Interestingly in this case the pathology was not just confined to the […]
A very public neurosurgery case report
An account of the early management, prompt surgical intervention and subsequent care of a person with severe trauma from a bullet wound to the head is unfolding in the world’s press. The news of the tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the killing and injury of several others by a gunman in Arizona has […]
360 degree case reports – e.g. rheumatoid arthritis
I highly recommend reading a recent case report published in the BMJ that talks about rheumatoid arthritis from the perspectives of the patient, her clinician and the National Rheumatoid Society that she represents. (1) It is an historic account of her disease from presentation, how treatments have changed over the last 20 years, and the […]
Torsades de Pointes Associated with Methadone and Voriconazole
The authors describe in detail the presentation of this patient with Torsades de Pointes tachycardia. They go on to argue the case that the interaction of methadone and voriconazole led to the presentation. An excellent case with good ECG recordings. Dean Jenkins Editor at Large Torsades de Pointes Associated with Methadone and Voriconazole […]