There are early reports of a new coronavirus not previously seen in humans. One case of severe respiratory infection is in a 49-year-old man being treated in Intensive Care in London. He was from Qatar and was flown to the UK after being admitted to hospital in Doha. A similar case of a 60-year-old man […]
Month: September 2012
TB: Pseudodementia due to intracranial tuberculomas
This report summarises a case history of a 25-year-old woman with a well known complication of tuberculosis, intracranial tuberculoma, manifest clinically with a depressed conscious level and cognitive slowness (“pseudodementia”) a few months after the initiation of anti-TB therapy. CT scan showed several tuberculoma with surrounding oedema. After re-institution of prednisolone the symptoms subside. The […]
TB: Paraspinal sinuses? Do remember renal tuberculosis.
Declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organisation in 1993, over one third of population of the world is infected with TB and 7% of all deaths in the developing world are attributed to TB. We present a series of cases that illustrate the varied presentations of TB. ————————————————————————————————- A small proportion of […]
Clinical Anatomy: Incidental detection of late presenting co-arctation of the aorta on chest x-ray
How better to revisit the applied anatomy of the thorax than in this case of a 31 year old man with shortness of breath on minimal exertion. Seema Biswas Editor-in-Chief Incidental detection of late presenting co-arctation of the aorta on chest x-ray: the importance of rib notching […]