Calcific uremic arteriolopathy We have some very interesting images for you but, can you answer the questions below? 1. What are the indications for dialysis? 2. What are the complications of dialysis? 3. What is calcific uremic arteriopathy? If you don’t know the answers or want to know more read ’Breast pain in a patient […]
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Acquired savant syndrome
Following a head injury whilst skiing an anonymous US lady now complains of remembering too much. “I could remember everywhere, like flicking through the pages of a book. Every place I had ever been, but specifically the buildings.“ http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/acquired-savant-sydnrome The lady goes on to say that her neurologist is considering writing up her case. I wonder […]
The Case of an ACL deficient knee
Anterior Drawer test in an ACL deficient knee We have some very interesting images for you but, can you answer the questions below? 1. What is the anterior draw test? 2. What do you see in these figures? 3. How else might the ACL be tested? If you don’t know the answers, want to see […]
A rare but potentially fatal cause of diarrhoea and weight loss
Enteropathy associated T-cell Lymphoma We have some very interesting images for you but, can you answer the questions below? 1. Diarrhoea can kill – under what circumstances may diarrhoea be fatal? 2. What types of enteropathy do you know? 3. How would you manage life-threatening diarrhoea due to a range of causes? 4. How would […]
Virchow-Robin spaces
Hydrocephalus due to extreme dilatation of Virchow-Robin spaces We have some very interesting images for you but, can you answer the questions below? 1. What are Virchow Robin spaces? 2. What do these images show? 3. How would you manage this hydrocephalus? If you don’t know the answers or want to know more read ’Hydrocephalus […]
Student Editor BMJ Case Reports
BMJ Case Reports is looking for a medical student to work with us to enhance the journal for student authors and readers. BMJ Case Reports is an award winning online journal that publishes articles in all specialties – there are currently more than 10,000 published articles from 70 countries. We want the Student Editor to […]
A straight-forward stroke?
A typical presentation of type A aortic dissection We have some very interesting images for you but, can you answer the questions below? 1. How common is non-carotid disease stroke? 2. How would you routinely investigate a patient who presents with stroke? 3. Which patients benefit from anti-coagulation to prevent a first stroke? If you […]
Quiescent infective endocarditis in a patient with bronchopneumonia
Splenic abscess We have a very interesting image for you but, can you answer the questions below? 1. What would be your differential diagnosis in Figure 1? 2. What factors would determine whether you perform a splenectomy? 3. What is the latest evidence in terms of post-splenectomy sepsis? If you don’t know the answers or […]
Australian boy is first to receive ‘artificial pancreas’ insulin pump
Xavier Hames is a four year old boy with Type 1 diabetes and he has been fitted with an insulin pump that senses glucose levels and stops insulin – a step closer to an ‘artificial pancreas’. An artificial pancreas adds a glucose sensor to an insulin pump so that it can sense when to reduce […]
A word from the Editor In Chief – 10,000+ cases!
What would you do if you woke up one morning and found that you could not stand, your legs simply won’t move. This was exactly what the patient in this, our 10 000th case at BMJ Case Reports, discovered. He presented to the Accident and Emergency Department with sudden bilateral lower limb paralysis and urinary […]