Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a medical emergency due to the high risk of permanent vision loss. It occurs most often in people of northern European ancestry, with a global prevalence of approximately ...
A male in his late teens presented with acute respiratory distress, subcutaneous emphysema and a pneumothorax in the setting of necrotising pulmonary tuberculosis. Imaging demonstrated a thick-walled ...
We report an adolescent girl with genetically confirmed Bardet–Biedl syndrome complicated by end-stage renal disease, epilepsy, psychomotor delay and cardiac anomalies. During intensive care for ...
A woman in her 30s presented with acute flaccid paraparesis secondary to severe hypokalaemia. She had a known history of ...
Riedel’s thyroiditis is an extremely rare fibrosing inflammatory disorder that extends beyond the thyroid capsule into surrounding structures. The disease usually progresses slowly; however, we report ...
T-cell large granular lymphocyte leukaemia (T-LGLL) is a chronic lymphoproliferative disorder often associated with pure red ...
Von Hippel–Lindau (VHL) disease is a hereditary cancer syndrome predisposing to renal cell carcinoma (RCC), typically considered more indolent than sporadic RCC. The ‘3 cm rule’ has guided ...
Musculoskeletal anomalies are present in up to 50% of patients with prune belly syndrome (also known as Eagle-Barrett syndrome), requiring extensive orthopaedic management. However, to date, no ...
We present the case of a man in his late 50s who was admitted with an acute ischaemic stroke and subsequently developed rapidly progressive encephalopathy, multiple bilateral infarcts and intracranial ...
A man in his late 60s with a history of arterial hypertension, dyslipidaemia and a cerebrovascular accident 20 years ago presented to the emergency department with sudden-onset blurred vision in his ...
Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is a rare, slowly growing salivary gland neoplasm distinguished by its versatile phenotype and destructive clinical course. Its underlying aetiology is unclear. It is ...
The inferior vena cava (IVC), formed by the confluence of the two common iliac veins at the level of L5, is the main venous ...