Foreign body ingestion complicated by hypopharyngeal perforation (15 April, 2025) ...

A 61-year-old man presented to the ENT emergency clinic with a history of unilateral facial nerve palsy occurring shortly after each dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The first episode ...

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare immune-mediated disorder of the peripheral nerves. Although its cause is not fully understood, the syndrome often follows infection with a virus or bacteria, ...

A 40-year-old man presented with painless swelling of the neck for 3 years. He was well until 3 months prior to the presentation when he started losing weight and feeling lethargic. Clinical ...

Hydroxyl-methyl-glutaryl-Co-A reductase (HMGCR) immune mediated necrotising myopathy (IMNM) is a rare autoimmune myositis that is thought to be triggered by statins and responds to immunomodulation.

1 Department of Pediatric Surgical Services, Mary Bridge Children's Hospital & Health Center, Tacoma, Washington, USA 2 Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Mary Bridge Children's Hospital & ...

A 65-year-old woman with long-standing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) experienced a recurrent tingling sensation in her left arm followed by aphasia and a tingling sensation in her right arm. A subsequent ...

Acquired haemophilia A (AHA) is caused by autoantibodies that neutralise Factor VIII (FVIII) and can cause severe bleeding. The COVID-19 vaccine may trigger the development of acquired autoantibodies ...

Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is an inflammatory disorder of the liver with a wide spectrum of disease presentation, from asymptomatic elevations in liver-associated enzymes to acute liver failure. AIH ...

Transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) syndrome is a complication characterised by symptoms changing from an asymptomatic hyponatremic state to convulsions, coma and death due to absorption of ...

A 56-year-old woman presented with anasarca, hypoalbuminaemia and hypotension following cycle 3 day 1 of adjuvant gemcitabine for stage II pancreatic cancer. Due to the temporal nature of presentation ...

Papilloedema and raised intracranial pressure have been frequently reported with hypoparathyroidism, but very rarely optic neuritis. We report a case of a 54-year-old male patient who presented with ...