A Diagnosis Made in Vein

A Clinical Diagnosis Made Bench Side after Two Years

A Diagnosis Made by 'Facilitation'.

Lambert Eaton myasthenic syndrome is a presynaptic neuromuscular junction disorder, which has unique features on electrodiagnostic testing. Here we describe a middle aged lady with symmetric, progressive, areflexic weakness in lower limbs, who had the typical electrodiagnostic findings of diffuse attenuation of motor amplitudes, and increase in these amplitudes after brief exercise of the muscl...

a clinical diagnosis made bench side after two years

Pulmonary Vein Stenosis in a Newborn: A Commonly Overlooked Diagnosis

The diagnosis of primary pulmonary vein stenosis is often overlooked because its symptoms overlap lung diseases and pulmonary arterial hypertension. Its diagnosis may be difficult because the condition is progressive and associated with other defects. We present a case of pulmonary vein stenosis in a newborn with stenosis of the left-sided common pulmonary vein, diffuse hypoplasia of the superi...

Difficult Diagnosis & Management of Tuberculosis Made Easy

Tuberculosis (TB) is a well-known public health priority, involving thousands of physicians and nurses all over the world in a difficult diagnostic and treatment process. While in high TB (and HIV) prevalence settings, the disease is well known by all health staff categories, in the low TB incidence countries of Europe tuberculosis is becoming less and less prevalent over the last decades. The ...