VAGINISMUS, TREATED SUCCESSFULLY WITHOUT OPERATION.

Hydatid cyst of the spinal canal successfully treated by operation.

Acute promyelocytic leukemia can be treated successfully without cytotoxic chemotherapy.

In their scholarly article, Dr. Park and Dr. Tallman review the important clinical trials for treating patients with APL reported over the last two decades and argue the case for further reduction and perhaps elimination of conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy in the frontline treatment of this disease.[1] Treatment of APL has evolved during the last several decades following the demonstration t...

A Case of Pyeloduodenal Fistula Successfully Treated without Nephrectomy

Pyeloduodenal istula is a rare condition and due to its rarity its management has not been well established. We present here a case of a 69-year-old male patient with a long history of lower urinary tract malignacy as well as urinary stones who was admitted to the hospital due to progressive gastrointestinal and constitutional symptoms. Computed tomography showed an Urinoma outgoing from the ri...

Intravenous OxyContin-associated thrombotic microangiopathy treated successfully without plasma exchange.

A 56-year-old man of European ancestry with no clinically significant medical history presented with a 3-day history of periumbilical abdominal pain. He admitted to daily intravenous (IV) misuse of oral extended-release oxycodone hydrochloride (OxyContin; Mundipharma) over a period of months. For the 5 weeks before presentation, he had been injecting the new tamper-resistant formulation because...

Coronary artery steal via large coronary artery to bronchial artery anastomosis successfully treated by operation.

We report a patient with a large coronary artery to bronchial artery anastomosis causing angina by coronary steal. Angina was refractory to medical treatment, but successfully relieved by surgical ligation of the anastomosis.