A 40-Year-Old Man with Rashes and Palpitations.

معرفی بیمار با زمینه‌ی دیابت و نقص ایمنی با تابلوی ضعف حرکتی ساق پای راست متعاقب زونا

Shingles is a delayed reactivation of varicella zoster virus as an outcome of sensory ganglia. Manifestation of sensory symptoms and vesicular dermatomal rashes in sensory area of involved nerve root is an expected event in the activation of herpes from sensory afferents whereby motor weakness and paralysis rarely occur. The present case was a 64-year old man with diabetes and immunodeficiency ...

Palpitations in a 64-year-old man.

A 64-year-old man presented with several weeks of intermittent irregular palpitations. He had no prior history of cardiac disease, hypertension or syncope. A 12-lead ECG revealed sinus rhythm with premature atrial and ventricular contractions and high QRS voltages consistent with LV-hypertrophy. Cardiac MR revealed asymmetrical septal hypertrophy and marked mid-myocardial hyperenhancement of th...

Palpitations in a 19-year old man and a slow heart rate at rest

A 19-year-old young man presents in your outpatient clinic with a history of palpitations. He had had one episode a few weeks ago but that episode terminated spontaneously. Another, more recent episode, had to be terminated in the hospital. His medical history is unremarkable and his family history reveals a pacemaker implant at age 42 in his mother’s brother. Physical examination reveals no ab...

Self-assessment corner Palpitations in a 43-year-old man

Herpes Zoster Induced Alveolar Bone Necrosis in Immunocompromised Patients; Two Case Reports

Introduction: Herpes zoster Infection (HZI) is a viral disease with painful skin rashes and blisters in a limited area on one side of the body, often in a strip. Osteonecrosis with spontaneous exfoliation of teeth in association with HZI of the mandibular nerve is a rare phenomenon. In this report, such an unusual complication of HZI is presented.   Case Report: The clinical course of a 53-year...