A 28-year-old right-handed male presented in December 2012 with complaints of numbness in the right arm and leg. Neurological examination revealed right hemiparesis and hemihypoesthesia. He had a history of epilepsy, and his mother had Sjogren syndrome. He reported that the numbness in the right arm and leg had started 2 years ago and he was then diagnosed with vasculitis, and thus, was adminis...

We report a case of distal renal tubular acidosis in a twenty year old female patient of scleroderma and secondary Sjogren's syndrome. This patient presented with two episodes of flaccid quadriparesis which were associated with hypokalaemia and was later found to have an underlying scleroderma with secondary Sjogren's syndrome.

The aldehyde dehydrogenase gene superfamily comprises of 19 genes and 3 pseudogenes. These superfamily genes play a vital role in the formation of molecules that are involved in life processes, and detoxification of endogenous and exogenous aldehydes. ALDH superfamily genes associated mutations are implicated in various diseases, such as pyridoxine-dependent seizures, gamma-hydroxybutyric acidu...

De nombreuses pathologies ont été associées à la maladie cœliaque (MC). L'association avec un syndrome de Gougerot Sjogren (SGS) a rarement été rapportée, mais une association due au simple hasard ne peut être exclue. Dans ce cas, le risque d'oncogenèse est double et une surveillance régulière s'impose. Pan African Medical Journal. 2015; 22:33 doi:10.11604/pamj.2015.22.33.7608 This article is a...

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