We describe a case of epileptic seizures occurring after the use of a COX-2 inhibitor. A 61-year-old man was admitted to our department because of a generalized tonic-clonic seizure. EEG showed generalized slowdown of the activity. Neuroimaging and blood samples studies did not evidence alterations, but a careful pharmacological history revealed that the patient had taken the COX-2 inhibitor et...

RATIONALE Pregnancy and lactation-associated osteoporosis (PLO) is very rare, but it can cause severe vertebral compression fractures with disabling back pain. Although it is a rare, PLO must be kept in mind in the differential diagnosis in patients presenting with low back pain during or after pregnancy. PATIENT CONCERNS A 23-year-old woman who suffered from lumbago and fractures in the vert...

IN the year ending on the 31st December, 1952, there were one hundred and twelve cases of acute poliomyelitis admitted to the Northern Ireland Fever Hospital. One hundred and eleven patients were admitted as suspected cases of poliomyelitis. Of these the diagnosis was correct in seventy-one. In the forty in whom the diagnosis was not confirmed no distinctive condition could be found in twenty-t...

Previous traditional surgery is simple removal of nucleus pulposus, but the study of Eie et al. shows high recurrence rate of lumbago and herniation after such surgery, 3 therefore, fusion internal fixation of interbody fusion cage combined with bilateral pedicle internal fixation system is often used for treatment at present, so that three-dimensional fixation can be achieved at fused lumbar s...

RATIONALE Draksharishta (DRK) is an Ayurvedic formulation approved by the "National formulary of Ayurvedic Medicine 2011", of Bangladesh. It is widely available in the Bangladeshi market as an effective preparation to treat lumbago, sciatia and arthritic pain of joints. But there are very scientific evidences available to support their common uses. OBJECTIVES Our present studies make an attem...

A 85-year-old woman with diabetes mellitus and prior myocardial infarction was transferred to the emergency room with loss of consciousness due to marked bradycardia caused by hyperkalemia. The T wave during right ventricular pacing was tall and tent-shaped while the concentration of serum potassium was high, and its amplitude during pacing was decreased after correction of the serum potassium ...

Juvenile fibromyalgia (JFM) is often diagnosed at a later stage. Therefore, little is known about its early phase. A 12-year-old girl with persistent lumbago without fever consulted an orthopedist, but imaging studies showed no abnormalities and analgesics were ineffective. She therefore visited our pediatric clinic. On digital palpation, she had pain in 13 of the 18 tender point sites of fibro...

We present the case of a 55-year-old patient with a history of chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation because of acute myeloid leukaemia. An incidental 4 × 3 cm measuring renal mass was detected while performing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for lumbago. The lesion was suspected to be either a renal cell carcinoma (RCC) or a leukemic infiltration. To decide about further treatment a ...