A 70-year-old man presented with progressive dyspnoea and weight loss. Physical examination revealed only mild pale conjunctiva. The workup showed mild anaemia, mild impaired renal function, and high globulin level. Multiple myeloma was excluded by normal serum protein electrophoresis. The chest radiography and computed tomography (CT) revealed bilateral multifocal patchy infiltration with medi...

An 80-year-old woman presented with simultaneous increasing muscle weakness and nephrotic syndrome. A renal biopsy confirmed focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). Her neurological diagnosis best fitted with a Guillain-Barre-like syndrome. There have been several cases of FSGS in combination with both conventional and atypical Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). Our patient was treated with high...

Introduction Meningococcal infection may present as meningitis or as acute-fulminating, subacute or chronic sepicaemia. There may be associated arthritis, vasculitis, episcleritis and intravascular coagulation (Whittle et al., 1973). Such complications which usually occur between 3 and 10 days from the onset of the illness, when patients are otherwise improving, have been attributed to immune c...

Eighty-four children with steroid-responsive nephrotic syndrome who had been shown to have, or were believed to have, minimal change histology were investigated to study the relationship between steroid-responsive nephrotic syndrome and allergy. They were found to have a greater incidence of the standard atopic disorders--asthma, eczema, recurrent urticaria, and hay fever. Their 1st-degree rela...

The Cronkhite-Canada syndrome (CCS) is a rare disorder of unknown origin characterized by generalized gastrointestinal polyposis, alopecia, hyperpigmentation, and onychodystrophy. We report a case of CCS with concomitant presentation of mononeuritis multiplex. The electrophysiological findings and steroid responsiveness suggests presence of an autoimmune mechanism.

Idiopathic recurrent polyneuropathy is one of several distinct syndromes involving the peripheral nervous system which share similar microscopic alterations of the interesting Schwann cell-myelin sheath of the axon collectively referred to as hypertrophic neuropathies (Austin, 1956; Byers and Taft, 1957; Thomas and Lascelles, 1967). In all six patients with hypertrophic neuropathy studied by Th...

We present a case of sarcoidosis complicated by total alopecia and a myopathy occurring in a young West Indian woman. There was a very satisfactory response to oral steroids.

MMARY Eighty-four children with steroid-responsive nephrotic syndrome who had been shown to have, or were believed to have, minimal change histology were investigated to study the relationship between steroid-responsive nephrotic syndrome and allergy. They were found to have a greater incidence of the standard atopic disorders-asthma, eczema, recurrent urticaria, and hay fever. Their 1st-degree...

Correspondence Address: Dr. Selen Gür Özmen, İstanbul Üniversitesi, Deneysel Tıp ve Araştırma Enstitüsü (DETAE), Sinirbilim Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul, Türkiye E-mail: [email protected] Received: 06.08.2014 Accepted: 06.09.2014 1Unit of Stroke Rehabilitation and Research, Memorial Şişli Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey 2Clinic of Neurology, Iğdır State Hospital, Iğdır, Turkey 3Unit of Intensive Car...

Inclusion body myositis (IBM) is an uncommon chronic inflammatory myopathy. Although the association between other myopathies and cancer has been well established, the relationship between IBM and neoplasia is not completely understood. Unlike polymyositis (PM) or dermatomyositis (DM), IBM rarely responds to immunosuppressive treatment and the response is seldom long-lasting. We describe a case...