Henoch–Schö nlein purpura; IgA nephropathy; leuko-cytoclastic vasculitis; rapid progressive glomerulo-A 29-year-old patient sought medical advice in March nephritis; treatment 1998 for painful and swollen fingers. A week before hospital admission he had noticed progressive rash on the extremities, arthralgia of hips and shoulders and blue patches of skin on the dorsal fingers. He had a 10-year ...

Sir,?The following case may interest your readers:? Gopal Singh, a Gurkha, aged 20 years, was admitted to this hospital on the 11th June 1924. A clinical diagnosis of malaria was made, and he was put on to quinine by the mouth. Blood films were unfortunately not examined. On the 14th he complained of severe pain in both legs, for which no obvious cause could l>e found. On the 15th both feet wer...

We present a dynamic contact-free continuous-wave diffuse optical tomography system for the detection and monitoring of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in the foot. Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) is the narrowing of the functional area of the artery generally due to atherosclerosis. It affects between 8-12 million people in the United States and if untreated this can lead to ulceration, ga...

Hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) comprises a group of rare disorders characterized by persistence of blood hypereosinophilia (>1500 mm ') for >6 months; and definite signs of organ involvement without the secondary causes of eosinophilia ( 1 ). Cutaneous findings are present in up to 50% of patients with HES, e.g. pruritic papules, eczema-like patches, urticarial plaques, and angioedema ( 1). I...

Variceal bleeding and hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) are serious and life-threatening complications of advanced liver disease. Terlipressin is widely used to manage both acute variceal bleeding and HRS due to its potency and long duration of action. The most severe (though rare) adverse event is ischemia. The present report describes the case of a patient with gangrene and osteomyelitis secondary t...

PATIENT Female, 12 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Antiphospholipid positive SLE Symptoms: Gangrene • Raynaud's phenomenon • autoamputation of the terminal phalanx of the second left hand finger MEDICATION Prednisolone • mycophenolate mofetil • captopril Clinical Procedure: Renal Biopsy • treatment of lupus nephritis • control of hypertension Specialty: Pediatric rheumatology. OBJECTIVE Unusual clinical c...