A woman was first seen several months after her husband had died following cardiac transplantation. She had gone into mourning and cried freely at the time, but was indignant about the failure of the surgery. She felt her husband should not have chosen surgery knowing that there was a chance he would not survive and would leave her widowed; she had cared for him 'devotedly' during his nine-year...

mohaddeseh seddighi was born in rasht, guilan, i. r. iran (1985). she received b.sc. in applied chemistry from isfahan university of technology (iut) (2007) and his m.sc. in organic chemistry from isfahan university of technology (2010) under the direction of professor abdol. r. hajipour. she began her ph.d. studies at university of guilan under supervision of professor farhad shirini from 2011...

A sterilised, female calico domestic cat, weighing 4 kg, was presented to a private practitioner for examination. Her mother had produced her first and only litter, comprising 6 kittens, at the age of 3 years. Apart from this particular cat, all of the kittens appeared to be normal. The cat presented appeared to have no problems apart from the structure of her right forelimb, which she did not ...

BACKGROUND Osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS) primarily occurs after rapid correction of severe hyponatremia. There are no proven effective therapies for ODS, but we describe the first case showing the successful treatment of central pontine myelinolysis (CPM) by plasma exchange, which occurred after rapid development of hypernatremia from intravenous sodium bicarbonate therapy. CASE PRESEN...

case presentation in november 2015, a 31-year-old pregnant woman at gestational week 12 of her second pregnancy was referred to our private clinic in rasht, iran. she had microscopic hematuria; a mass measuring 39 × 33 mm in the upper portion of her right kidney was was detected by ultrasonography. conclusions a percutaneous renal mass biopsy was used, instead of nephrectomy, to diagnose the ma...

When a mountaineer is ascending one of the great peaks of the Himalayas she knows that an entirely new vista awaits her at the top, whose ramifications will be known only after she gets there. Her immediate goal though, is to tackle the obstacles on the way up, and reach the peak. In a similar vein, one of the immediate goals of contemporary theoretical physics is to build a quantum, unified de...

A 58 year old woman was diagnosed as having polymyalgia rheumatica in 2000. Her blood pressure was slightly raised (140/74 mm Hg). Her past medical history was otherwise unremarkable and her condition stable. She takes 5 mg prednisolone a day, up to six over the counter Panadol tablets (GlaxoSmithKline, Brentwood; 500 mg paracetamol) a day, and Calcichew D3 Forte (Shire, Basingstoke; 1.25 g cal...

a uterocutaneous fistula is a rare clinical presentation that occurs following cesarean section and other pelvic operations. there are only a few reports discussing the treatments. we describe a patient with successful surgical management and review the literature. a 25-year-old woman referred to our department 13 months after her first cesarean section. she had a history of an abdominal mass a...