background menopause is a unique event in a woman’s life which has many symptoms. frequency and severity of these symptoms vary, and they are based on the woman’s epidemiological characteristics. objectives the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and severity of menopausal symptoms and related factors among women, 40-60 years in kashan, iran. patients and methods in this cross-sec...

Menopause is a period of cessation menstruation caused by decrease in the hormones estrogen and progesterone causing several symptoms that occur such as night sweats, insomnia, hot flashes, anxiety, fatigue, depression, memory disorders (senility), urogenital symptoms, urinary (dysuria), painful intercourse (dyspareunia). This causes discomfort climacteric women, to reduce discomfort, processed...

The peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified (PTCL, NOS) belongs to a heterogeneous class of aggressive neoplasms. Although several morphologic subtypes of this tumor have been described, no particular genetic, immunological, or distinct clinical features define this disease. Patients can experience night sweats, fever, lymphadenopathy, weight loss, splenomegaly, and/or skin changes....

Case Presentation We report on a 27 year old albino woman, who was admitted on the 20th May 2010 to our facility at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital with a left-sided pre-auricular ulcerating mass suspected to be originating from the skin. The mass developed three weeks prior to admission and was progressively growing in size. Three days before admission she also noticed ulceration and discharg...

We describe the case of a 55-year-old man with a biological prosthetic aortic valve who suffered from epigastrium and right hypochondrium pain associated with intermittent night sweats. Liver biopsy showed infectious hepatitis pattern without pathognomonic features. Coxiella burnetii serology was suggestive of chronic Q fever, and modified Duke's criteria for endocarditis were also fulfilled. T...

A 46-year-old man with a 15 pack-year smoking history was referred to the pulmonary clinic with an incidental finding of a left pleural-based lung mass on chest X-ray (figure 1). The patient denied any respiratory symptoms, loss of weight or night sweats. He reported to have worked in a shipyard with a history of prolonged exposure to asbestos. Physical examination revealed no evidence of respi...

We present the case of a patient with pulmonary cavitation of extremely unusual aetiology, which presented a significant diagnostic challenge despite multidisciplinary involvement. A 54-year-old male presented with a 6-week history of haemoptysis associated with fatigue, night sweats and dyspnoea. His past medical history was significant for coronary artery stenting (treated with aspirin). Ther...

Lymphoma is the third common malignancy of childhood, presenting with rapidly or slowly growing mass, systemic B symptoms (fever, night sweats and weight loss), hepatomegaly and splenomegaly. Here, we report an eight year old male child who presented with fever, dyspnoea and weight loss of three kilograms over the last month; had right pleural effusion and was investigated for both infectious a...

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that develops from the B cells of the lymphatic system. The first symptom of DLBCL is usually painless swelling of lymph nodes in the neck, armpit, groin or abdomen. Patients may also experience fevers, night sweats and unexplained weight loss. Here, we reported a 73-year-old man with DLBCL. Specifically, init...

A 42-year-old male presented in June of 2011 with nocturnal fevers, night sweats, an 8-kg weight loss, and a cutaneous right chest wall mass. In March of 2013, a computed tomographic scan of the thorax showed a 54 × 18 × 26-mm right lower lobe mass with peripheral calcifications, and in May of 2013, he was admitted for a segmental lobectomy, in which histologic examination of the pulmonary tiss...