Abstract Background Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is an uncommon and lethal side effect of neuroleptics. The clinical expression this diverse. Even with criteria diagnosis, it hard to recognize easily. We report a series 25 cases NMS among patients hospitalized in psychiatric service at Oujda for 5 years. have described the characteristics these patients, treatments received, management,...

Malignant hypertension (MH) is a state which can rapidly progress to multi-organ failure. It develop in the course of both primary and secondary type hypertension. In our study, we present case 36-year-old man diagnosed with renal failure MH complicated retinopathy. As nature condition was suspected extensive diagnostics has been conducted. spite excluding plenty pathologies, underlying cause r...

In this report, we describe a case of healthy 67-year-old female with rapidly growing red nodules on the scalp that demonstrated histological features benign epithelioid hemangioma multiple instances yet behaved clinically as malignant angiosarcoma. Despite rounds resection, radiation, and chemotherapy, patient ultimately succumbed from her widely metastatic disease. Diagnosis vascular neoplasm...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether tumors meeting the criteria of Hendrickson and Kempson for uterine smooth-muscle tumors of uncertain malignant potential have a natural history different from those of leiomyomas and leiomyosarcomas. METHODS Tumors with five to ten mitoses per ten high-power fields and with mild or moderate cellular atypia were classified as tumors of uncertain malignant potenti...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the natural history of melanoma is different in patients who test positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) compared with matched control subjects. DESIGN Retrospective cohort analysis. SETTING Ambulatory care at 2 university-affiliated medical centers. PATIENTS Each HIV-positive melanoma patient (n = 17) was randomly matched with 2 HIV-negative patien...

OBJECTIVE To monitor progression of "benign hallucinations" in Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS We searched our data repository for subjects with PD with 3 sets of neuropsychological testing during 3 years and Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale thought disorder scores taken at 4- to 12-month intervals during this period. We found 48 patients with benign hallucinations, defined as a thoug...

PURPOSE To call attention to a malignant course of ocular ischemic syndrome in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA). METHODS/PATIENT: A 84-year-old woman developed severe headache for about 3 (1/2) months prior to myocardial infarction and visual disturbances. RESULTS An anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) in the right eye with a distinct reduction in visual acuity was found. The re...