She was there for her flu shot. She was planning on going on a cruise. But of course we also spoke about her Cushing disease, about the side effects and the treatment. It was a memorable encounter, but I hadn’t realized what an impression Mrs B. had made until I encountered a problem-based learning case in the endocrinology portion of my second-year curriculum. While completing the case, I real...

Case presentation: A 44-year-old woman is referred for worsening chest pain since 2007, with abnormal stress testing in May 2008, followed by coronary angiography in June 2008. She had several prior hospitalizations to evaluate possible myocardial infarction, and 1 with an elevated troponin level in 2001. She has a history of breast cancer in 2007. She currently reports daily exertional subster...

To attract females during courtship, Drosophila melanogaster males sing songs with motifs of varying temporal structure. In this issue of Neuron, Clemens et al. (2015) identify a song feature indicating male fitness and propose a neural mechanism for how it may be extracted from the auditory signal by female flies.

laleh samavi was born in rasht,iran in 1979. she received her b.sc. (2002) and m.sc. (2005) degrees from the university of guilan. presently she is working towards her ph.d. degree under supervision of prof. farhad shirini at the university of guilan. her research is focused on the development of synthetic rout of catalysts and their applications in organic chemistry.

when i first met this nice lady, i was in an evening work shift of ccu. this 69 years-old woman had been referred recently to our ward. she had a pale and puffy face. she suffered from chf. she had a normal breathing, but her ankle was swollen.   we stabilized her condition easily but, it was just the first step in her treatment way. prevention of recurrence of heart attack was our goal. every ...

Benzalkonium chloride (BAC) is a caustic agent which is used in farms, homes and hospitals for cleaning skin and wounds as an antiseptic solution. It may lead to digestive system injuries in case of ingestion. We present a two-days-old newborn case which was carried to the emergency unit with complaints of poor breastfeeding, uneasiness and crying for 4-6 hours. Her mom confessed that she had g...

BACKGROUND Prepancreatic postduodenal portal vein is extremely rare, with only 13 cases reported in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION A 55-year-old white woman presented to our emergency department with abdominal pain. She underwent a computed tomography of her abdomen, which showed a portal vein coursing anterolaterally to her pancreas and posteriorly to the first portion of her duodenum, co...

A 21-year-old female with a history of right nephrectomy due to trauma presented several years multi-drug resistant hypertension. Her workup included negative autoimmune and vasculitidies panels urine catecholamines. Computed tomography imaging showed an acute hairpin turn her left renal artery. Intra-operatively, the artery demonstrated kinking exhalation. She underwent excision diseased porti...

Case Report A married woman, 52 years old, first seen September 1, 1948, was complaining of epiphora and a slight irritation of both eyes, particularly the right, with some photophobia. The illness was of some three months' duration, though she said she had had recurrent attacks of " sore eyes " for many years. The present attack seemed to have started after a long traip journey. The visual acu...