Issue 3 Articles

The incidence of end-stage kidney disease, in the Caucasian population, is 275 cases per 1 million people per year. Currently, nearly 10% of patients under renal replacement therapy are under peritoneal dialysis. The catheter’s dysfunction is generally caused by its displacement, obstruction by omentum, small bowel, fibrin deposits, and exceptionally, by the cecal appendix or […]

A 39 year old right handed lady presented with a 3 month history of worsening chin and bilateral leg tremors. Secondary to this she had multiple falls. This was on a background of 18 months of intentional hand tremors. On examination she had marked rigidity bilaterally, intention tremor and an unsteady gait. Kayser-Fleischer rings were

Subphrenic abscess is an uncommon complication of acute appendicitis since the advent of surgical treatment [1,2]. We report a case of a 47-year-old female, without any significant medical history, who had been diagnosed with acute appendicitis but refused surgical treatment. Three weeks later, she went to the Emergency Room with fever, abdominal pain and respiratory

55-year-old female, phototype III, with no history of melanoma, with an erythematous papule, eroded on the surface, well limited, involving the palm skin of the right hand (Figure 1). The lesion had persisted for 2 months despite the use of topicals and salicylic acid ointments. The patient was immunocompetent, with no history of arsenic ingestion,