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An eight-year-old girl was admitted for prolonged fever and general fatigue. Bilateral reddened and swollen tonsils covered with white fur and increased numbers of atypical lymphocytes in blood led to a diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis (IM) due to primary Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection,
Fumaric acid preparations are used as longterm and effective treatment of psoriasis. Apart from gastrointestinal, dermatological and hematological side-effects, transient renal damage was observed during treatment with fumaric acid. The case of a 38 year old woman who was treated with fumaric acid
One of the longest-running controversies in medicine concerns the aims of diabetes treatment. The question debated for 80 years has been whether the clinician should just relieve symptoms, or try to achieve the much more difficult objective of near-physiological normality as measured by an absence
OBJECTIVE
to investigate clinical, laboratory test, and bone mineral density abnormalities in 19 adults with phosphate diabetes of unknown etiology diagnosed in a rheumatology department on the basis of a maximal rate for tubular reabsorption of phosphate (TmPO4/GFR) of 0.77 or less.
RESULTS
there
The case is described of a 14-year-old boy who presented with a 6-week history of fatigue, severe weight loss (15 kg) and glycosuria. On admission he was in non-oliguric renal failure (serum creatinine 1360 mumol/l) with moderate proteinuria (1.3 g per 24 h), glycosuria (9.5 g per 24 h) and
Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis (ATIN) is a rare renal disorder in children. Patients usually present non-specific symptoms and signs so that the diagnosis of ATIN is often delayed. The disease may be infection- or drug-induced or it may occur without a known cause. Early recognition and