erythema/infarction

METHODS We report a series of 28 consecutive patients with erythema migrans (EM) who underwent skin biopsies for culture of Borrelia burgdorferi. Culture results, Lyme serologic findings, and clinical features in patients with only primary EM are compared with those in patients with secondary

A 12-year-old boy with a history of recurrent aphthous ulcerations and cutaneous erythema nodosum suddenly experienced chest pain. Together, the symptoms and a positive skin pathergy test established a diagnosis of Behçet's disease. An acute extensive anterior myocardial infarction was based on

Diabetic muscular infarct (DMI) is a rare condition, which begins with acute onset of extremity pain and swelling. Patients usually have long-standing disease and poorly controlled diabetes mellitus (DM). Thigh muscle group is the most commonly involved side, while lower leg involvement is rare. We

Lucio phenomenon (LP) or erythema necroticans is a relatively rare, peculiar reaction pattern occurring in untreated lepromatous (LL) or borderline lepromatous (BL) leprosy cases. A 38-year-old male, a cook by occupation, was referred to the dermatology clinic from otolaryngology department with

A 54 year old man experienced excruciating left retro-orbital pain with lacrimation and redness of the eye representative of a cluster headache attack. This was followed by left hemiparesis with plegia of the lower limb and left Horner's syndrome. Five days later the hemiparesis recovered while the

A 36-year-old man visited our hospital because of blurred vision and redness of the conjunctiva. Slit-lamp examination showed panuveitis. Two days later, he suddenly experienced dizziness, speech disturbance, paralysis of his right extremities, and gait disturbances. Neurological examinations

Kounis syndrome has been known as allergenic angina and/or allergenic myocardial infarction following an allergic reaction. Probable allergic insults usually include drugs, latex, and food. Although ceftriaxone administration has been associated with various allergic reactions such as urticaria,

A 61-year-old man was referred to us with linear and indurated erythemas and severe tenderness on the scalp, neck, tongue, and scrotum which had gradually spread over the previous six months. He had a history of an intracranial bypass operation for cerebral infarction. Histologic and ultrastructural

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a rare cause of acute myocardial infarction and occurs predominantly in young women without conventional cardiovascular risk factors. Emotional or physical stress and hormone imbalance are associated with the occurrence of SCAD, but the precise

We report a 72-yr-old female hospitalized for an upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage who developed emphysematous gastritis and gas in the portal vein. Endoscopy of the stomach revealed severe circumferential erythema, erosions, exudates, and friability of irregularly thickened proximal gastric folds.

A 14-year-old boy, admitted with intractable chest pain, was found to have an enlarged heart and calcification in the apical region, with electrocardiographic features of massive inferolateral myocardial infarction. Left ventricular angiography revealed a large left ventricular aneurysm. He died

Sickle cell disease is a hemoglobinopathy that results in paroxysmal arteriolar occlusion and tissue infarction that can manifest in a plurality of tissues. Rarely, these infarcted crises manifest in the bony orbit. Orbital infarction usually presents with acute onset of periorbital tenderness,

Centipede bites have been reported to cause localized and/or systemic symptoms including local pain, erythema and edema, nausea and vomiting, palpitations, headache, lymphadenopathy, and rhabdomyolysis. However, acute myocardial infarction due to centipede envenomation is reported in only three

The clinical features of long bone infarction in patients with sickle cell disease have not been well defined, and differentiation of bone infarct from osteomyelitis has accordingly been difficult. We reviewed records from 192 children with sickle hemoglobinopathies and identified 41 episodes of