bola/inflammation

A 9-year-old girl presented with lethargy, malaise & chest pain. Her blood counts confirmed hypochromic microcytic anemia. She was prescribed iron supplements. Subsequently she was admitted to our hospital with fever and increasing chest and abdominal pain. She was treated with antibiotics, and a

A 7-year-old girl presented with chronic right periocular pain worst in abduction, edema, and proptosis with radiographic evidence of right medial rectus myositis. After a negative workup, she was diagnosed and treated for idiopathic orbital inflammation (IOI) with a brisk response to oral steroids.

A 17-year-old girl presented to her primary care physician with a history of unintentional weight loss and vague sensory symptoms, including tingling of her lower extremities. She had a nonrevealing neurology workup and a largely normal rheumatology workup apart from mild elevation in her

A 75-year old-female was referred with chest pain. She was fully investigated and it was felt that her symptoms were non-cardiac. Four months later, she was seen in gastroenterology outpatients with bloody diarrhoea and abdominal pain. Colonoscopy demonstrated inflammation up to the splenic flexure

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is a rare entity of neoplastic origin. It usually occurs in children and adolescents and most commonly involves pulmonary and gastrointestinal sites. Here, the authors present two cases; one is the nine months old boy with a subcutaneous IMT in the left

BACKGROUND Colonic diaphragm disease is an uncommon condition usually associated with the long-term use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. METHODS A 48-year-old woman presented as an emergency patient with abdominal pain and vomiting. Past medical history included inflammatory bowel disease

We report a case of inflammatory pseudotumour (IP) and pseudomembranous cystitis (PC) in a young female patient who presented with gross haematuria and clot retention. Cystoscopy revealed a single glistening, polypoid growth of approximately 3 cm × 2.5 cm at the left lateral wall and the trigone of

At 37 years of age, the patient initially presented with symptoms of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) during her 1st pregnancy. She was treated with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg), and showed favorable recovery, becoming almost asymptomatic by the age of 38. At 39

COVID-19 is the infectious disease caused by a recently discovered SARS-CoV-2. Following an initial outbreak in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, the virus has spread globally culminating in the WHO declaring a pandemic on 11 March 2020. We present the case of a patient with an initial presentation of

A 54-year-old woman, who was treated with chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, developed dysesthesia in her hands and feet at the age of 50 in 2003. The following year she underwent hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. In 2005, she was diagnosed with chronic graft versus host disease

BACKGROUND We report a rare case of syphilitic intraocular inflammation with occlusive retinal vasculitis treated with intravitreal injection of bevacizumab (IVB) in addition to conventional therapy for syphilis. METHODS A 24-year-old woman who complained floaters in both her eyes showed occlusive

A 30-year-old female presented with a 3-month history of erosive stomatitis and bullous lesions, along with recurrent episodes of abdominal pain. She was found to have a retroperitoneal lump in left lumbar region. Skin biopsy revealed bullous disorder. CT guided biopsy of the retroperitoneal mass

Necrotising fasciitis is a life-threatening infection of the superficial muscle fascia and the adjacent deep layer of subcutaneous tissue that is often fatal. A 46-year-old woman was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) three days after an uncomplicated endoscopic polypectomy because of

A 32-year-old woman was diagnosed HIV positive with disseminated cryptococcal infection in May 2006. Her initial CD4 was 7 cells/µL and she had a right supraclavicular nodal mass, which was biopsied and shown to be consistent with cryptococcal lymphadenitis. She was treated for disseminated