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By Hina Qazi, M. A. Rehman Siddiqui
ABSTRACT Unilateral retinal pigment epithelium dysgenesis (URPED) is one of the exceedingly rare conditions of the retina. Herein, the first case of URPED in Pakistan is reported in a 33-year male who presented with a uniocular decrease in vision in his right eye. His general, ophthalmic, and family...
By Muhammad Imran, Saba Choudhry, Ali Raza Arshad, Najam ul Haq, Muhammad Taimur
ABSTRACT Presence of foreign bodies in gallbladder are a rare occurrence. Most of these are ingested accidentally and passed through the gastrointestinal tract without causing any harm. However, a few complications are noted in the literature. The authors report a case of 36-year female who underwen...
By Taqdees Khaliq, Shoaib Amin, Sadaf Nasir, Sarah Azam Shah
ABSTRACT Benign/idiopathic intracranial hypertension is a diagnosis of exclusion in patients presenting with headache, particularly in young female patients. It is one of the rarest neuropsychiatric manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus and only a few cases are described in the literature w...
By Saad Saleem, Taqdees Khaliq, Junaid Ismail, Benish Adil
ABSTRACT Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease with multiorgan involvement. Though endemic in South Asia including Pakistan, its diagnosis is often delayed because of unawareness. Herein, a case is presented of a male patient who was previously admitted and treated for culture-negative infective endocar...
By Kanwal Rehana, Muhammad Waleed, Nadia Khattak
ABSTRACT Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) are very rare findings in patients undergoing CT coronary angiography (CTCA) for suspected ischemic heart disease (IHD). CAAs involving more than one coronary artery are even rarer. We, herein, report a case of incidental finding of giant CAAs (GCAAs) that a...
By Hamza Iqbal
ABSTRACT Meckel's diverticulum is the most common congenital anomaly of the gastrointestinal tract. It is relatively rare and tends to be benign in adulthood. Complications may lead to symptoms of intestinal obstruction, ulceration, bleeding, or perforation. Here, a case of acute intestinal obst...
By Muhammad Saad Aziz, Khawaja Khalid Shoaib, Ahsan Mehmood, Muhammad Awaid Abid
ABSTRACT This article presents a case of Urrets-Zavalia Syndrome (UZS), a rare complication following an uneventful penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) carried out for macular corneal dystrophy (MCD) in a 23-year-old patient in a tertiary care hospital. The patient exhibited peripheral anterior synechiae...
By Cem Yagmur Ozdemir, Mariam Chkhikvadze, Nayif Cicekli, Dagistan Tolga Arioz, Gulsum Seyma Yalcin
ABSTRACT Sertoli-Leydig cell tumours (SLCT) are rare sex cord-stromal neoplasms accounting for less than 0.2% of all ovarian tumours. We report a case of a patient who was operated due to a solid-cystic mass in the lower abdomen and the pathology report confirmed retiform variant of SLCT. A 24-...
By Xiaoqiang Liu, Boming Xu, Yilin Zeng, Peizhong Chen, Yubin Wang
ABSTRACT We present a case of a 43-year female patient with hyperthyroidism who developed severe jaundice. Although liver dysfunction is frequent in hyperthyroidism, jaundice is typically mild. In this case, the patient presented with severe jaundice, which could be a consequence of cholestasis indu...
By Caglar Turk, Umut Tan Sevgi, Sumeyye Ekmekci, Mahmut Camlar
ABSTRACT Simultaneous detection of two different primary brain tumours such as medulloblastoma and ependymoma, which develop from different types of cells of the central nervous system, in a single patient is a highly rare occurrence. In this article, we present a case in which these two primary bra...
By Durriya Raza, Umair Aftab Baig
ABSTRACT General anaesthesia administration in paediatric patients is a challenging task to begin with. It can be further complicated when a patient presents with large facial tumour distorting the anatomical structures, reducing mouth opening (two-finger breadth), and a Mallampati score of 4. We re...
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