DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Secondary pathology
Periventricular leukomalacia
Periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) is a form of white-matter brain injury, characterized by the necrosis (more often coagulation) of white matter near the lateral cerebral ventricles. It can affect newborns and (less commonly) fetuses; premature infants are at the greatest risk of the disorder. Affected individuals generally exhibit motor control problems or other developmental delays, and they often develop cerebral palsy or epilepsy later in life. This pathology of the brain was described under various names ("encephalodystrophy", "ischemic necrosis," "periventricular infarction", "coagulation necrosis", "leukomalacia," "softening of the brain," "infarct periventricular white matter", "necrosis of white matter", "diffuse symmetrical periventricular leukoencephalopathy”), and more often by German scientists, but the worldwide dissemination was the term «periventricular leukomalacia», introduced in 1962 B...
Secondary pathology - List of case studies
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
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symptomatology reappeared as at the beginning of the pathology. Therefore, in May a Lyrica therapy 75mg at a dosage of 1 tablet ... the right hand are caused by cervical root compression secondary to herniated discs. The patient’s facial pain ...
- 3-year old boy with Medulloblastoma
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in any way with the stem cells in this neurooncological pathology? Could stem cells be an alternative therapy providing ... loss, some risk of infertility . There is some risk of secondary leukemia, but that risk is extremely small. The bigger problems ...
- Severe right coronary artery stenosis
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patient previously reported on exacerbation of angina secondary to emotional stress and accelerated hypertensive events, I would ... first to establish a precise diagnosis and define the pathology during the course of a coronary angiography and only then to ...
- Metastatic, Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
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mass was seen in LLL, centred in the lungs, possibly secondary spread: masses found in upper abdomen. Background: • ... the right. These findings increase our suspicion of pathology within the skeleton (possibly originating from the bone marrow), ...
- Anterior chamber cleavage syndrome in right eye in a 2 months old infant
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are the leading centers, for treating this ophthalmologic pathology? 3) What treatment do you suggest? In particular, is surgery ... in patients with A-R syndrome is the development of secondary glaucoma . In most cases, those who develop glaucoma do so in ...
- Metastatic non small cell lung Cancer
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ribs. Chest CT showed a mass in LLL, lung foci, suspected secondary spread and masses in upper abdomen. CT guided biopsy from right lung ... ribs bilaterally and in the limbs- suspected for secondary pathology. The advisory oncologist recommended chemotherapy treatment and ...
- Melanoma with metastases
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Doppler that confirms a " situation likely secondary to a serious lymphostasis , provoked by inteventions in ... not possible to exclude components related to the primary pathology." Therefore a cycle of manual lymphatic drainage ...
- Prostatic Adenocarcinoma
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the C3 and D1, initially hypothesised as associated with secondary localisations. - Lumbosacral MRI: multiple signal alteration to the ... from any disturbances associated with the prostate pathology. Upon objective examination, the patient weighs 70 kg. The abdomen is ...
- Multinodular Thyroid Goiter with normal functioning
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It seems that there is no tracheal narrowing secondary to the thyroid enlargement on the attached X-ray. ... thyroidectomy and remove all suspicious nodules for pathology (In this case a left total lobectomy and a right subtotal lobectomy ...
- Chronic Glomerulonephritis with immune complexes
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42-year-old female with chronic renal insufficiency secondary to immune complex mediated glomerulonephropathy, hypertension, Type 2 ... Pathology report Summary– January 2009 Material ...