A 62-year-old patient referred to coronary angiotomography due to ischemic changes detected in an exercise stress test. The patient reported hypertension and dyslipidemia, both controlled with drug treatment and regular physical exercise. She didn’t have any cardiovascular complaints and her physical examination was unremarkable. Coronary angiotomography showed common origin of coronary arteries through a short common trunk, emerging from the right Valsalva sinus and trifurcating into right coronary artery (RCA), circumflex artery (CxA) and anterior descending artery (ADA). The RCA […]

Varicella is a viral and usually benign disease, which commonly affects children. This disease main complication is bacterial superinfection of the skin. Ibuprofen administration, although not contraindicated, seems to increase risk of severe skin complications. – We report a case of a 21-month-old child with no family or personal relevant medical history who developed varicella with high fever since the second day of the disease. Paracetamol 15mg/kg every 8 hours and ibuprofen 7mg/kg every 8 hours were administered to the […]

An eight-year-old girl presented with complaints of intermittent discharge from a pit situated in the medial surface of right pinna since early childhood. The discharge was scanty, foul-smelling and mucoid, and occasionally purulent. The frequency had increased in the last year with development of a swelling just below the pit that often got inflamed and caused pain. On examination, an opening was noted just above the lobule leading to a swelling that reached the post-auricular sulcus (). An area of […]

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