Unbounded Medicine

A woman came to the office because of sharp epigastric pain. On physical examination nothing was wrong except of epigastric pain. An endoscopy was performed and reported as normal. An Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Barium Examination was ordered and we found a cascade stomach, which is a rare finding. We exlude other causes of abdominal pain […]

The best of this week on the Medical Blogsphere is up at HealthyConcers by Elisa.
This week Grand Rounds theme is called “Carnival of the Caregivers”
Take a look at her site, it worths it.
Regards,
Jon Mikel Iñarritu, M.D.

Purpura fulminans
It is a severe condition due to meningococcal sepsis, it occurs in 15 to 25% of those patients with meningococcemia.
The clinical picture is as follows: acute onset of cutaneous hemorrhage and necrosis secondary to vascular thrombosis and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Often there is pain followed by petechiae. Ecchymoses develop and evolve into painful […]

BEWARE! Gory Images
Another case of firecracker associated injuries here.

For those who don’t believe in that this kind of accidents really happen, this is a story who GruntDoc wrote, with the same outcome.
The pictures are self explaining.

GruntDoc says: “The devastation on this X-ray is nothing compared to the actual flesh-and-blood injury. A life changed in a […]

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Via Diabetes Care Journal.
A cohort study (made by Yaggi, Araujo and McKinlay) who enroll men from 1987-9 to 2004 showed the next results:
Men reporting short sleep duration (< =5 and 6 h of sleep per night) were twice as likely to develop diabetes, and men reporting long sleep duration (>8 h of sleep per […]

Yesterday at Health-Hack.com they made a list of six of the most evident symptoms of some serious illness, via WebMD:
From WebMD:
1. If you have unexplained weight loss and/or loss of appetite, you may have a serious underlying medical illness.
2. Slurred speech, paralysis, weakness, tingling, burning pains, numbness, […]