muscle weakness/吐き気

BACKGROUND Gitelman syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that presents in early adulthood with fatigue, muscle cramps and electrolyte abnormalities. METHODS A 17-year-old African-American woman presented at 17 weeks of pregnancy with nausea, emesis, profound lower extremity proximal

METHODS We report a 79-year-old patient with post-polio syndrome (PPS). In the course of this disease, recurrent upper abdominal pain and a therapy-resistant nausea developed without vomiting. In addition, the patient was limited by the combination of muscular weakness, obesity, dietary-treated

A 17-year-old boy who had mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with focal deficiency of cytochrome c oxidase (CCO) activity is described. He experienced 3 episodes of muscle weakness, fatigability, nausea, vomiting and concomitant increase of serum creatine kinase activity, at the age of 13, 15 and 17

We have estimated the effect of omitting antagonism of neuromuscular block on postoperative nausea and vomiting. A systematic search (MEDLINE, EMBASE, Biological Abstracts, Cochrane library, reference lists and hand searching; no language restriction, up to March 1998) was performed for relevant

BACKGROUND Organophosphate (OP) poisoning is the most common cause (27.64%) and has the highest death rate (13.88%) of poisoning in Bangladesh. It leads to three main syndromes notably acute cholinergic syndrome, intermediate syndrome, and delayed polyneuropathy. It rarely causes cardiac arrhythmia,

We present the case of an 8‑year-old female child with suspected peroxisomal disorder requiring general anesthesia for adenotomy, paracentesis and brainstem-evoked response audiometry. Peroxisomes are small intracellular organelles that catalyse key metabolic reactions. Peroxisomal disorders are a

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute peripheral neuropathy that develops as a result of post-infectious immune-mediated nerve injury. It can be classified into classic and variant GBS. Acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN) is a subtype of GBS with the key clinical features of pure motor

OBJECTIVE To investigate the differences and similarities of sociodemographic properties and pain conditions of patients seen at our institution compared to other studies conducted throughout the world. METHODS Our study included the results of 772 patients who applied to our polyclinic between 1

The benefits of epidural analgesia are well known, but it is not well understood which types of urologic surgery benefit most from epidural analgesia. In this study, the effects and side effects of prolonged epidural analgesia are prospectively examined and analysed on 172 adult patients in three

The alpha-adrenergic agonists have been demonstrated to have synergistic effects with opioids and local anesthetics in animal research. The present study was performed to determine whether the addition of adrenaline improves the analgesic effects of an epidural infusion of a combination of fentanyl

Pivalate-generating prodrugs have been suggested to cause clinically significant hypocarnitinaemia. Tenofovir dipivoxil, a novel ester prodrug of tenofovir, can be used for treatment for hepatitis B and HIV infection and it was necessary to evaluate the effect of its treatment on carnitine

This study was aimed at assessing prevalence, circumstance, and management of acute pesticide poisoning in hospitals in Kampala. It was a retrospective cross-sectional study that involved reviewing of 739 poisoning patient records from 5 hospitals in Kampala. Of the 739 patients, 212 were due to

We experienced a patient of CIDP who was twice complicated with aseptic meningitis following high-dose intravenous gammaglobulin therapy. The patient was a 29-year-old woman who first developed gait disturbance in September 1998. Neurological examination revealed muscle weakness and sensory

The symptoms include, by ascending order of severity: nightmares and insomnia, nausea and vomiting, muscular weakness or tremor, postural hypotension, hyperthermia, muscle twitching, convulsions, confusional state or psychosis. Prominent features are the late onset of these symptoms, several days