Allergy/Immunology
- Antibody-mediated autoimmune encephalitis: A practical approach
Symptoms may include subacute, progressive neuropsychiatric symptoms with associated cognitive dysfunction, movement disorders, and autoimmune seizures.
- Heightening awareness of blistering disorders
The spectrum of associated disorders ranges from annoying to life-threatening.
- New bullous lesions in a 72-year-old woman
Her history included psoriasis, chronic lower-extremity edema, and hypertension.
- Vaccinating the unvaccinated adult
Numbers of unvaccinated children are on the rise, but when they grow up, some of them come in for care.
- Awareness can prompt the search for clinical zebras
When do we look hard for uncommon causes of common symptoms?
- A cutaneous clue to HIV infection
A retired trucker presented with fever, cough, dyspnea, and a rash on his forehead.
- Oral immunotherapy: The answer to peanut allergy?
Gradually increasing doses of the allergen induces tolerance.
- Cryptosporidiosis in an immunosuppressed patient with persistent diarrhea
A 29-year-old lung transplant recipient presents with diarrhea lasting 1 month.