Letter to the Editor
Memantine-induced Decompensation in a Patient with Lewy Body Dementia
Lewy body dementia is a neurodegenerative disease of the elderly characterised by cognitive impairment coupled with mild parkinsonism, visual hallucinations and a fluctuating mental...
Torsion of the Gallbladder: A Rare Entity
Torsion of the gallbladder remains a rare entity difficult to diagnose preoperatively. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case in the literature...
Acetaminophen Overdose and N-acetylcysteine Therapy
I read with interest the case report by Sule et al,1 published in the February 2006 issue of the journal. They reported a case...
Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia Successfully Controlled by Argon Plasma Coagulation
Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) is an uncommon but important cause of chronic gastrointestinal blood loss and iron deficiency anaemia. The syndrome was first...
Paradoxical Orthodeoxia in a Patient with a Large Aortic Aneurysm
We refer to the case report by Soon et al titled Paradoxical Orthodeoxia in a Patient with a Large Aortic Aneurysm in Ann Acad...
Improving Teaching Through Microteaching
Health professionals acknowledge that their education does not prepare them for teaching. However, society’s increasingly high expectations on health professionals demand that they be...
Cefepime-induced Encephalopathy with Triphasic Waves in Three Asian Patients
Cefasporins such as cefepime are beta-lactam antibiotics with a broad antimicrobial spectrum. They are commonly used as first-line agents in the treatment of many...
A Pregnant Lady With Aggressive Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is known to occur in up to 1 in 3000 pregnancies and a few cases could be expected each year in our...
Thalidomide-associated Arterial Thrombosis: Two Case Reports
Thalidomide was used as a sedative in the 1950s and was withdrawn from the market after initial reports of teratogenicity in 1961. In 1998,...
Leptospirosis Presenting as Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis and Pancreatitis
Acute cholecystitis in the absence of any detectable stones is known as acute acalculous cholecystitis (AAC) and has been often associated with severe illness...