Medical Must-See: Menstrual cup, up and away
Menstrual cups have become an increasingly popular, environmentally friendly and cost-effective option, but there has been many a slip ‘twixt a cup and a urinary…
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Solving a weightlifter’s renal riddle in a case of misdiagnosed CKD
Simon, aged 56, takes pride in his good health. He works long hours as a bank manager, but also prioritises maintaining a healthy lifestyle and…
Medical Must-See: Slip an extra shrimp on the dystrophy
Most Aussies say ‘prawn’ not ‘shrimp’, but they still recognise shrimp’s meaning in the seafood context — how many will recognise the context of ‘shrimp…
Medical Must-See: Doctors get the sac from child’s internal iliac artery
Iranian surgeons have removed a 4cm x 4cm aneurysmal sac after diagnosing an idiopathic left internal iliac artery aneurysm in an 11-year-old boy. The previously…
Constipation unmasks an unexpected diagnosis
Naomi, an 81-year-old woman, presents to her local ED with intermittent cramping abdominal pain and a paucity of bowel motions. Her bowels have not opened…
Medical Must-See: Toddler’s tiny injury leads to rare fungal infection
A minor eye wound turned into a major infection for a 15-month-old girl from Pakistan, who developed potentially lethal mucormycosis despite nothing to suggest she was…
Transplant a promising cure for COVID-19 lung injury: first Australian case
Australia’s first patient to undergo a lung transplant to treat an irreversible COVID-19-related lung injury has had a successful outcome, his doctors say. After spending…
What happens when a patient brings you a 40cm worm in a jar?
ED doctors faced a curly one when a Melbourne woman retrieved 40cm of worm from her stool, stored it in a jar and presented it…
Medical Must-See: IUD travels ovary the hills and far away
A LARC that disembarked was the surprise culprit behind this woman’s abdominal pain. The 29-year-old presented to Punjab Rangers Teaching Hospital in Pakistan with moderate…
Medical Must-See: Tooth pain and a golf ball–sized aneurysm
A 70-year-old’s tooth pain has led US doctors to discover a giant brain aneurysm behind the patient’s eye. After a first attempt at surgical repair…
