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…
Tag: Autoimmune
A GP guide to urticaria in children
Need to know: Urticaria is a condition characterised by the presence of wheals, angioedema, or both. × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling and empowering the medical…
Spot Dx — Puzzling mouth pain gets worse
Heather is a 52-year-old executive with a six-month history of pain when eating, which has become much worse over the past two weeks. Test your…
‘Insidious onset of symptoms’: Holiday sandfly bite triggers rare parasitic disease two years later
An Australian man’s sandfly bite in Greece two years previously triggered a diagnostic dilemma culminating in a rare diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis, Melbourne doctors report.…
Spot Dx — Be first out the gait to diagnose this calf pain
Edie, an eight-year-old girl, is seen via telehealth consultation with 24 hours of bilateral calf pain and disturbed gait, worsening despite regular paracetamol administration. Test…
Immunological reset? CAR T-cell therapy shows promise for autoimmune diseases
Novel blood cancer immunotherapies could induce an “immunological reset” in patients with severe and treatment-refractory autoimmune disease, German rheumatologists report. In a case series of…
Spot Dx — What is behind these blisters?
Nisha is a 27-year-old office worker who presents with painful lower-limb blisters that have been present for the past four days. Test your clinical know-how…
Spot Dx — What’s behind this eight-year-old rash?
A 68-year-old Caucasian woman presents with an eight-year history of an erythematous, pruritic and scaly rash over her central chest, upper back and forearms. Test…
90 blood transfusions fail to avert autoimmune anaemia in rare case
Splenectomy proved crucial to stabilising a 60-year-old man with a severe form of autoimmune anaemia after all other treatments — including 90 blood transfusions —…
A GP guide to managing vitiligo
Vitiligo is a common, acquired depigmentation disorder, affecting 0.5-2% of the global population.1 It has a similar prevalence to psoriasis, which affects just over 2%…
