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The take-off of < em > Drosophila < /em > research in 1930-1950s Edinburgh
J R Coll Physicians Edinb. 2023 Mar 16:14782715231162675. doi: 10.1177/14782715231162675. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is a simple and powerful model organism. It has played a critical role over more than a century, for example in establishing the field of genetics, and in foundational insights into the molecular basis of development. From the 1930s until today, researchers at the University of Edinburgh have used Drosophila to tackle questions in basic and biomedical science. Here the history of the initial decades of this research is explored, beginning with the introduction of Dr...
Source: Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh - March 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Robin Beaven Source Type: research

Long-standing undiagnosed foreign body aspiration with concomitant Pulmonary tuberculosis in an Immuno-competent man
We present a 57-year-old with chronic productive cough who was diagnosed to have pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), complicated by long-standing foreign body in the tracheobronchial tree. There are many cases reported in literature where there have been misdiagnosis with respect to pulmonary TB as foreign body or foreign bodies as pulmonary TB. However, this is the first case where retained foreign body and pulmonary TB coexisted in a patient.PMID:36905249 | DOI:10.1177/14782715231161958 (Source: Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh)
Source: Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh - March 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Sheetal Chaurasia Blessy B Prabha Shalina Ray Saurav Chowdhury Source Type: research

Noise and transient ischaemic attacks - A challenge?
J R Coll Physicians Edinb. 2023 Mar 8:14782715231161500. doi: 10.1177/14782715231161500. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTConsistency in medical decision-making is ideally expected. This includes consistency between different clinicians so that the same patient will receive the same diagnosis regardless of the assessing clinician. It also encompasses reliability as an individual clinician meaning at any given time or context, we apply the same process and principles to ensure the decisions we make do not deviate significantly from our peers or indeed our own past decisions. However, consistency in decision-making can be chall...
Source: Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh - March 8, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tim Cassidy Lucy Chapman Source Type: research

Acute intermittent porphyria: A rare cause of syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion
J R Coll Physicians Edinb. 2023 Mar 8:14782715231161499. doi: 10.1177/14782715231161499. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA 31-year-old female presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain, vomiting and constipation. Serum sodium levels were recorded at 110 on admission, dropping to 96 despite fluid restriction. The patient developed hallucinations and required hypertonic saline administration in critical care. Urinary sodium was detected at 149, consistent with syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SiADH). Urinary porphyrins were also raised, consistent with a diagnosis of acute intermittent p...
Source: Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh - March 8, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: William Cunningham Joel Chilaka Nehemiah Edwards Katherine Poulton Source Type: research