Volume 31
Samenvatting In 1967 werd een nieuw virus gevonden in de Duitse stad Marburg. Het virus bleek een nieuw Filovirus te zijn dat geïntroduceerd was door apen in een laboratorium. Sindsdien heeft het Marburg-virus meerdere grote uitbraken veroorzaakt met name in West-Afrika. Marburg-infecties hebben een niet-specifieke presentatie en leiden tot hoge…
A 77-year-old male was admitted with COVID-19 requiring intubation, prone positioning and treatment for bilateral segmental pulmonary embolism. Medical history consisted of type 2 diabetes and stable chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Two weeks after intubation, he developed electrocardiographic changes with deeply inverted T waves in leads V2 to V4 (figure 1).…
Abstract A 48-year-old male presented to our emergency department after a suicide attempt using the helium method. This increasingly popular method of inhaling helium rapidly causes asphyxia and death. When the supply of helium is interrupted, it may result in post-anoxic encephalopathy, as demonstrated in this case. Introduction In the…
Abstract Meigs syndrome is a rare clinical entity of benign origin in which a triad of ovarian tumour (usually ovarian fibroma or fibroid-like tumour), hydrothorax and ascites co-exist and raise suspicion of malignancy. Here, we report the case of a 60-year-old female presenting with a suspicion of ovarian cancer with…
Abstract A 72-year-old patient was admitted to the intensive care unit with respiratory failure due to rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease (ILD). All cultures and PCRs focused on ILD were negative and a paraneoplastic phenomenon was deemed unlikely after screening for malignancy. Inflammatory myositis was suspected as the patient also…
Every couple of years the Netherlands Journal of Critical Care replaces the editor in chief and his/her entourage. After taking on this role in 2018, now, four years later, Prof. Dirk Donker and his associate editors Dr. Maarten van Eijk, Dr. Nuray Kusadasi and Dr. Christiaan Meuwese have come to…