Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) · 2012
Difficult venepuncture--it was all in the head!
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Badami K G, Chalmers I, Soule S, Walkden D
Аннотация
AIM: To emphasise the importance of careful observations and demonstrate that significant conditions may, on occasion, be detected during blood donation.
BACKGROUND: Venepunctures, the bread and butter of blood donor services, can be difficult procedures. We describe an unusual presentation of a relatively rare disease detected during routine blood donations because of difficult venepunctures.
METHODS: Case report.
RESULTS: A growth hormone-secreting pituitary adenoma was diagnosed, and successfully treated, following the initial observation of hard-to-puncture skin during blood donations.
CONCLUSIONS: Seemingly trivial abnormalities may prove clinically important. One presentation of acromegaly is hard-to-puncture skin.
BACKGROUND: Venepunctures, the bread and butter of blood donor services, can be difficult procedures. We describe an unusual presentation of a relatively rare disease detected during routine blood donations because of difficult venepunctures.
METHODS: Case report.
RESULTS: A growth hormone-secreting pituitary adenoma was diagnosed, and successfully treated, following the initial observation of hard-to-puncture skin during blood donations.
CONCLUSIONS: Seemingly trivial abnormalities may prove clinically important. One presentation of acromegaly is hard-to-puncture skin.