Báo cáo y học: " Fatal pulmonary embolism following shoulder arthroplasty: a case report" potx

... Case presentation A 73-year-old Caucasian woman was admitted for elective shoulder replacement for an arthritic shoulder. She was being treated for hypertension with beta-blockers and thiazide ... chemical or mechanical thrombo- prophylaxis were used postoperatively. The patient was already feeling well on the next post- operative day and her blood parameters were satisfactory. Her pai...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:20

... 2008. doi:10.1186/1752-1947-4-252 Cite this article as: Lodi et al.: Fatal cold agglutinin-induced haemolytic anaemia: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:252. Lodi et al. Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010, ... journal. Acknowledgements The authors greatly appreciate the technical assistance of Ms. Paola Bonauguro and Mr. Alberto Castellani. Authors’ contributio...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:21

... haemolytic anaemia and Raynaud’s syndrome, cold ag glutinin disease is usually idiopathic. Several factors play a role in determining the ability of a cold agglutinin to induce a haemolytic anaemia such ... CAS E RE P O R T Open Access Fatal cold agglutinin-induced haemolytic anaemia: a case report Gianluca Lodi * , Daniela Resca, Roberto Reverberi Abstract Introduction: Cold aggl...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:20

... anticoagulants and anti-platelet agents. We report a rectus sheath haematoma as a complication of exercise testing in a patient with acute coronary syndrome. Case presentation A 72-year-old Caucasian ... hypertension and coronary artery disease. Two years before admission, she had undergone coronary angiography because of angina, which revealed three-vessel coronary disease. The exa...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:20

... substantial alcohol use. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed major aortic and mitral regurgitations, aortic and mitral vegetation, a mitral chordal rupture, systolic pulmonary arterial pressure (SPAP) ... include aminoglycoside therapy, the only anti- biotic treatment bactericide for Bartonella spp., for at least 14 days. The cardiac failure we observed may evoke fulminant myocarditis...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... this patient had WAIHA or drug-induced hemolysis caused by an autoan- tibody. If he did have WAIHA, we are unable to find any clear precipitating cause for his catastrophic hemolysis other than ... previous case reports. We report a case of rapidly fatal hemolysis that was temporally associated with the initiation of metformin treatment for diabetes. Clinicians need to be aware of thi...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... Recently, Teachey [4] reported a case of pul- monary embolism occurring soon after vasectomy and we believe the similarity of this case adds support to our argument. The operating physician in ... 1971, 284:1330. 3. Alt WJ: Thrombophlebitis and pulmonary emboli following vasectomy. Michigan Med 1973, 72(33):769-770. 4. Teachey DT: Saddle pulmonary embolism as a complication...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:21

... Kamugisha LM, Massaga JJ, Makunde RW, Savael ZX, Akida J, Salum FM, Taylor MJ: Treatment of coinfection with ban- croftian filariasis and onchocerciasis: a safety and efficacy study of albendazole ... debilitating symptoms. The etiol- ogy of the lymphedema usually determines the natural course and the therapeutic approach. Case presentation Case report In April 2005, a 40-year-old Cau...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:22

... this case report and any accompany- ing images. A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal. Author details 1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Abant ... Patellar tendon ossification after partial patellectomy: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:47. Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advant...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:22

... occur- rence was endometrial carcinoma at six cases, followed by malignant mixed mullerian tumor (MMMT) at three cases, and a case each of complex hyperplasia, endome- trial stromal sarcoma and adenosarcoma ... are commonly hyperplastic. It will usually also be apparent that some are set in a non-neoplastic stroma that is being encroached upon by a malignant stromal component. Also, t...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20