... such as CEAalone, or CABG alone, or staged CEA and CABG, orstaged carotid artery stenting (CAS) and CABG, andsimultaneous CEA and CABG, or simultaneous CASand CABG. In the majority of these approaches ... applied a 14 Frcannula into the distal part of the internal carotid artery. A separate pump was connecte d in cannula and arterialblood at 23°C was delivered at a flow rate of 300 ml/min [4]. Although, ... Off-pumpCABG certainly has many advantages and ina recentstudy an aorto-carotid shunt was used in patients whounderwent combined CEA and CABG with satisfactoryresults [7]. However, in our case...
... article as: Nenekidis et al.: Transternal repair of a giantMorgagni hernia causing cardiac tamponade ina patient with coexisting severe aortic valve stenosis. Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery2011 ... AK, Balci AY, Tuygun A, Günay R, Sensöz Y, Yurtseven N, Alkan P:Simultaneous operation ina patient with coronary heart disease,abnormal orifice of coronary arteries, morgagni hernia, atrial ... stenosis andglobal respiratory failure due to a giant Morgagni hernia causing additionally cardiac tamponade. The patientunderwent simultaneous repair of the hernia defect and aortic valve replacement...
... general malaise andnight sweats. On examination, he was found to have anejection systolic murmur in the aortic area a nd a pan-systolic murmur in t he mitral area radiating to theaxilla. His ... managed with percutaneous coro nary intervention orthrombolysis. We report a rare case of acute myocardial infarction secondary to coronary embolisation of valvularvegetation ina patient with ... of a patient with AMI secondary to embolisation of vegeta-tion sitting on a prosthetic aortic valve ina patient with confirmed aortic valve infective endocarditis (IE).Case presentation A 73-year-old...
... and interpreted the patient data regardingthe hypercalcemia. YH collected the clinical data and reviewed the literatureabout flare. KK was the doctor in charge and was a major contributor in writing ... subsided and she hasremained well. Repeated ultrasonograms revealed noprogression of liver metastasis. Our patient’sCEAandCA 15-3 have again increased to pretreatment levels buthave remained stable.Discussion A ... increase of tumor markers and an increase in skeletal pain in patients with bone metastasis. Tumorflare can be accompanied by flare hypercalcemia.The distinction between spontaneous hypercalcemiaand...
... CASE REP O R T Open Access A giant adrenal lipoma presenting ina woman with chronic mild postprandial abdominal pain: a case reportStylianos Kapetanakis1,2, Ioannis Drygiannakis1*, Anastasios ... hypochondric areas. The remainderof the physical examination was normal, as were labora-tory tests.An abdominal CT scan was performed with oraladministration of contrast. A large retroperitoneal mass(16 ... postprandial abdominal pain. Although clinicalexaminations were unrevealing, an abdominal computed tomography scan performed at her most recentpresentation led to the identification of a large...
... disease. In our patient, we found that thebrain MRI findings (bilateral edema and hyperintensity ofthe basal ganglia and thalami) were helpful in this clinicalsetting to establish a preliminary ... intensity within the basalganglia and thalami. A West Nile virus titer was positive, and serial brain magnetic resonance imaging scansshowed resolving abnormalities that paralleled his neurological ... positive (acuteand convalescent phase). A brain MRI scan (Figure 1C)obtained on day 21 revealed resolving inflammatorychanges in the basal ganglia and thalamus. Six weekslater he was fully oriented...
... CAS E REP O R T Open AccessAplastic anemia associated with interferon alpha 2a ina patient with chronic hepatitis C virusinfection: a case reportSavvas Ioannou, Gregorios Hatzis, Ioanna ... Vlahadami, Michael Voulgarelis*AbstractIntroduction: Hepatitis-associated aplastic anemia is a common syndrome in patients with bone marrow failure.However, hepatitis-associated aplastic anemia ... Sobhani M, Vaziri MZ, Bagheri N, Sabaghi F, Talebian A: Associationof aplastic anaemia and Fanconi’s disease with HLA-DRB1 alleles. Int JImmunogenet 2008, 35:453-456.19. Ramos-Casals M, Garc a- Carrasco...
... demonstrated a cholestatic pic-ture: total protein 66 g/L, albumin 36 g/L, alkalinephosphates (ALP) 809IU/L, alanine transaminase (ALT)543IU/L, glutamyl transaminase (GGT) 334IU/L, andbilirubin ... young adults and always with raisedamylase and lipase blood levels [1,3,4]. In our patient, acute pancreatitis was possibly relatedto his abnormal pancreatic duct anatomy and the che-mical insult ... Gastroenterology, Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania,Australia.3Department of Radiology, Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania,Australia.4Department of Surgery, Royal Hobart Hospital, Collins Street,Hobart, 7001,...
... clinical abnormalities: a case reportJoaquín Fernández-Toral1, Laura Rodríguez2, Ana Plasencia3, Mar a Luisa Martínez-Frías4, Elisabeth Ewers5,Ahmed B Hamid5, Monika Ziegler5, Thomas ... was also a boy who died after two days due tohyaline membrane disease and prematurity. Our patientwas delivered by caesarean section after 39 gestationalweeks because of macrosomy, witha weight ... duetothesSMCpresence.TheonlydetectablesSMC-related chromosomal imbalance is a small partial tris-omy 12p11.2~12.1. According to Liehr [8] there are sev-eral cases witha partial trisomy 12p12 due to an sSMCwhich were all clinically...