... such as CEA
alone, or CABG alone, or staged CEA and CABG, or
staged carotid artery stenting (CAS) and CABG, and
simultaneous CEA and CABG, or simultaneous CAS
and CABG. In the majority of these approaches ... applied a 14 Fr
cannula into the distal part of the internal carotid artery.
A separate pump was connecte d in cannula and arterial
blood at 23°C was delivered at a flow rate of 300 ml/
min [4]. Although, ... Off-pump
CABG certainly has many advantages and ina recent
study an aorto-carotid shunt was used in patients who
underwent combined CEA and CABG with satisfactory
results [7]. However, in our case...
... article as: Nenekidis et al.: Transternal repair of a giant
Morgagni hernia causing cardiac tamponade ina patient with
coexisting severe aortic valve stenosis. Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
2011 ... 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 and
global respiratory failure due to a giant Morgagni hernia causing additionally cardiac tamponade. The patient
underwent simultaneous repair of the hernia defect and aortic valve replacement...
... general malaise and
night sweats. On examination, he was found to have an
ejection systolic murmur in the aortic area a nd a pan-
systolic murmur in t he mitral area radiating to the
axilla. His ... managed with percutaneous coro nary intervention or
thrombolysis. We report a rare case of acute myocardial infarction secondary to coronary embolisation of valvular
vegetation 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 regarding
the hypercalcemia. YH collected the clinical data and reviewed the literature
about flare. KK was the doctor in charge and was a major contributor in
writing ... subsided and she has
remained well. Repeated ultrasonograms revealed no
progression of liver metastasis. Our patient’sCEAand
CA 15-3 have again increased to pretreatment levels but
have remained stable.
Discussion
A ... increase of tumor markers and an increase in
skeletal pain in patients with bone metastasis. Tumor
flare can be accompanied by flare hypercalcemia.
The distinction between spontaneous hypercalcemia
and...
... CASE REP O R T Open Access
A giant adrenal lipoma presenting ina woman
with chronic mild postprandial abdominal pain:
a case report
Stylianos Kapetanakis
1,2
, Ioannis Drygiannakis
1*
, Anastasios ... hypochondric areas. The remainder
of the physical examination was normal, as were labora-
tory tests.
An abdominal CT scan was performed with oral
administration of contrast. A large retroperitoneal mass
(16 ... postprandial abdominal pain. Although clinical
examinations were unrevealing, an abdominal computed tomography scan performed at her most recent
presentation led to the identification of a large...
... disease. In our patient, we found that the
brain MRI findings (bilateral edema and hyperintensity of
the basal ganglia and thalami) were helpful in this clinical
setting to establish a preliminary ... intensity within the basal
ganglia and thalami. A West Nile virus titer was positive, and serial brain magnetic resonance imaging scans
showed resolving abnormalities that paralleled his neurological ... positive (acute
and convalescent phase). A brain MRI scan (Figure 1C)
obtained on day 21 revealed resolving inflammatory
changes in the basal ganglia and thalamus. Six weeks
later he was fully oriented...
... CAS E REP O R T Open Access
Aplastic anemia associated with interferon alpha
2a ina patient with chronic hepatitis C virus
infection: a case report
Savvas Ioannou, Gregorios Hatzis, Ioanna ... Vlahadami, Michael Voulgarelis
*
Abstract
Introduction: 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: Association
of aplastic anaemia and Fanconi’s disease with HLA-DRB1 alleles. Int J
Immunogenet 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, alkaline
phosphates (ALP) 809IU/L, alanine transaminase (ALT)
543IU/L, glutamyl transaminase (GGT) 334IU/L, and
bilirubin ... young adults and always with raised
amylase and lipase blood levels [1,3,4].
In our patient, acute pancreatitis was possibly related
to his abnormal pancreatic duct anatomy and the che-
mical insult ... Gastroenterology, Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania,
Australia.
3
Department of Radiology, Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania,
Australia.
4
Department of Surgery, Royal Hobart Hospital, Collins Street,
Hobart, 7001,...
... clinical abnormalities:
a case report
Joaquín Fernández-Toral
1
, Laura Rodríguez
2
, Ana Plasencia
3
, Mar a Luisa Martínez-Frías
4
, Elisabeth Ewers
5
,
Ahmed B Hamid
5
, Monika Ziegler
5
, Thomas ... was also a boy who died after two days due to
hyaline membrane disease and prematurity. Our patient
was delivered by caesarean section after 39 gestational
weeks because of macrosomy, witha weight ... due
tothesSMCpresence.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 sSMC
which were all clinically...