A 57-year-old woman with hypertension, mixed mitral valve disease, and atrial fibrillation was admitted to our hospital because of abdominal pain continuing for several hours. On the following day, colonoscopy was performed, and diffuse yellow-white pseudomembranous changes were seen in the right
Background: Paradoxical embolism (PDE) presented with concomitant pulmonary embolism (PE) and renal artery embolism (RAE) which occurred to breast cancer patient after breast-conserving therapy, has never been reported.
Cholesterol crystal embolization is a well-known disorder resulting from release of cholesterol crystals from ulcerous atherosclerotic plaques. Gastrointestinal involvement occurs in about a third of cases, but it is usually asymptomatic. We report a case of an old woman with small bowel obstruction
We describe an interesting clinical course of a patient who developed severe ischemic liver injury due to acute embolism of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) and celiac artery. A 70-year-old man was hospitalized for abdominal pain and diarrhea. Abdominal computed tomography demonstrated a variant
Acute cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection occurs commonly in immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients, but is usually asymptomatic in the latter. Vascular events associated with acute CMV infection have been described, but are rare. Hence, such events are rarely reported in the literature. We
The authors report a successful management of acute superior mesenteric artery embolism in a patient during the treatment of popliteal artery embolism. The diagnosis of this disease was confirmed by computerized tomographic angiography. Immediate surgical embolectomy and bowel resection were
We describe the case of pulmonary embolism from metallic mercury after an deliberate intravenous injection in a drug addict. Metallic mercury embolisation is extremely rare and it is very important to remark the role of elementary mercury in chronic poisoning. In most reported cases, including our
We presented the case of a neonate with portal venous gas and pulmonary gas embolism. The patient presented with severe respiratory distress and abdominal distension 12 hours after birth. An ultrasound revealed intravascular microbubbles moving into a pulmonary artery that were traveling from the
BACKGROUND
Cronkhite Canada Syndrome (CCS) is a rare syndrome, described in 1955 by Americans, Leonard Wolsey Cronkhite and Wilma Jeanne Canada in the New England Journal of Medicine [1]. About 450 cases have been reported. Complications, like malignant transformation, unprovoked thromboembolism is
Ischemic colitis (IC) secondary to air embolism from decompression sickness or barotrauma during diving is an extremely rare condition. After extensive review of the available literature, we found that there has been only one reported case of IC secondary to air embolism from diving. Although air
BACKGROUND
Thyroid storm is a serious condition of thyrotoxicosis. Hyperthyroidism often presents with thrombotic events, especially at cerebral sites; however, the possible association between a lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (LEDVT) and thyroid storm has not been previously reported. We
A 57-year-old female patient with known cardiac disease developed a 4 to 6 week history of diarrhea, followed by onset of orthopnea and subsequent right-sided cardiac failure. On hospital admission she was found to have pure tricuspid regurgitation, without evidence of cardiac ischemia, pulmonary
We report on the course of disease in a young woman, originally admitted with suspected refractory infectious tropical traveler's diarrhea. However, symptoms did not resolve upon either symptomatic or subsequent antibiotic therapy. When neurologic deterioration was observed, imaging studies revealed
We present a case of a 55-year-old male patient who suffered from a neogenic embolism formation and a sudden embolus detachment during hemodialysis treatment. For this case, the sudden onset of thrombosis formation and embolism detachment were caused by severe dehydration due to diarrhea, which
Vaginal tightening is a kind of esthetic surgery aimed at enhancing sexual satisfaction during intercourse. Although the injective vaginal tightening procedure is informal, there are already some reports of its application. But pulmonary embolism is a really rare therapeutic complication of this