Sudden Simultaneous Arterial Embolism Involving all Four Limbs

Arterial Embolism in the Limbs

Material The views expressed in this paper are based on a study of clinical and morbid anatomical material, personally observed by the writer during the period I938 to I954. It comprises: (i) Clinical records of a series of 122 separate incidents of limb embolism in 69 patients. (2) Records of 48 autopsies on patients of the clinical series. (3) An additional series of 269 patients suffering fr...

Arterial embolism in the limbs; clinical assessment and management.

Complex regional pain syndrome in all four limbs.

supply to cranial nerves X and XII, and thus carotid dissection after minor trauma may lead to sudden cranial nerve X and XII palsies. For this reason, in the present case, MR angiography and carotid triplex scan took place but did not reveal any abnormality. Additionally, Tapia’s syndrome can be considered as a localized lesion at the crossing of the recurrent laryngeal and hypoglossal nerves....

Air embolism involving the coronary and pulmonary circulation: an unusual cause of sudden cardiac death.

A 58-year-old man with a history of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma status post liver and kidney transplantation, coronary artery disease, and ventricular arrhythmia status post ICD placement underwent an outpatient fine-needle aspiration biopsy of a pulmonary nodule under computed tomography (CT) guidance at an outside hospital (Figure 1). After the procedure, the patient was noted to h...

Arterial embolectomy in lower limbs.

Arterial embolisms in the lower limbs occur frequently, and are of great interest to the vascular surgeon. The authors studied 159 cases of arterial embolisms in lower limbs from January 1991 to July 1993. Ages varied from 12 to 98, with a mean of 58. Eighty patients were male and 78 were female. In most cases, etiology of the embolus was well-established, and mainly caused (78 percent) by atri...