DESCRIPTION A 67-year-old man presented with sudden onset shortness of breath that began while playing golf. Abdominal examination revealed a large mass extending to the umbilicus. CT pulmonary angiog-raphy demonstrated a pulmonary embolus and a Figure 1 Axial section of abdominal CT reveals a large hepatic cyst in the right lobe of the liver. Figure 2 Coronal section of a T2-weighted MRI showi...

A 63-year-old man was admitted to our emergency department because of abdominal pain with distension and ischemia of both lower limbs for the past 2 hours. Previously, he had vomited extremely following alcoholic excess and an opulent meal. In his previous history, distal esophageal stenosis was obvious after surgical therapy of Boerhaave syndrome 3.5 years earlier with primary suturing of the ...

We report a case of macroscopic hematuria secondary to an aneurysm of the internal iliac artery. An 84-year-old male presented to our department with a 12-hour history of painless gross hematuria. Cystoscopy showed decreased expansion suggesting compression from outside the bladder. At the point of compression, increased vascularization was noted in the bladder mucosa without evidence of active...

BACKGROUND Chronic pelvic pain is a common condition among women, and 10 to 30 % of causes originate from the abdominal wall, and are associated with trigger points. Although little is known about their pathophysiology, variable methods have been practiced clinically. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of local anaesthetic injections versus ischemic compression via physical ...

We report a case of acute type B aortic dissection with the complication of bowel ischemia and abdominal stent graft compression treated by emergency thoracic aortic stent grafting after endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). A 69-year-old male was admitted to our hospital for sudden thoraco-abdominal pain. He had past treatment history of EVAR for AAA half a y...

To investigate alternative mechanisms generating artificial circulation during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), an electrical model of the circulation was developed. Heart and blood vessels were modeled as resistive-capacitive networks; pressures in the chest, abdomen, and vascular compartments as voltages; blood flow as electric current; blood inertia as inductance; and the cardiac and ven...

Blood in the splanchnic vasculature can be transferred to the extremities. We quantified such blood shifts in normal subjects by measuring trunk volume by optoelectronic plethysmography, simultaneously with changes in body volume by whole body plethysmography during contractions of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles. Trunk volume changes with blood shifts, but body volume does not so that the ...

This study clarified the effect of body physique to abdominal injury distribution in terms of frontal passengers at frontal collision using NASS/CDS database with medical knowledge and engineering analysis. Present research based on the real-world accident data showed that distribution and severity of abdominal injuries of the restrained front seat occupants in frontal collisions was reflected ...