Acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory disease often associated with local and systemic complications. Portosplenic and splanchnic vascular complications of acute pancreatitis are common, but extrasplanchnic vessel thrombosis is less commonly seen. Among them, pulmonary thromboembolism is a very rare complication to be encountered with. We report four cases of acute pulmonary thromboembolism in ...

V enous thromboembolism is a well described, though infrequently reported, complication of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) (Anhalt et al. 1996; Gill et al. 2006). Studies have shown that systemic prothrombotic changes occur during diabetic ketoacidosis, including endothelial activation, decreased levels of free protein S and protein C activity, and conformational changes to the vascular endothelial...

Pulmonary thromboembolism after distal ulna and radius fractures surgery: A case report a literature review

BACKGROUND Arrhythmias resulting in cardiac arrest during electroconvulsive therapy have been reported. Most reported cases of cardiac arrest had asystole as the initial rhythm. Pulseless electrical activity as an initial rhythm of cardiac arrest during electroconvulsive therapy has never been reported. Also, thromboembolism after inflation of pneumatic tourniquet during lower limb surgery has ...

Patients with pulmonary thromboembolism (PE) often decompensate suddenly, and once hemodynamic compromise has developed, mortality is extremely high. Currently, thrombolytic therapy for PE is still controversial. We retrospectively evaluated 34 patients with PE between January 2010 and December 2013 in the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Medical Park Samsun Hospital, Samsun, Turkey. The demog...

Advances in image-guided, catheter-based interventions have shown great potential to improve outcomes in patients with venous thromboembolism. Catheter-directed thrombolysis has been shown in one randomized controlled trial to reduce the risk of post-thrombotic syndrome in patients with acute lower extremity deep vein thrombosis; data from a larger national institute of health trial are expecte...

Angiosarcoma arising in the pulmonary artery is extremely rare. We herein report a case of angiosarcoma arising in the pulmonary artery trunk of 71 year-old woman. This case was clinically diagnosed as pulmonary thromboembolism but angiosarcoma of the pulmonary artery should be considered as the differential diagnosis of unusual clinical manifestations of pulmonary thromboembolism because of th...

CHRONIC, massive thrombotic obstruction of the pulmonary arteries has attracted interest recurrently through the years as a neglected cause of pulmonary hypertension of obscure etiology, usually discovered at autopsy.'-10 This form of "cor pulmonale" has been regarded as a rare entity of academic rather than therapeutic interest. Such opinions now require revision. With the advent of pulmonary ...

CHRONIC, massive thrombotic obstruction of the pulmonary arteries has attracted interest recurrently through the years as a neglected cause of pulmonary hypertension of obscure etiology, usually discovered at autopsy.'-10 This form of "cor pulmonale" has been regarded as a rare entity of academic rather than therapeutic interest. Such opinions now require revision. With the advent of pulmonary ...