A 78-year-old woman was referred for coronary angiography with the chief complaint of exertional angina and dyspnea of a very long duration during routine daily physical activities. She had a history of poorly controlled hypertension and dyslipidemia. Coronary angiography revealed diffuse three-vessel disease. Interestingly, an unusual branch was noted originating from the mid shaft of the left...

A32-year-old 15-day-postpartum G3P2 woman presented with sudden cardiac arrest due to an acute anterolateral wall myocardial infarction. An emergent coronary angiogram revealed a mild 30% distal left main tapering, severe diffuse compromise of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) as well as the diagonal lumen, and normal left circumflex (LCx) and right coronary arteries. Three day...

BACKGROUND The significance of occlusive lesions of the parent artery in patients with lacunar syndrome (LS) and small deep infarcts (SDIs) on diffusion-weighted imaging remains unclear. OBJECTIVE To compare the recurrence of stroke in patients with LS and SDIs between those with vs without a parent arterial lesion. DESIGN Analysis of data from a prospective acute stroke registry. SETTING...

BACKGROUND White matter lesions (WMLs) are associated with hypertension, an increased risk of falling, and impaired physical and cognitive performance that may affect the mechanical effect of falls. METHODS We hypothesized that WMLs are a risk factor for hip fracture (HF). We studied a sample of 820 community-dwelling Italian persons 65 years and older from the cohort of the Progetto Veneto A...

Studies in human and non-human primates have confirmed the compensatory enlargement or positive remodeling (Glagov phenomenon) of coronary vessels in the presence of focal stenosis. To our knowledge, this is the first study to document arterial enlargement in a metabolic syndrome animal model with diffuse coronary artery disease (DCAD) in the absence of severe focal stenosis. Two different grou...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men and the fifth most common cancer worldwide. In the USA it is more common in African-American men than in Caucasian men. Prostate cancer frequently metastasizes to bone and the lesions appear osteoblastic on radiographs. Presentation with diffuse osteolytic bone lesions is rare. We describe an unusual presentation...

primary non-hodgkin’s lymphoma of the cranial vault is extremely rare. this case report presents a 42-year-old man with a painless subcutaneous scalp mass which extended intracranially associated with recent mild headache. initial computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed two lesions emanating from the skull. biopsy revealed a diagnosis of diffuse large b cell lymphoma (dlbcl)...

amyloidosis cutis dyschromica (acd) is a rare form of macular amyloidosis characterized by hypo and hyperpigmented macules. here we described a 20 year old girl with diffuse hypo and hyperpigmentation since she was four years old. five other members of her family are also involved. biopsy of hyperpigmented lesions revealed increase of melanin in the basal layer, pigment incontinence and amorpho...

malignant lymphoma may occur in the oral cavity and oropharynx, but is most commonly located in waldeyer's ring, particularly in the palatine and lingual tonsil. the occurrence of malignant lymphoma in the tongue is very rare. clinical features are nonspecific ulcerative lesions that do not heal. in the literature, the majority of cases are non-hodgkin’s lymphoma, diffuse large b cell type; how...