Road traffic accidents (RTA) result in the deaths of approximately 1.3 million people around world each year; among them, more than half all road and injuries involve vulnerable users, such as cyclists, motorcyclists, along with pillion riders pedestrians. Blunt cardiac trauma (BCT) often results from high-impact mechanisms caused by motorcycle crashes, motor vehicle accidents, fall injuries, c...

The incidence of hemopericardium following percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty is reported at 1-3%, being related to either trans-septal puncture, or left ventricular perforation with guide wires or balloons. We report a case of percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty for a middle-aged man with moderately severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. The procedure was performed through a right femoral vein approac...

BACKGROUND Acute aortic syndrome, including classic aortic dissection, intramural aortic hematoma, and penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer (PAU), is a term used to describe a group of conditions with similar clinical symptoms, but with different pathophysiological mechanisms. PAU is a lesion that penetrates the internal elastic lamina through the media. It is usually located in the descending aor...

THIS case is not reported as a rarity, for haemopericardium is not infrequent as the immediate cause of death in aneurysm of the ascending arch of the aorta; but it may be of some interest as an example of the sudden fatal termination so often seen in cardio-vascular syphilis. The subject was a male in middle adult life. His exact age was not ascertainable. The only clinical history available w...