TOPIC: Disorders of the Pleura TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Intrapleural fibrinolytic therapy is a common, surgery-avoiding option in treatment complicated para-pneumonic effusion. It has been shown to be safe majority patients, with most significant risk being severe pleural hemorrhage. In this case report, we will present unique patient who developed concurrent ma...

TOPIC: Cardiovascular Disease TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: With ever-increasing indications for their use, cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) have become a staple intervention patients with various cardiovascular disease processes. This uptrend in clinical use has seen similar rise procedural complications, an overall incidence around 14%. [1] These numb...

Purpose: Pulmonary sequestration (PS) is a rare congenital lung malformation. It is characterized by an abnormal mass of dysplastic lung tissue supplied by an anomalous systemic artery and separated from normal bronchopulmonary tree. Misdiagnosis and inadequate treatment can lead to recurrent pneumonia and fatal hemoptysis. Methods: We report a 45 years female was diagnosed PS, and performed a ...

We evaluate the use of multidetector row computed tomography (MDCT) angiography for the depiction of bronchial and non-bronchial systemic arteries (NBSAs), which frequently become enlarged as a secondary finding in a wide array of chronic lung diseases and other diseases that affect the pulmonary vascular system. MDCT angiography has enabled radiologists to provide thin-slice axial images, mult...

BACKGROUND Hemoptysis is uncommon in pediatric practice. We reviewed 10 years of experience with hemoptysis in a tertiary pediatric hospital to identify patient characteristics and predictors of mortality. METHODS Patients were divided into four age groups (0 to 5, 6 to 10, 11 to 20, and >20 years). Hemoptysis was defined as mild (<150 mL/day), large (150 to 400 mL/day), or massive (>400 mL/d...