While cardiac involvement is not a common presentation in human echinococcosis, it may lead to life-threatening complications including cyst rupture; anaphylactic shock; tamponade; pulmonary, cerebral or peripheral arterial embolism; acute coronary syndrome; dysrhythmias; infection; ventricular or valvular dysfunction, as well as sudden death. Here we report a 9-year old girl who was diagnosed ...

Cyanotic congenital heart defects (CCHD) with severe pulmonary stenosis or atresia exhibit hypoxemia and cyanosis secondary to pulmonary oligemia and right-to-left shunt. Even though a substantial proportion of these patients can be surgically corrected at presentation, such correction is not feasible in some patients either because of the age and size of the patient at presentation or because ...

Objective. The risk of pulmonary embolism is well recognized as showing an increase in oncological patients. We report a case presenting with pulmonary embolism initially, which was then diagnosed with testicular cancer. Clinical Presentation and Intervention. A 25-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department with a complaint of dyspnoea. Thoracic tomography, lung ventilation/perfusion...

BACKGROUND Primary pulmonary diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is extremely rare neoplasm representing only 0.5-1% of primary pulmonary malignancies. These patients usually have non-specific clinical presentation and radiological findings. Therefore, it is important to increase awareness of this rare disease, as the correct characterization of the tumors will have therapeutic and prognostic...

tuberculosis (tb) is an important health problem in developing countries, with varying clinical presentations depending on the organs/systems involved. to study the spectrum of clinical and paraclinical aspects of extra pulmonary tb in children suffering from pulmonary tb. this study has been carried out on 65 children with tuberculosis, admitted in tb wards of national research institute of tu...

Factors predicting life expectancy in primary pulmonary hypertension have not been well defined. Thirty four cases of primary pulmonary hypertension that had been followed up until death or for at least five years were reviewed retrospectively. Patients were divided into three groups: 18 patients who died within five years of presentation to hospital; 12 who survived more than five years; and f...

Pulmonary vein stenosis is recognised as a rare, silent cause of pulmonary hypertension. ' The condition can occur with or without intracardiac anomalies. '3 The presence of lesions, such as ventricular septal defect, which cause pulmonary hypertension in their own right, can make suspicion of associated pulmonary venous obstruction difficult. In only one of the four reported cases4-7 of ventri...

Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder, characterised by the presence of vascular malformations. The pulmonary vascular complications of HHT include pulmonary arteriovenous malformations, pulmonary hypertension associated with high-output heart failure and liver vascular malformations and, finally, pulmonary arterial hypertension secondary to HHT. In ...

  Gastrointestinal aspergillosis most often occurs in the setting of disseminated infection from a primary pulmonary site and primary gastrointestinal aspergillosis is an unusual presentation. We report a 7 year old female child with aplastic anemia, who was under treatment but experienced periods of neutropenia. She had no evidence of respiratory aspergillosis before the onset of abdominal s...