right-sided heart thrombus is a life-threatening condition that necessitates immediate therapy. detection of right-sided heart thrombus is usually via transthoracic echocardiography. generally, thrombolysis is considered a treatment of choice, but there is currently no consensus about the optimal therapeutic choice. we present a case of multiple right atrial thrombi with concurrent mobile and b...

paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (pnh) is a rare hematologic disorder that manifests with hemolytic anemia, thrombosis, and peripheral blood cytopenias.acute abdominal pain is one of the pnh clinical manifestations due to venous thrombosis of intra-abdominal sites including hepatic, portal, mesenteric, and splenic veins.eculizumaband allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (bmt) arethe only w...

A 72-year-old patient with a history of nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy type III and atrial fibrillation of several years’ duration presented to the emergency department with dyspnea at rest (New York Heart Association functional class IV). The patient had been using metoprolol, digoxin, furosemide, and warfarin and had a history of significant variations in the International Normali...

The surgical indications for dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) remain controversial, not including cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. We describe a case of idiopathic DCM that underwent successful surgical treatment using a modified left ventriculectomy, modification of the Batista procedure. The patient was a 63-year-old man who suffered from heart failure, New York Heart A...

A 61-year-old woman who underwent HeartMate II left ventricular assist device placement for non-ischemic cardiomyopathy developed elevated lactate dehydrogenase within two weeks after implantation. After eight months of observation and several hospital admissions during which there was no evidence of pump thrombosis, she presented with clinically manifest hemolysis. During pump exchange there w...

Fluoropyrimidines are the chemotherapy backbone in the treatment of adenocarcinoma of the colon. Adjuvant 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)/leucovorin (LV) has been shown to significantly increase recurrence-free survival compared to surgery alone for patients with stage III colon cancer. Furthermore, the addition of oxaliplatin to 5-FU/LV (FOLFOX) in the adjuvant setting has been shown to provide an impro...

RATIONALE Left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy (LVNC) is a rare heart disorder related to thrombosis. Anticoagulant therapy is suggested for the treatment of this disease. The success of the novel oral anticoagulant rivaroxaban as a treatment option for this disorder is unclear. PATIENT CONCERNS A 43-year-old man who felt dizzy at rest was found to have an intraventricular thrombus....

THE SYNDROME OF consumption coagulopathy occurs in association with a wide variety of underlying illnesses. In general, resolution of the coagulopathy accompanies successful treatment of the primary disorder. If the underlying pathological process is not clinically apparent, evidence of consumption coagulopathy may be a clue leading to diagnosis and appropriate therapy. Such conditions may incl...

background: the purpose of this study is to demonstrate the advantages of gradient echo (gre) sequences in the detection and characterization of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis compared to conventional magnetic resonance sequences. methods: a total of 17 patients with cerebral venous thrombosis (cvt) were evaluated using different magnetic resonance imaging (mri) sequences. the mri sequences i...

conclusions in our population of cirrhotic patients, treatment of variceal bleeding predisposed the patients to portal vein thrombosis, but hypercoagulable disorders by themselves were not associated with portal vein thrombosis. results there was no statistically significant difference in the assessed hypercoagulable states between patients with or without portal vein thrombosis. a history of p...