BACKGROUND Coronary artery spasm is a transient narrowing of coronary arteries that slows or stops blood flow through the artery. CASE REPORT We present a 42-year-smoker man without any medical problem who developed syncope. Coronary angiography revealed diffuse significant narrowing of proximal left anterior descending artery (LAD), 90% osteal stenosis of large obtuse marginal (OM), 90% diff...

Behçet's disease (BD) is a multiorgan vasculitis of unknown origin, with characteristic skin lesions, recurrent uveitis and neurological manifestations [1–3]. Here we present a case of diffuse coronary artery aneurysms involving three major vessels and its appropriate medical treatment. A 45-year-old man visited our cardiology outpatient clinic with a 2-month history of progressive exertional c...

OBJECTIVE To map sites of occurrence of facial infantile hemangiomas and correlate these with pattern of tumor growth, clinical complications, and proximity to structural and developmental landmarks. DESIGN A retrospective medical record review of 205 patients diagnosed with facial infantile hemangioma. SETTING Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, a 250-bed teaching hospital affiliate...

OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence of HPV in diffuse high grade pre-cancerous lesions of the larynx. METHODS Patient charts were searched for those who presented between October 2008 and June 2009 with diffuse vocal fold leukoplakia. Biopsy proven laryngeal lesions with high grade dysplasia or carcinoma-in-situ (CIS) were examined for patient characteristics and presence of high-risk type HP...

Diffuse-type in-stent restenosis (ISR) is known to be associated with a higher rate of restenosis than focal-type ISR. Therefore, it is clinically important to identify the determinants of diffuse-type ISR following drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation. We investigated the clinical, procedural and angiographic variables for predicting diffuse-type ISR following DES implantation. A total of 173...

A 58-year-old man had 3 years history of asymptomatic, extensive, yellowish patches on his face, neck, trunk and arms. Histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of diffuse plane xanthomatosis. This is a rare non-lipemic disease in which xanthomatous lesions develop in the skin in association with paraproteinemia. Serum lipids are usually normal. The histological features include bot...