Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor induced angioedema commonly involves the head and neck area. We report a case of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor induced intestinal angioedema in a heart transplant recipient on mTOR immunosuppression. A 36-year-old Caucasian woman with history of heart transplantation on sirolimus, tacrolimus and prednisone presented to the Emergency Department w...

Primary aorto-enteric fistula (PAEF)is a serious complication of abdominal aortic aneurysm(AAA). We report a patient with PAEF associated with inflammatory AAA who underwent emergent surgery. A 52-year-old male presented with recurrent hematemesis. A computer tomography scan showed a sealed rupture of the AAA adjacent to the duodenum. At surgery, a coin-sized PAEF was noted. The aorta was repla...

Renal artery thrombosis is a rare, but serious and often under-diagnosed condition. We report a case of bilateral renal artery thrombosis secondary to acute necrotizing pancreatitis. A 66-year-old female presented with abdominal pain and acute kidney injury (AKI). A renal biopsy showed organized intraluminal thrombi and a computer tomography scan of the abdomen showed bilateral renal artery thr...

Head motion during brain CT studies can adversely affect the reconstructed image through distortion and other artifacts such as blurring and doubling, thereby losing substantial information. In this paper, we propose a method to detect and eliminate motion artifacts in Feldkamp-David-Kress (FDK) based three-dimensional (3D) cone-beam tomography. Motion detection is achieved by comparing the cor...

Figure 1: Preoperative computer tomography scan showing adequate dimensions of the iliofemoral vessels and acceptable tortuosity for a transfemoral valve implantation (A). Deployment of the first 26-mm Sapien valve resulting in a paravalvular leakage >2+ (B). Implantation of a second valve to (asterisk) to cover the leakage, as the position of the first valve (hash) was considered to be too hig...

Bronchial leiomyoma is extremely rare. To date less than 60 cases have been reported in the world literature. The presented case here is a 30 year old woman who had been treated for bronchial asthma for several years. Her chest radiograph showed bulluos emphysematous changes in the right lung and computer tomography scan found the tumor in the right main bronchus near carina. Diagnosis was made...

The introduction of tomographic imaging revolutionized the way we look at medical images. Compared to X-ray projective image, Computer Tomography (CT) offers the possibility of analyzing anatomical structures on a three-dimensional, slice-to-slice approach. On the other hand, limitations of CT consist of poor soft tissue contrast and ionizing radiation [1], while the advantages are distortion-f...

Rhabdomyosarcoma is the most common soft tissue malignancy of childhood, but may occur extremely rarely in the neonatal period. There are only a few reports of rhabdomyosarcoma in neonates. Although, it may arise anywhere in the body, the head and neck, and genitourinary regions are the most frequent sites. Truncal and chest wall rhabdomyosarcoma is relatively rare occurrence. We report a neona...

Antibodies raised in heterologous species against tumorassociated antigens such as ferritin and carcinoembryonic antigen may be utilized in diagnostic scanning and in cancer therapy. The radiolabeled (131I)antibodies have a mean effec tive half-life of 3 days. The tumor-bearing regions retain activity which was associated with objective evidence of remission in primary hepatic cancers. Major or...

The most common gastrointestinal involvement in neurofibromatosis is due to tumoral lesions which may present with gastrointestinal bleeding or obstruction. We report a case of concurrent ulcerative colitis and neurofibromatosis.A 39 year-old woman, known case of neurofibromatosis, was admitted to our department with complaint of chronic bloody diarrhea. After thorough clinical examination and ...