INTRODUCTION Acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) is an abdominal-vascular emergency which is rare and has high mortality rates (60-80 %) due to late diagnosis (1-3). Although it is known that extravascular reasons like intestinal intussusception, volvulus, strangulated hernias and obstructions can cause intestinal gangrene, these are rarely the cause of AMI (1). MATERIALS AND METHODS In this stud...

Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a rare manifestation of systemic large vessel vasculitis which aVects predominantly the aorta and its main branches, but often remains unrecognised owing to delayed diagnosis and non-characteristic clinical features. Sarcoidosis, too, is a systemic inflammatory disease which can aVect virtually any organ system. Reports about the coincidence of both diseases have appe...

Transection of the brachial artery associated with blunt trauma, such as a closed elbow dislocation, is rare phenomenon (1Ayel J.E. Bonnevialle N. Lafosse J.M. Pidhorz L. Al Homsy M. Mansat P. et al.Acute dislocation arterial rupture. Analysis nine cases.Orthop Traumatol Surg Res. 2009 Sep; 95: 343-351https://doi.org/10.1016/j.otsr.2009.04.013Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (35) Google Sch...

A relationship between Takayasu arteritis (TA) and positive antiphospholipid antibody states has been pointed out, but patients with TA complicated with antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) are rare. Here we report the case of a 17-year-old Japanese man diagnosed with TA based on pulselessness of the left brachial artery, discrepancy of blood pressure between the upper extremities, and arte...