INTRODUCTION Primary segmental infarction of the greater omentum is an infrequent cause for right lower quadrant pain. The exact aetiology is unknown and the right side is more commonly involved. It usually presents like acute appendicitis and the diagnosis is made during exploration. CASE REPORT We report such a case which was diagnosed and managed by laparoscopy. A 27-year-old male presente...

Acute renal infarction is a well known, although relatively unfrequent, cause of flank pain resistant to administration of spasmolytic and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. We present an original case of a 41-year-old man, complaining of acute severe left flank pain, resistant to common analgesic therapy, who was diagnosed of segmental renal infarction of a branch of left renal artery. Path...

infarction is a rare condition. Infarction of the omentum causes localized acute abdominal pain and can therefore mimic other surgical emergencies. There is little information on this condition to be found in the radiological literature, because it is not usually diagnosed until surgical intervention, being previously diagnosed as acute appendicitis or acute cholecystitis (1, 2). There are only...

To assess the accuracy of phased-array two-dimensional echocardiography in detecting, localizing and quantifying myocardial injury in man, the relationship of two-dimensional echocardiographic wall motion abnormalities to morphologic evidence of myocardial infarction was evaluated in 20 autopsied patients. Comparisons were made between independent two-dimensional echocardiographic readings of l...

Renal infarction is a rare clinical problem and it is frequently misdiagnosed because of the nonspecificity of its symptoms. We present two cases of renal infarction with two different etiologies. The first case was a 43-year-old male who attended the emergency department for pain in the left flank. A contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomography scan was performed due to the persistent pain,...

BACKGROUND Wall motion score at dobutamine stress echocardiography is an independent predictor of mortality. We sought to determine whether quantification of DSE by strain rate imaging was incremental to wall motion score for predicting outcome. METHODS AND RESULTS In 646 patients undergoing dobutamine stress echocardiography for the evaluation of known or suspected coronary disease, customiz...

INTRODUCTION Due to recent advances in imaging diagnostic techniques, there are an increasing number of case reports of segmental arterial mediolysis. However, there are only a limited number of reports on segmental arterial mediolysis-related abnormalities of abdominal organs other than the intestine. This report describes a case of segmental arterial mediolysis accompanied by abnormalities of...

BACKGROUND The mechanisms of ventricular enlargement and dysfunction during postinfarct remodeling remain largely unknown. Although global left ventricular architectural changes after myocardial infarction are well documented, differences in function between adjacent and remote noninfarcted myocardium during left ventricular remodeling have not been investigated. These functional differences ma...