The authors report the case of a 3-month-old boy with hair-thread tourniquet syndrome, seen just distal to the MP joint on the right fourth toe. The patient was brought to the hospital with a history of irritability and weeping. On examination there was swelling, ecchymosis and a hair fibre was found wrapped around his right fourth toe. After the hair fibre was removed there was a fast healing ...

Hair toe tourniquet syndrome (HTTS) is an uncommon pediatric condition occurring when the toe is circumferentially strangulated by human hair or fibers. An 8-week-old little girl was admitted to the Emergency Department because of the worsening swelling in the right second and third toes, which had been been previously treated with a local antibiotic thinking of an infection. An unrecognized HT...

BACKGROUND We examined toe-spreading ability in subjects with chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) to test the hypothesis that subjects with CPPS could have deficiencies in lower extremity functions innervated by sacral spinal roots. METHODS Seventy two subjects with CPPS and 98 volunteer controls were examined as part of a larger study on CPPS. All the subjects underwent a detailed urologic a...

The presence of history of redness and swelling of toe in an infant without history of trauma is typical of hair threat tourniquet syndrome. The treatment simply involves incision and removal of hair fibers. Physicians should be aware of this syndrome because early diagnosis and treatment avoid serious complications.

Cholesterol embolization syndrome refers to embolization of the contents of an atherosclerotic plaque (primarily cholesterol crystals) from a proximal large-caliber artery to distal small to medium arteries causing end-organ damage by mechanical plugging and an inflammatory response. Synonyms used in the medical literature include atheromatous embolization, cholesterol crystal embolization, and...

Skin scrapings were taken from both 4th toe webs regardless of the presence or absence of any lesion. These were cultured on Sabouraud’s dextrose and blood agar media. Grain stain and lactophenol cotton blue stain were also obtained. Venous blood for blood sugar and HbA1c was also extracted. HbA1c was considered as a measure of control. Levels < 7% were considered good control, 7.1-9.5 % fair c...