We report a case of a 42-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus and chronic kidney disease stage 5 undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, presenting asthenia, dizziness, abdominal pain and small efforts dyspnea. After a complete physical and clinical examination, including laboratory tests, esophagogastroduodenal endoscopy and gastric lesions biopsy, she was diagnosed w...

Seminiferous tubular ectasia at the level of the mediastinum testis is a recently recognized rare benign condition. It is often bilateral, and usually occurs in elderly men. It is commonly associated with epididymal abnormalities (e.g. spermatocele, epididymal cysts or epididymitis), and it shares a common location (within the mediastinum testis) with cystic dysplasia of the testis and testicul...

PURPOSE To report a case of unilateral ectasia developing after LASIK in a patient with abnormal topography but normal tomographic indices. METHODS Case report and literature review. RESULTS A patient was treated bilaterally for myopia using LASIK. Five years and 5 months postoperatively, unilateral ectasia in the right eye was diagnosed. Preoperatively, anterior curvature (Placido) map of ...

Corneal ectasia is a rare complication involving the visual function. The disease starts sometimes insidiously with a long delay before clinical presentation; it is irreversible with pejorative prognosis (it may be an indication for a corneal graft). These characteristics make it a dreaded complication and give it an adverse and pernicious dimension. It can be caused by thermal burn. We report ...

The term coronary ectasia is reserved to describe a diffuse dilatation of coronary artery segments that have a diameter that exceeds the size of normal adjacent coronary segments by 1.5 times. The occurrence of coronary artery ectasia (CAE) ranges from 3% to 8% in the group of patients undergoing coronary computed tomography angiography. The CAE is associated with traditional risk factors and o...

PURPOSE To report an interesting case of concomitant bilateral Terrien's marginal degeneration-like corneal ectasia and posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy in a young man with quiescent rheumatoid arthritis. CASE REPORT A 24-year-old man with history of rheumatoid arthritis presented with bilateral decreased vision since four years ago. Slit lamp examination revealed bilateral circumfere...

Coronary artery ectasia (CAE) is an abnormality of the coronary anatomy and might be a variant of the Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). The CAE can cause angina pectoris and even MI with vasospasm, dissection, or thrombus in patients without CAD. Isolated CAE is defined as CAE without significant coronary artery stenosis. The mechanisms responsible for ectasia formation are not clearly known. Howe...

Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a genetic disorder of connective tissue, characterized by variable clinical features and multisystem complications. The anesthetic management during delivery is debated. Regional anesthesia has been used with success during cesarean delivery, but in some MFS patients there is a probability of erratic and inadequate spread of intrathecal local anesthetics as a result of ...

The development of corneal ectasia has been recognized as a complication after LASIK since the first case report from Seiler and Quurke in the late 1990s. The clinical picture of iatrogenic corneal ectasia resembles that of progressive keratoconus with reduced corneal biomechanical strength, increasing central corneal steepness, irregular refractive errors, and decreasing visual acuity. Since t...

We attempted combined use of angioscopy and intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS) to localize the coronary ostia and determine the aortic segment to be replaced in patients with annuloaortic ectasia, because these preoperative informations are important for selection of an appropriate technique for reconstructing the coronary artery, to prevent complications, and also to postoperative follow-up....