Venous thromboembolic disease and prophylaxis are subjects of controversy in orthopaedic surgery. Venous thromboembolism is a major risk in patients undergoing total hip and knee arthroplasty as well as repair of a hip fracture. In addition, patients sustaining major orthopaedic trauma including spinal cord injury as well as patients undergoing treatment of various other musculoskeletal conditi...

rectus sheath hematoma usually occurs unilateral but rare cases of bilateral hematoma have been reported. herein we report the first case of spontaneous bilateral rectus sheath hematoma in the kidney transplanted patient.

cardiac surgery has its roots in the groundbreaking work by Blomberg et al.1–4 Following this examination of the effect of TEA on patients with coronary artery disease, others including this author were enthused to apply these findings to patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Throughout the 90’s, additional work was done to document the role of TEA in cardiac surgery. The major impediment to bro...

Prostacyclin analogs therapy has been associated with development of thrombocytopenia. Little is known whether this treatment increases the risk of intracranial hemorrhage in pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH) patients. We queried the Cleveland Clinic billing database to identify cases of nontraumatic sudural hematoma (SDH) in patients with PAH. We identified those individuals who were receivi...

Endovascular procedures are becoming the standard type of care for the management of hemodialysis vascular access dysfunction. As with any type of medical procedure, these techniques can result in procedure-related complications, although the expected number of complications is low. The clinical extent of these complications varies from case to case. Management of these cases depends on the cli...

The authors report the case of an elderly woman assessed for dyspnea and right costal margin pain, whose chest radiography demonstrated opacity simulating pulmonary lesion, and computed tomography revealed the vascular origin of the condition. Acute aortic syndrome due to ruptured atheromatous plaque penetrating through the elastic lamina in association with aortic hematoma and aneurysm is a re...

A 57-year-old male patient was admitted to our center because of a cystic mass on the lower portion of the right major fissure that was found incidentally by chest X-ray. He did not have a history of trauma or anticoagulant use. The lesion was removed by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. Pathological examination revealed an organizing pulmonary hematoma without any complications, and a foll...

A 73-yr-old male with atrial fibrillation presented for pulmonary vein mapping and isolation. Following uneventful tracheal intubation, femoral vein catheters and a 7-Fr right internal jugular vein (IJV) catheter were placed with ultrasound guidance. After the seven-hour procedure, a large right neck hematoma was apparent. Ultrasound examination showed no compromise of the IJV or carotid artery...