A 55 year old man with a left ventricular aneurysm, secondary to a previous myocardial infarction, was hospitalized due to a Salmonella virchow bacteraemia. During a 3-week hospital course he was persistently bacteraemic and febrile despite antibiotic treatment. Gallium isotope scanning and 2-D-echocardiography were helpful in demonstrating the presence of an infected false aneurysm at the site...

Aortopulmonary fistula is an uncommon but often fatal condition resulting as a late complication of an aortic aneurysm. The most common cause is erosion of a false aneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta into the pulmonary artery, resulting in the development of a left-to-right shunt and leading to acute pulmonary edema and right heart failure. We report an our experience with aortopulmonary ...

We examined ACoA patients regarding their susceptibility to a range of false memory phenomena. We targeted provoked confabulation, false recall and false recognition in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott-paradigm (DRM-paradigm) as well as false recognition in a mirror reading task. ACoA patients produced more provoked confabulations and more false recognition in mirror reading than comparison subject...

We report three cases of false aneurysm involving the popliteal artery or one of its branches following total knee replacement. Two of them developed after primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and the third one after a revision TKA. False aneurysm is a rare complication of TKA. The main symptom is generally a painful pulsatile mass which develops postoperatively but our cases occurred with thr...

A case is reported in which the measurement of compartment pressures using a blood pressure transducer (Matsen, Winquist and Krugmire 1980) provided the diagnosis of arterial false aneurysm as the cause of a compartment syndrome. Case report. An 18-year-old man gave a history of striking the ulnar border of his left forearm against a wardrobe. He sustained a small cut which was sutured, but one...