A 39-year-old man was admitted to the hospital for altered mental status. One week prior to the admission, the patient had a moped accident. His past medical history was remarkable for polysubstance ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in individuals over the age of 50 years. We report a case of CNV secondary to septic emboli from ...

The purpose of this study was to present 11 patients operated on owing to rare forms of peripheral arterial embolism at the Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases of the Serbian Clinical Center over a ...

Vascular. 2007;15(4):215-220. Prompt diagnosis and treatment are of paramount importance because if mycotic aneurysms are left untreated, they carry high percentages of morbidity and mortality owing ...

SAN ANTONIO -- In response to the opioid epidemic, a primer to treating infective endocarditis (IE) specifically related to drug use was released by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). A workforce ...

Sepsis and septic shock appear to be more common than heart attacks or pulmonary blood clots among patients having general surgery, and the death rate for patients with septic shock is approximately ...

A previously healthy 35-year-old man was brought to the emergency department by his family because they were concerned that he was confused. He had experienced five days of flu-like symptoms with ...

A teen in Canada developed the rare, life-threatening Lemierre syndrome, or the "forgotten disease," following sepsis from mandibular osteomyelitis after third-molar extractions. The case report was ...

TCT 560: A Challenging PCI in a Thrombotic Aberrant Coronary in The Setting of a Myocardial Infarction Further Complicated by no Flow/Slow Flow and Inadvertent Wire Loss After Ostial Stenting Receive ...

A retrospective chart review was performed on 59 patients found on routine cancer staging CT scans to have unsuspected PE. Information on patient demographics, malignancy characteristics, risk factors ...