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Stents*

Left ventricular diverticulum is rare cardiac malformation;fewer than 30 cases have been reported in the world. We present a case of left ventricular diverticulum with chest pain suggested unstable angina. Myocardial rupture of this case was occured during cardiac catherization. patient was recovered and discharged. Relevant literature was also reviewed.
Angina, Unstable ; Chest Pain ; Diverticulum* ; Humans ; Rupture

BACKGROUND: Despite general agreement as to the safety and immediate success of percutaneous iliac angioplasty, its long-term efficacy remains subjects to debate and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty(PTA) induced dissection in the iliac artery may also lead to urgent surgery although frequency of this complication is not clearly stated in the literature. The relatively early result with the use of the Palmaz balloon-expandable intraluminal stent(BEIS) for treating atherosclerotic iliac artery and PTA-induced iliac artery dissections strongly suggest that Palmaz BEIS has its important role for limitations of PTA.It is generally accepted that indications for stent placement are (a) inadequate immediate postangioplasty response (b) restenosis after previous iliac balloon angioplasty, and (c) total iliac artery occlusion. METHODS: We report the successful implantation of Palmaz BEIS at right common iliac artery in a patients suffered from severe claudication. Previously the patients received PTA two times. First PTA resulted in intimal dissection and restenosis occurred after successful second PTA. RESULTS: After successful implantation of Palmaz BEIS, pressure gradients across the lesion and blood flow pattern were nearly normalized. The patients was discharged without symptom and was in good condition after 4 months follow-up. CONCLUSION: According to our this limited experience and other reports, stent placement in valuable adjunct in the management of iliac artery disease.
Angioplasty ; Angioplasty, Balloon ; Constriction, Pathologic* ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Iliac Artery* ; Stents*

Bacterial endocarditis is a disease with protean manifestations whose presentation has recently changed greatly. Right-sided endocarditis associated with congenital heart lesions is now relatively less common. Patients with ventricular septal defect are at risk for right-sided endocarditis, but its incidence is low in children and adolescents. The organism is frequently a staphylococcus and the clinical course is dominated by septic pulmonary infarction and septicemia. We reported two cases of pulmonic vegetation and pulmonary infarction associated VSD with brief review of literature.
Adolescent ; Child ; Endocarditis ; Endocarditis, Bacterial ; Heart ; Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular ; Humans ; Incidence ; Pulmonary Infarction* ; Sepsis ; Staphylococcus

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Life Style* ; Prostatism*

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty(PTA) was first described by Dotter and Jukins in 1964 and subsequently modified by Gruentzig and Hoff in 1974. PTA has proved a safe and effective treatment for focal atherosclerotic disease of the aorta and its major extremity branches. The complications of PTA of the peripheral vessels are less frequent and less serve than those associated with the comparable surgical procedure. Intestinal angina is a clinical syndrome compromising postprandial abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss, and eventually fear of eating. The syndrome is thought to be due to visceral ischemia, with stenosis or occlusion of the three visceral arteries being necessary for the syndrome to occur. Although the first report of mesenteric PTA appeared in 1980, the series of PTA with stenting of the visceral arteris reported in the literature have been small or included limited follow-up. We report a case of a intestinal angina due to superior mesenteric arterial stenosis. A 69-year-old male complained of serve postprandial pain, chronic diarrhea for 1 year. PTA with stening in superior mesenteric artery results in recannulation of obstructed artery and relief of symptom.
Abdominal Pain ; Aged ; Angioplasty* ; Aorta ; Arteries ; Chronic Pain ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Diarrhea ; Eating ; Extremities ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Ischemia ; Male ; Mesenteric Artery, Superior ; Nausea ; Stents* ; Vomiting ; Weight Loss

We report herein a case of lymphomatoid papulosis in a 23-year-old female who had recurrent erythematous pinhead to pea sized papules and nodules on the both inner thighs and forearms for 4 years. Some lesions showed central hemorrhagic necrosis or scale formation. Individual lesions persisted for several months and showed spontaneous regression leaving pigmentation or depigmented atrophic scar. Histopathologically, there was marked cell infiltration, especially in the dermoepiderrnal junction and perivascular area. Infiltraled cells consisted of sorne ncutrophils and numerous atypical cells that had variable sized and irregular shaped nuclei. Electronmicroscopically, some atypical cells had cerebriform nuclei with marked peripheral condensation of chromatin and cytoplasm contained a few organelles, many polyribosomes and some dense bodies.
Chromatin ; Cicatrix ; Cytoplasm ; Female ; Forearm ; Humans ; Lymphomatoid Papulosis* ; Necrosis ; Organelles ; Peas ; Pigmentation ; Polyribosomes ; Thigh ; Young Adult

PURPOSE: This study was designed to evaluate usefulness of intravenous digital subtraction angiography (IV-DSA) in detection of peripheral arterial obstructive disease(PAOD) and in follow-up of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty(PTA). MATERIALS AND METHODS: 35 Patients who had clinical symptoms and signs of compromised lower extremity perfusion, was screened with IV-DSA and then performed confirmative conventional angiography. We obtained sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of IV-DSA by comparing the findings of IV-DSA with those of conventional angiography. 21 patients who had been performed successful PTA, were foliowed-up with IV-DSA in 3, 6, 12months. We studied patency rate and factors that influenced restenosis. RESULTS: The sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of IV-DSA were 100%, 97%, 97% in lilac artery, 92%, 96%, 93% in femoropopliteal artery, 85%, 75%, 70% in proximal tibioperoneal artery retrospectively. IV-DSA follow up after PTA showed patency rate of 67% in first 3month, 67% in 2nd 3month, 60% in next 6month. Longer length and more irregular surface of the stenotic site, and higher incidence of run-off of vessel and of residual stenosis in the patients with restenosis were noted. CONCLUSION: High sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of IV-DSA in evaluating PAOD suggest that IV-DSA is useful in screening, planning therapy and following up after PTA.
Angiography ; Angiography, Digital Subtraction ; Arterial Occlusive Diseases* ; Arteries ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Incidence ; Lower Extremity ; Mass Screening ; Perfusion ; Retrospective Studies ; Sensitivity and Specificity

A 2-month-old female infant presented with a bluish-black, flat, hairy patch, 1.2cm in diameter, on the posterior aspect of her neck since birth. Histologic sections from the lesion showed numerous diffusely scattered dermal melanocytes throughout the dermis. The histopathologic and clinical findings were not fully oonsistent with any other known dermal melanocytosis. The diagnosis of “hairy blue nevus” was proposed for this unique lesion.
Dermis ; Diagnosis ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Melanocytes ; Neck ; Nevus, Blue* ; Parturition