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Is acquired arterial-venous fistula related to Kaposi sarcoma?
(Elsevier Espana S.L., 2017)
Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a rare inflammatory neoplasia originating from angiogenic vascular endothelial cells.1 Human herpes virus-8 (HHV-8) is considered as a possible cause. KS is often observed in immunocompromised ...
Evaluation of ghrelin levels and endothelial functions in patients with coronary slow flow phenomenon
(Akademiai Kiado Rt., 2017)
Background: Ghrelin has recently been reported to have beneficial effects on cardiac contractile functions and coronary blood flow. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the role of ghrelin in the pathogenesis ...
A rare complication of percutaneous coronary intervention: Coronary pseudoaneurysm formation
(Akademiai Kiado Rt., 2017)
Coronary pseudoaneurysms (CPAs) are rare complications developed after percutaneous coronary interventions. They may cause stent thrombosis, distal embolization, and coronary rupture leading to cardiac tamponade. Therefore, ...
Management of an acute ischemic stroke during thrombolytic treatment in a pregnant patient with prosthetic valve thrombosis
(Akademiai Kiado Rt., 2017)
Prosthetic valve thrombosis (PVT) is a life-threatening complication in pregnant women with mechanical prosthetic heart valves. Thrombolytic therapy (TT) has evolved as an effective treatment alternative to surgery, which ...
How to image individual pulmonary veins with transthoracic echocardiography
(Turkish Society of Cardiology, 2017)
Although Doppler analysis of pulmonary veins (PVs) is crucial in the assessment of cardiac hemodynamics, there is controversy regarding individual anatomical PV imaging with transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). This report ...
Utility of biochemical markers and RVD/LVD ratio in acute pulmonary embolism risk classification in Emergency Department
(2017)
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine the efficacy of troponin I, D-dimer, and lactate levels and right ventricular diameter (RVD)/left ventricular diameter (LVD) ratio on pulmonary computed tomography angiography (PCTA) in the ...
Diagnostic value of copeptin in acute myocardial infarction
(2017)
PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total of 160 cases were enrolled in the study. All were over 18 years of age, and consisted of 54 non-ST elevation MI (NSTEMI), 54 ST segment elevation MI (STEMI), and 52 healthy subjects (controls). ...
Paratesticular rhabdomyosarcoma associated with tuberculosis
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
We report a 16-year-old male patient diagnosed with paratesticular rhabdomyosarcoma and mediastinal tuberculous lymphadenitis. The differential diagnosis between high or early stage of rhabdomyosarcoma and tuberculosis ...
Complementary role of cardiac computed tomography to transesophageal echocardiography in the evaluation of prosthetic valve dysfunction
(Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2017)
Dear Editor,
We have read with great interest the article by Suh et al. describingtheadded value of cardiaccomputed tomography(CT) in theevaluationof pannus overgrowth on mechanical prosthetic valves[1]. Cardiac CThas a ...
Coexistence of three malignancies: Two different lung cancers synchronous with lymphoma
(İstanbul Tıp Fakültesi, 2017)
Epithelial tumors synchronous with hematologic malignancies are very rare. The hystopathologic type and stage of synchronous tumors are very important for prognosis. A 77-year-old male patient was diagnosed with lymphoma ...