A pregnant woman with pneumomediastinum after tooth treatment

A Pregnant Woman with Pneumomediastinum after Tooth Treatment

Dear Editor, A 35‐year‐old pregnant woman experienced right inferior molar pain and underwent dental treatment (including drill and laser treatment) under local anesthesia using lidocaine at 30 weeks of gestation. After this treatment, she felt face and neck swelling with dyspnea. She was transferred to our department by ambulance due to the suspicion of an anaphylactic reaction. Her medical an...

A Pregnant Woman with Factor V Deficiency

Asymptomatic pneumomediastinum after wisdom tooth extraction.

gammagraphy may be normal or show multiple small, peripheral repletion defects. The diagnosis of pulmonary tumor embolism requires finding tumor cells in the lung vasculature. Cervical cancer is the second most frequent cause of morbidity and mortality related with cancer among women in developing countries: 371,200 new cases each year, with a 50% mortality rate. The incidence of invasive cervi...

Preoperative Emboli in a Pregnant Woman with Myxoma

The left atrium is the most common location of myxomas, which are benign tumors. Only a few cases of myxomas in pregnancies have been reported. Our thorough medical literature search showed only 17 reported cases in the course of pregnancy. Myxomas during pregnancy and in the preterm period constitute a serious phenomenon that can mimic an early sign of a life-threatening pathology like severe ...

Chemotherapy treatment of a pregnant woman with progressive gastric cancer.

We herein describe a rare case of gastric cancer that was treated with chemotherapy during pregnancy. A woman in her thirty's at 23 weeks of gestation was admitted to the hospital with epigastralgia and left cervical lymph node swelling. She had been previously diagnosed with metastatic adenocarcinoma at another hospital. Findings from a CT scan and esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed progressi...