A rare cause of recurrent cerebral emboli despite oral anticoagulation

A Rare Cause of Recurrent Oral Lesions: Chediak-Higashi Syndrome

a rare cause of recurrent abdominal pain

a 30-year-old man presented with a nine-months history of repetitive abdominal pain simulating dyspepsia.  nine months before presentation, a local physician saw him, and he performed upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for him, and was diagnosed as a case of mild gastritis with oral omeprazole, but without any benefit. so the patient was seen at another center and was evaluated by abdominal compu...

Tumor Emboli: A Rare Cause of Acute Pulmonary Hypertension.

A 70-year old man with stage IV prostate cancer presented to our hospital with 10 days of progressive shortness of breath. He was tachycardic, tachypneic, and mildly hypoxemic. Initial blood counts, chemistry, and troponin were normal. An electrocardiogram showed sinus tachycardia without conduction or ischemic changes. A chest x-ray study was unremarkable. The patient was diagnosed with metast...

Left Atrium Papillary Fibroelastomas: A Cause of Cerebral Emboli

Papillary fibroelastomas are cardiac benign tumours. Among the benign cardiac tumor, papillary fibroelastomas are reported second after myxomas. Most often diagnosed incidentally, papillary fibroelastomas may embolize to cerebral circulation. Valvular locations are predominant; location in left atrium is rare. In this paper, we present a case of papillary fibroelastoma located in left atrium wi...

A Rare Cause of Recurrent Abdominal Pain

A 30-year-old man presented with a nine-months history of repetitive abdominal pain simulating dyspepsia. Nine months before presentation, a local physician saw him, and he performed upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for him, and was diagnosed as a case of mild gastritis with oral omeprazole, but without any benefit. So the patient was seen at another center and was evaluated by abdominal comput...