AORTIC COARCATATION IN ADULTS : STILL A LATE DIAGNOSIS

Late lumen loss in thoracic aortic end graft after endovascular procedure of a traumatic pseudoaneurysm

We report the case of a 23-year-old woman who died due to endograft stenosis 20 months after thoracic endovascular aortic repair. The patient presented with the pseudocoarctation syndrome. Although angioplasty of stenosis endograft was successfully performed, severe metabolic complications were lethal.

Late Still Equals Large

ly large by rule, independent of specific niches and behaviors – we struggled to account for it in terms of ‘developmental constraints’ and ‘spandrels’. Now, we attempt to understand the conserved pattern of allometric scaling as a substrate for ‘evolvability’. That is, we investigate what features such a conserved plan might afford for graceful scaling and facilitated variability (that is, gen...

Surgical treatment of aortic coarctation in adults: Still an open question?

Cervicofacial actinomycosis: still a difficult differential diagnosis.

Cervicofacial actinomycosis, a rare chronic infectious disease, is, however, an important clinical entity, due to the difficulties involved, still today, in its diagnosis. Following personal experience in a case referred to our Department, and in agreement with reports in the literature, attention is drawn to the presenting clinical manifestations, stressing that these are often confusing since...

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: still a morphological diagnosis.

he fulminant hemophagocytic syndromes, as recently defined by Cline, are aggressive and often fatal disorders, most frequent in children but occurring in all ages, that are characterized by fever, systemic symptoms, jaundice, multiple organ failure, coagulopathy, and phagocytosis of blood elements with cytopenias. Death may occur in up to 40% of cases. A distinction is generally made between fa...