Gastric Ischemia as a Rare Cause of Hematemesis

Gastric Ischemia as a Rare Cause of Hematemesis

A 59-year-old woman with a past medical history significant for anxiety and acid reflux presented to the hospital with acute-onset hematemesis after eating 2-day-old Chinese food. The patient did not drink alcohol or use illicit drugs. She had no recorded episodes of hypotension or syncope and no history of vasculopathy or vasculitis. On admission, she was afebrile with normal vital signs. The ...

Foregut Duplication Cyst as a Rare Cause of Hematemesis: A Case Report

Dieulafoy Gastric Lesion: An Unusual Cause of Pediatric Hematemesis

Dieulafoy lesion is a vascular anomaly predominantly found in the stomach, which represents a rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding and life-threatening haemorrhages in pediatric age with few cases reported in the literature. We experienced a 7-year-old previously healthy boy with hematemesis endoscopically diagnosed and successfully treated for a Dieulafoy lesion in the stomach. This case re...

Infective endocarditis as a rare cause for acute limb ischemia.

INTRODUCTION Infective endocarditis (IE) occurs at a rate of approximately 1–7/100 000 people per year, and has a high morbidity and mortality despite advances in antibiotic and surgical treatments. [1,2] Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE), in particular, remains an infrequent but serious complication of cardiac valvular replacement. [3] Systemic embolism occurs in 22%–50% of IE patients; embo...

A rare cause of subendocardial ischemia.

Figure 1 Transthoracic echocardiography showing: (A) mechanical aortic valve (21-mm Medtronic with mild regurgitation, possibly periprosthetic; (B) elevated transvalvular gradients (maximum 51 mmHg and mean 24 mmHg); acceleration time 89 ms, left ventricular outflow tract velocity time integral/aortic velocity time integral 0.29 and area index 0.83 cm/m, suggestive of mismatch and/or increased ...