Pulseless cardiomyopathy.

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy in a 20-year-old woman with systemic sclerosis.

A 20-year-old Japanese woman with systemic sclerosis was evaluated for the progressive aggravation of chest pain, palpitations and dyspnea. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging revealed diffuse wall thinning, segmental dyskinesis and late gadolinium enhancement of the right ventricular (RV) myocardium. Cardiac catheterization demonstrated no pulmonary hypertension. 24-hour electrocardiography mon...

Application of ultrasound in pulseless electrical activity (PEA) cardiac arrest

A Sudden Change of Heart: A Case of Rapidly Reversed Stress Cardiomyopathy in a Critically Ill Patient

We report the case of a 79-year-old woman who presented to our hospital for elective removal of an infratentorial meningioma and suffered a periprocedural cardiac arrest. Shortly after uncomplicated induction of anesthesia prior to the surgery, the patient became hypotensive and bradycardic, culminating ultimately in a cardiac arrest with pulseless electrical activity. Return of spontaneous cir...

Pink Pulseless hand – Evaluation and Decision making: Is there a Consensus?

Background: The standard of care for the initial treatment of pulseless supracondylar fracture of the humerus is emergency closed reduction and percutaneous pin stabilization. Some of these patients remain pulseless even after closed reduction and pin fixation with a well perfused hand. The management of this so-called pink pulseless hand still remains controversial. The options described in th...

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: getting beyond the tip of the iceberg.

Sudden Cardiac Death: The Scope Sudden cardiac death (SCD), which is responsible for approximately 300 000 deaths in the United States, refers to an unexpected death from a cardiovascular cause in a person with or without preexisting heart disease. Most studies include cases that are associated with death occurring within 1 hour of an acute change in clinical status or an unexpected death that ...